Former Texas A&M AD throwing boosters/BOT under the bus on Kevin Sumlin deal

Ridiculous contract aside, Hyman might have been the worst AD that A&M has ever hired. It's not really a surprise to see him say something like that when he pretty much worked against A&M athletics best interests while employed.

These coaching contracts for unproven coaches are crazy - same with extensions.

Can't blame Sumlin for signing his name to it.

Hyman was not a good AD and I'm sure he's covering himself to some extent, but I don't doubt what he says. Fans who follow the program knew this to be true before he was ever around. If you want to know how a "sleeping giant" never wakes up and remains mediocre, how he describes our football program (which is what most boosters only care about) is how.

I hope our current AD or one down the line has the balls to stand up and try to change the way people think, even if it might cost him his job. Otherwise we will probably be stuck in the cycle we are in

“I learned this as a young, 33-year-old athletic director: VMI people are brilliant. They come to a meeting in a three-piece suit and they leave their brains at home. There are some schools that are more than that; A&M, to a certain extent, had more people like that. They would say things and do things that are mind-boggling.”

"There are some things that I felt because of my ethical standards I was not a good fit. I felt if I had to do it again, I would probably do a lot better job of researching it."

Basically saying A&M leadership is dumb and unethical.

Eric Hyman has absolutely NO ROOM to talk about anything involving A&M.

All you have to know is that this fricktard actively campaigned for another school (TCU) to get a national seed over the school he worked for while on the NCAA baseball selection committee.

He was an Athletic Director for 4 years and didn't hire or fire a single coach.

Oh, and let's not forget his comments to A&M fans upset that Billy Kennedy took a team that had been to the NCAA Tournament for 6 straight years and failed to make a single tournament for his first three seasons: First, before the season, he said that the expectation was "the postseason". Then, when Kennedy failed to make even the NIT in season 3, Hyman bought a bid into the CIB tournament (triggering a raise for himself in the process). Finally, he told fans that were livid about it, "you need to manage your expectations".



That having been said, Elaine Mendoza, Morris Foster, and Jim Wilson are 100% responsible for the current shite-show of a contract Sumlin has.

It's kind of fascinating to me how quick Texas fans are to show up on an A&M thread. Do you just sit around and refresh tRant all day waiting on something Aggie related to be posted? It's pretty sad.