re: Eric Hyman still partying

I hope that his forced retirement went something like...

"Manage this (crotch grab), you're fired!"

Personally I was pretty happy with the facilities built under his tenure and thought his decision to keep Childress and Kennedy has paid off. We could have done A LOT worse than Hyman. Clearly not enough of you remember the Wally Groff era.

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Clearly not enough of you remember the Wally Groff era.

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I remember his infamous (paraphrased) quote: "It doesn't matter what the record is as long as Kyle Field is full".

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Clearly not enough of you remember the Wally Groff era.

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Wally was part of the "first wave" of professional college athletic directors. Prior to the time that he became AD, the head football coach at a college doubled as the AD, like they do at high schools. Wally was an accountant moonlighting as AD before AD became a real job that people aspired to and trained for. The results were exactly what you'd expect. Hyman is supposedly a "professional" AD in an era when that's an actual job with known duties and expectations. Saying "he wasn't as bad as Wally" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement.