We've had the best experiences and some bad experiences with HC's. In our recent bad experience.....With Gould everything looked good coming in (great recruiter, attitude, energy, resume), but it never translated into W's.
One thing Marion has that Gould didn't was the immediate impact the portal can make.
Like I said previously, Marion has a tall task getting all these guys settled in, on the same page, and doing what they are supposed to do on and off the field in a super short amount of time. This would be a masterclass in motivation and leadership.
This was a cool, but weird "clickbaity" write up... Prepare yourselves Aggies, I am telling you there is real substance to the Sac12 movement. Heads will spin when the announcement is made. And it's gonna be insane to see a FBS (MWC) v. FBS (PAC) Causeway Classic in the next five years.
I don’t mean this as a insult to Sac but if the Pac12 is having to grab a FCS school to be fill out it’s football obligation, they are a bit desperate. Any FCS school.
Late to the party but wanted to chime in on the Rec Hall / Pavilion renovations.
We had the opportunity to turn the joint into more of a Maples Pavilion type facility and totally blew it. Maples isn’t as elongated along the length of the court but still has a similar setup with the lower level separated from loge and upper levels which are accessible by the same concourse.
The upper pull-out seats with ginormous gaps between sections was a horrible oversight and looks half-hearted (I’d use another word, but…). Yes there are emergency exits up there but nobody clearly asked the question as to how wide and what kind of vertical clearance they required; that would have allowed the seats, if they still needed to be pull-outs, to maintain horizontal connectivity and not look temporary.
Agreed on the center-hung scoreboard, but at least the video board on the one end appears from a distance to be better than the boards that were previously attached in the corners.