Hamrick wins award.

[ohio herd]

Just thought I would share this. This board seems divided on him. Deserving or no?

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/sport...cfdthB7Pjtpoghyzi-i3O5S_P9DkWHndGKt3T48x5Fgdk

 

[Sash19]

Just thought I would share this. This board seems divided on him. Deserving or no?

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/sport...cfdthB7Pjtpoghyzi-i3O5S_P9DkWHndGKt3T48x5Fgdk

Not a fan of him but if the award is for someone who helped advance sport, his work in facilities at Marshall qualify him for the award. Congrats to him.

 

[jdf12550]

very deserving.

 

[banker6796]

Thought he would have finished second.

 

[sistersville]

Well earned for the soccer field and future baseball field. The reverse of the coin is a $200K/year TV deal from CUSA, the Stewarts Hot Dog mess, and only drawing 18K-25K per home game.

 

[goherd73]

If you don't agree....who would your choice of WV Sportsperson of the year be?

 

[WyomingHerdFan]

If you don't agree....who would your choice of WV Sportsperson of the year be?

Chuck Landon.

 

[The Real SamC]

100% deserved. Great job, Mike.

 

[HerdFan73]

Thought he would have finished second.

He should be happy with that.

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

MH has strong points and building facilities is his forte. Fundraising is one also.
Hiring coaches and fan relationships are fails.

 

[Herd-nificent]

Who hired DD ? He gets no credit for that hire ??

 

[Marine03]

He’s deserving of it. He’s done quite a bit for the university during his tenure here. The only thing I fault him for is his blind loyalty to John, and his sarcastic attitude towards the fans.

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

Who hired DD ? He gets no credit for that hire ??

He wanted Mike. That was no secret. He hired Danny and that has worked out well - thus far.
Historically he has been very sub par with hires.

 

[banker6796]

Who hired DD ? He gets no credit for that hire ??

Even though he didn't want to. He was leveraged into that decision.

 

[Tim Hensley]

Say what you want -- and I am an occasional critic, but Mike has been the best AD we've ever had. His legacy will leave more accomplishments than any before him. He's a Whitey Wilson -- God rest his soul -- who used to [have to] feed our boys with personal money out of his pocket.

 

[banker6796]

Say what you want -- and I am an occasional critic, but Mike has been the best AD we've ever had. His legacy will leave more accomplishments than any before him. He's a Whitey Wilson -- God rest his soul -- who used to [have to] feed our boys with personal money out of his pocket.

I would say first that being our best AD, at least in recent history (since Cam) is a pretty low bar. Second, I would say he is the best fundraiser we have had, but his production from a wins and losses, championships across all sports, etc., has been below average for his peer group. We are near the bottom in total championships for CUSA members during his tenure. He's been here 11 years (10 1/2), we sponsor 14 sports, so he has an opportunity to win about 145 championships, he has a handful. His "fair share" would be around 10-12.

 

[herdalicious]

Fun fact missing from the article: The majority of the dollars used to build the IPF came from a single large donation from Chris Cline, which was combined with $5 million in matching funds intended to be used for educational purposes (what are those?) from the "Bucks for Brains" Program. Congrats Mike!

That IPF has been instrumental in Marshall recruiting the cream-of-the-crop among weather-averse athletes, and it really shows any time these guys have to play in the rain.

 

[RhinoD]

It's funny, because most of the camp that wants to make a football coaching change is also on the anti-Hamrick side... I'm actually split. I think Hamrick has done a pretty good job, especially in facilities, as AD. In my opinion, his only real glaring weakness is his unwillingness to make said coaching change.

 

[herdalicious]

For the record, I'm not anti-Hamrick, as he is above-average for MU ADs I've seen in my lifetime, I just roll my eyes at awards being given to people for their work with Other Peoples' Excess Money/State Tax Dollars.

The part in the article about the "pressure" of being MU's AD made me chortle a little. This is the same place where Mark Snyder got a fifth year, just to make sure we weren't being rash. I'm not sure what it would take for an AD at Marshall to lose his job, but I have to think sex with a pig would be involved in the transaction.

By the way, is Kayo Marcum still alive? I'd always assumed he died in 2007, and just turned to Thanos Dust after Hamricks first presser.

 

[19MU88]

For the record, I'm not anti-Hamrick, as he is above-average for MU ADs I've seen in my lifetime, I just roll my eyes at awards being given to people for their work with Other Peoples' Excess Money/State Tax Dollars.

The part in the article about the "pressure" of being MU's AD made me chortle a little. This is the same place where Mark Snyder got a fifth year, just to make sure we weren't being rash. I'm not sure what it would take for an AD at Marshall to lose his job, but I have to think sex with a pig would be involved in the transaction.

By the way, is Kayo Marcum still alive? I'd always assumed he died in 2007, and just turned to Thanos Dust after Hamricks first presser.

I hear he is a resident at Woodlands Retirement home and possibly wheel chair bound? I can't recall where I heard that but I heard it this past year. If that's the case, maybe we can lay off the man at this point, he's been gone a while.

 

[herdfan06]

Is this just a movie about our Athletic Director played by Dan Aykroyd?

 

[trace_94]

Here’s the thing with Hamrick, he’s done a phenomenal job of helping set our athletic programs up for the future. The indoor practice facility, the sports medicine institute, the baseball stadium, etc. In terms of facilities, he’s raised the bar. He’s made some great coaching hires too. But the one thing he hasn’t been able to do is bring the entire fanbase together. I mean, it might be in the worst overall place its been in years. A lot of that is his own fault with his whole “big green member or you’re irrelevant” stance he stated in 2016. It also seems like he just doesn’t care what the fans think. It’s like he just tunes them out, thus having no pulse on the state of the fanbase. As an overall body of work from top to bottom, I’d grade his tenure as AD at about a B, maybe B+.