(02-27-2017 06:23 PM)JMUETC Wrote: (02-27-2017 02:54 PM)RamDawg Wrote: (02-27-2017 07:53 AM)JMUNation Wrote: Our administration is pretty good. Not perfect but pretty good. I have seen that demonstrated time and time again. If you ever speak face to face with Charlie you will find him to be a straight shooter. I don't always agree with his decisions but he doesn't run from them in conversation. I do respect what he has accomplished for our university. It is substantial and he will be sorely missed when he retires. That is not brown nosing. That is a statement of fact.
Since you used "Charlie" I will assume there's a relationship?
There are people of influence outside athletics that feel the opposite, thinks 20 years is way too long and Mr. King and a small group of his friends on the BOV should have "retired" years ago. He has "the ear" of many people but not always the correct ear. I don't know the man so I can't give an opinion but from what I've heard, he sounds like the kind of guy you either love or you hate.
Regardless of how they spin all this MRD/Pep Band stuff, it's unprofessional how it was handled. In my line of work, people lose their jobs over that kind of stuff.
It wont happen but I think it would be great for roughly half the MRD members not to show up for one of those high school recruiting trips.
Apologize if it has been discussed, but can you summarize the issue of how it was handled? Did they commit for everyone to go and then at the last minute say only a subset could go?
Most of the story is discussed earlier in the thread but a few key points
JMU doesn't send any band to the NDSU game because they are saving the money so they can go to the NC game
Admin say's they will only send 200 to Frisco with no reason given.
Admin says Frisco didn't give enough seats for band, adds 50 spots because enough people complained.
Admin says 250 max is due too cost.
Groups of people offered money to send more MRD's Some MRD's offered to pay their own way to free up funds for others. Admin ignores everyone.
MRD's take a lot of personal time to market JMU. Members feel unappreciated and used by AD decision regarding the NC trip.
No official statement issued by the Admin or Alger to the MRD's other than saying they couldn't afford it.
I understand Scott Rikers is going out of is way to try to paint the Admin is a positive light but these kids pretty much know what happened and who is responsible for the decisions.