re: Texas Aggie Baseball - 2014 Edition

Please stop blaming Hyman for anything and everything. It's annoying and really devolves the conversation to whining.

I don't envy Hyman's job. Whatever "issue" you have with him is mostly because you are unable or unwilling to grasp what he's dealing with. I don't fault you for that, because fans rarely do, but it's not as easy as you seem to think it is to manage an AD.

We have a frickton of boosters and personalities that all want their way. As much as you think all those people agree all the time, they just don't. This is not a situation of 2-3 bosses, it's like 30 that don't even necessarily talk to each other. And it's often a different 30 depending on the sport. Dealing with all this is navigating a minefield daily and simplifying that to black and white is naive.

Here's a perfect example: Listen to John Bethancourt's take on our coaching staff at about 0:35 of this vid and tell me he sounds like a pot banger. Should Hyman just tell him to go pound sand? Obviously he's got to talk to and build a monetary consensus among these guys. Some are ready for a change. Others aren't. Some are on the fence and will accept either direction. But pretty much all of them want to be coddled and have their opinion be heard. Then he's got to weigh the situation based on what's best for the program (which includes a ton of factors like money, who is available and interested, and the media backlash of firing a guy with 8 straight post-season appearances).

Once that's been done, he's got to go to the press and sell that point of view, whether he agrees or not. Then the portion of the fanbase that disagrees spends the next year demonizing him for it and he has to just take it because there is zero doubt that saying something negative about one of our programs would be bad for that program. You relentlessly back the guy til the day you fire him. This is why pretty much every AD in history is hated by their fanbase.