I never imagined this would be possible.

Byrne stepped on his pecker with the SEC.

Hyman should have never been hired, but he was, because our power brokers suck as much as they get it right (we need one mega donor instead of a gaggle of BMA's).

I think we got it right this time.

Good article by Olin, and good quotes from the new AD.

Good article. I'd mostly ignored the Hyman BS, but reading that shite pissed me off. I don't know how one gets to that position and shows such garbage leadership.

It was beyond a leadership issue. He was the primary leader of the A&M AD. It was a downright breach of his fiduciary duty.

What he did is similar to Muhtar Kent hanging out with Indra Nooyi drinking a Pepsi, or
Rex Tillerson hanging out with Bob Dudley at a corporate picnic, wearing a PB polo and posing for photo ops. Hyman should have been fired IMMEDIATELY!

Isn't Hyman a "great leader" according to your contacts?

No

So, it sounds like there's been an adjustment in the chain of command where Sumlin is concerned? I've been reading that he's now directly answerable to the AD. Is this info legit?

Most boosters considered Hyman to be impersonal and distant. He did very little to create a buffer between boosters and coaches. That's both good and bad. The individual coaches were forced to work with boosters rather than a boss, but that also creates a better understanding between needs and money. He also didn't have coaches report directly to him (their was an AAD middle man) so he didn't have a very close relationship with them either. So all and all, he was considered quite aloof.

He was liked inside the department for many of the same reasons. He mostly left people alone to do their jobs instead of micro-managing (which was the complaint around Byrne). So it was very much a mixed bag, which it always is. I haven't read Olin's article. It's probably fair as Olin is a good dude.

But what tends to happen when someone leaves is we hear all the bad and none of the good. Hyman created a professional organization and brought in people like Jason Cook and allowed them the freedom to do their job. That came with the bad. That's just how things usually are.

And to Roger's comment about Sumlin's contract extension, other than being the face of the AD, Hyman really wasn't making any decisions concerning football

Thanks, and that "genie" thing makes sense.

pretty much. Sumlin reported to regent Jim Wilson when he started. I'm not sure the exact hierarchy today but it doesn't really matter. People who write big fat checks pretty much make the decisions on things that get them to write big fat checks. America yo