(11-20-2019 10:09 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  I don't need to know what the plan is for my ego, but I think if I knew, so would lots of other people who do need to know... coaches, parents, players, the administration, other ADs/conferences. If they know and I'm the uninformed, so be it.

Actually, I think you need to know. Not for your ego--you've never struck me as being the egotistical type--but rather because whatever the plan, all--or nearly all--of the stakeholders ultimately have to buy in for that plan to succeed.

And I don't know how stakeholders can buy into a plan if they don't know what it is.

That was one thing that I really liked about Fred. He had a plan, "If you play sound defense, win the kicking game, and have a quarterback, you can beat anybody." Ken had a plan, "Do something better or do something different." We knew what those plans were, and many of us bought in. I am not sure we've ever had an AD with a comprehensive plan.