Article on former USC and current aTm AD Eric Hyman

I'm not his biggest fan either, scrooster.

Yea I know a lot of people dispose him do for the psl. Particularly becaus it went into effect in 09 after the recession was fully underway.

I also remember you talking about hyman nearly botching the land deal for the new baseball stadium

I'm Luke warm on him so far. Too short a sample size.

I would like him better if he would schedule someone with a pulse

The good for us?

He overpayed for Sumlin, THE move that saved our program the next five years.

The bad?

He would not allow a team vote to determine punishments so we are at disadvantage.

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Still an improvement over that pompous arse Byrne.

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He left some pretty funny voicemails though. Who does he think he is? The Lieutenant Governor?

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Yea I know a lot of people dispose him do for the psl. Particularly becaus it went into effect in 09 after the recession was fully underway.

I also remember you talking about hyman nearly botching the land deal for the new baseball stadium

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Hyman's philosophy almost upon arrival, and I took a ride with him in his dealer-supplied Lincoln out at the University Club on almost the first day he got here right after the Spurrier golf tourney ... his philosophy was made clear. He is a political person, wants everyone to love him, delegates the dirty stuff ... takes credit for victories and accomplishments of his subordinates. He will come into a new situation that is ripe for the picking and then muck it up, claim it is all wrong, restructure it and inevitably get it back to exactly where it was before he mucked-it up, if not worse ... then claim it as all his and put his mark on it while adding it to his resume.

As you mentioned Cockopotamus, the Carolina Stadium project is a fine example. Mike McGee left with it financed and shovel ready. Hyman promptly came in, changed contractors (which we are now regretting), almost screwed-up the land deal on the river with the Guignard family, stepped all over Ray Tanner's toes ... then, in the end, Hyman claims it as his from scratch. And that's just one example.

The PSLs thing, that wasn't the big deal with that asshat honestly, I mean the PSLs had to be done, they were inevitable. The big deal was him cutting back on the Band travel budget, on him cutting back on other budgets of support-programs integral to our Athletic Department, in order for him to shift money to his pet projects which were really his wife's pet projects.

And speaking of that bitch he is married to ... her involvement in the whole Garcia thing - regardless of what anyone might think of Garcia, she waaaay over-stepped her boundaries where the Garcia incident was concerned ... and personally, as old fashioned as I am when it comes to bratty kids giving lip service to their elders and needing their asses torn out of their sockets .... she got off light IMHO. And believe me, the Hymans knew it was time to get the helloutta town regardless of the contract extension Eric finagled while claiming his alma mater was coming after him in Chapel Hill a year earlier.

Which brings to light another issue with Hyman. Despite so many of us raising hell with our regents and BoTs when Hyman's contract was being renewed and he was getting his raise ... the BoTs still gave it to him because they didn't want to have to deal with Ray leaving his post as baseball skipper in a year in which we should have probably made it four in a row at the CWS. But despite all of that, after they received certain assurances from Hyman, they award him the raise and the extension ... and he turned around and screwed the ones that backed him. Now, they're all admitting they got screwed on the deal and one or two of them are gone or are going as a result - but still yet, Hyman proved right then and there he is not to be trusted.

He's not to be trusted on so many levels I've lost count.

On the other hand, he is effective on some things - and he knows how to budget and deal with BoTs and big boosters.

Buster needs to tread a little lighter around the football program.

Crossing Sumlin would be the one thing that would get him fired in a hurry.