(10-15-2019 09:13 PM)WMSportsBlog Wrote:  So we had a "10-Year Plan" released in April 2015.

Then a "Strategic Review" released in May 2019.

Now we will have a "Strategic Plan" released in October 2019.

Am I the only one going crazy here, or does that seem like a lot? I love the effort/transparency with the docs, and also realize the 2015 plan was under the old AD, but I think it's time to stop plannin' and start doin'!

I'm sure Huge agrees, but I think we can probably expect this to be the last strategy document; it's time to make it happen.

+1

A lot of orchestrated AD talk/fluff in today's Tribe Talks. Where's the beef after two + years?

Who was the guy holding the "Huge was a mistake"
sign at the end of the meeting today? Several attendees
stopped to speak with him. What was his point?
I don't like everything that is happening, but I thought
this was an inappropriate venue for such a demonstration
by one person.

(10-18-2019 04:04 PM)DSL Wrote:  Who was the guy holding the "Huge was a mistake"
sign at the end of the meeting today? Several attendees
stopped to speak with him. What was his point?
I don't like everything that is happening, but I thought
this was an inappropriate venue for such a demonstration
by one person.

I think his name tag said "Shony Taver"? He had a weird tanline where a mustache would have been.

Sounds like his point was to communicate his displeasure with the firing of coach Shaver and Huge's job performance. The public event was a perfect opportunity to do that. I mean, he could've danced in the street like a buffoon, blocked traffic, poured liquid on a vet, or stopped an old lady from crossing the street with her walker but that would've been "inappropriate."

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(10-17-2019 09:25 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 08:06 PM)WMSportsBlog Wrote:  (especially for those of you who were too lazy to read the actual document)

Would add to/ expand on your takeaways with following:

1. No reason to believe the College can’t deliver on academic and ethics goals. This is not trivial. Few institutions do it as well or better. Would like to know whether leadership believes dollars received for the Academic Based Revenue Distribution each year are fair. If leadership believes Power 5 schools are receiving more than adequate NCAA dollars for athletic success based in some measure on using players who never graduate, now is a propitious time to lobby for an increase in academic based revenue. Where are the op eds highlighting that at least one school is delivering on the Rice Commission premise that basketball scholarships are about college degrees? There should be external as well as internal components to these goals.

2. College leadership deserves credit for taking stock of recent athletic performance and acknowledging: the football program has averaged, rounding up, four wins the last three seasons; non-revenue sports success peaked a few years back; and while against considerable odds the basketball program achieved a level of respectability, it hit a ceiling.

3. College leadership’s attachment to and affection for CAA football and basketball are undying. Its level of devotion to other CAA sports may be flagging. The College intends to increase resources for football and basketball. These resources will not come from additional student activity fees. College leadership is persuaded resources needed to close the football and basketball resource gap with other CAA schools can come from internal tradeoffs and increased donations.

Have now read three strategic documents since 2015. Each time I’m left with Rod Tidwell’s challenge to Jerry McGuire banging around in my head. One question for leadership is whether if additional resources don’t materialize over the next five years the plan will be to boldly push the goals to 2030, or come up with another strategy.

Ongoing debate about the future in the Tribe Logo thread, so Ill try to redirect folks...

Anyway, wasnt a main tenet of the For The Bold 1Billion campaign to endow all athletics scholarships? I dont think they wanted to cut sports.

Swimming could be self-sufficient, but only after a new pool. Look to City of Williamsburg to help fund a high-end competition pool that can be shared with local tournaments.

(10-21-2019 12:00 PM)Tribal Wrote:  So, we can't find 46k to sustain but we can pay $1.5mil....oh, forget it.

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This is at the heart of it for me. It may be more emotional than factual but it feels like Huge is prioritizing money to go towards her (sometimes bad) programmatic decisions over funding actual sports.

Everyone expected some major announcements, but nothing came out this past weekend. We need actions not another strategic plan.

https://www.pilotonline.com/sports/colum...story.html

Yes, there's that "execution" part. And even with more money, I think the plan will be near impossible to achieve. Maybe by 2030. I hope I'm wrong.

What is this Khaos at Kaplan?

and WREN Traditions? Is this a Student-run University Advancement group?

https://www.facebook.com/WrenTraditions/...=3&theater

(11-05-2019 01:22 PM)nogretheogre Wrote:  What is this Khaos at Kaplan?

and WREN Traditions? Is this a Student-run University Advancement group?

https://www.facebook.com/WrenTraditions/...=3&theater

Wren Traditions is a student advancement group, yes. I think Khaos at Kaplan is a new event, they're just trying to get more people to a women's bball game/take advantage of a double header.