What is the plan? How, & when

[Bandwagon King]

Will the plan be revealed? Who will reveal the plan? I wrote a week ago that this conference realignment crap was a bunch of overblown hooey & still think to a great extent it is. I can see the president of the university's present position & the AD's also, but what would be inexcusable, would be to let the greatest coach this school has ever had, get away & not have made all the hay this school can make while he is here. I have heard those who think a guy like HUD can be replaced without skipping a beat. If this is the case, then why did it take for forever to find him to begin with?

WE NEED A PLAN! We need a PLAN. WE NEED a plan. I am not so worried about not moving to CUSA because I believe the TV contract numbers will not be as great as they have been advertised. Besides, let's face it. This school has not done what it should have to be prepared to make a jump in conference affiliation. Not that a jump to CUSA is all that, but it can't be denied that it would be a step forward. What is disconcerting are the raping, pillaging, & plundering of what was the SBC. Now the SBC commissioner's only answer is to desperately grab a school which isn't committed to all sports & resell the rest of the university presidents that backwards is the way to go.

WE need a plan. Without saying it, T-Joe & Scott have basically said we couldn't compete because the deck was stacked against us so we didn't even try. This is not good for the morale of the boosters or the overall persona put out by the university. The President & the AD would have been in a much better position & put the school in a better light if they had at least inquired of the conference all of the prerequisites to join & invited CUSA to view the facilities & asked their conference commissioner to for advice on what kind of improvements they recommended. There is no evidence this was done in any way.

We NEED a plan. It is incumbent upon this president, this AD, this RCAF board to put their collective brains together. To seek out at least three other AQ conferences as well as the CUSA & seek their advice on what the future needs are for athletics. This needs to be presented with AT LEAST a vision plan that is broken down & shows what the necessary average contribution per RCAF member would be to achieve this vision. It should also encompass a break down in the growth of the RCAF & the expected increase in membership to lessen the burden for each individual supporter to achieve this vision.

We need a PLAN. The people who support this program need to realize this plan should place the sport of football in front & center of this plan of growth. Not because football drives the bus, but because football is the bus that drives the program to its future destination of greater heights of deeper depths of despair. Let's face it. Had Bustle still been here & this team had gone 4-8 or 5-7, this LTU, CUSA, SBC robbing news would have probably been taken with the usual ho hum grain of salt of despair. The fact that guys like Z, Hammer,& Boomer aren't taking this well at all shows there is something that I perceive wasn't here in the past. There is the willingness of the supporters to stand up to the leaders & say, "WE NEED A PLAN!" And we need one now.

[beavis11]

Rack him !!

[basinbear]

WOW!!! I was going to post something similar to this but this gets it done....good job Kyle

[Just1More]

I agree. We need a comprehensive athletic progress plan. I contend that it will not come about unless our administration is informed of the extreme potential penalties for non-compliance. Dr. Savoie is also going to need to become substantially more directly involved in athletic leadership and vocal about his aggressive plans for excellence. What we used to have was an AD or ADs that had to wrangle the president of the university into agreement on riskier objectives for athletics. The way it should be, if Dr. Savoie is truly a proponent of the need for massive excellence in football, for instance, the meetings with Scott, RCAF and others should have T-Joe saying "that's not aggressive and risky enough spend more, buy more, commit more, get us in over our heads... and let me worry about any repercussions... I'm an intellectual for God's sake... I have 50 PhD geniuses at my beckon call... I'm afraid of nothing!"

[Turbine]

Due to technical difficulties, we do not have a plan due to technical difficulties

[Chop]

And this is the reason the RCAF is not what it could be because we do not have a plan.

Its hard to plop down any serious money if you dont know what you are giving to.

I have no idea what my RCAF money goes to.
I have no idea what UL's longrange plans are.


This is just a ship with no direction.

Has anyone ever gone to a church that wanted to build a new building?

They have this bar chart that tells you how much money is needed for the new church with a red bar that tells you how much is raised so far and how much more is needed to reach the bar all the way to the ultimate goal of getting to level of having enough money to build a new building.

Every week you go to the church the bar gets a little bit closer to the top until you finally have enough funds for the new building.

This creates direction. This gives everyone in the church a goal to reach. This shows how much progress you have made.


I think if the RCAF would define clear goals more people would be willing to give more money. You could get more people to join the cause. But people have a hard time putting in real money when they dont know what they are giving to.

This school has way too big of an "I can't" attitude.
It needs to develop an "I can" attitude.

Make the fans and the boosters part of the solution and quit keeping everyone in the dark.

The RCAF should have an annual mission statement mailed out every January.
And then at the end of every 3 months send out a statement with charts showing everyone the progress of the mission statement.

Sometimes the people up top in the University treat the supporters like they are the adversary and not the friend.

They seem too afraid of losing power and full control. They feel threatened if they give out too much info that they may have someone tell them or suggest to them what they should do with said money.

[DannyP]

"A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow."
— George Patton

[Turbine]

"A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow."
— George Patton

By George, you're right!

Is your last name Patton?

[RaginFan2]

"A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow."
— George Patton

Great quote, Danny! And very timely, too!

[Bandwagon King]

Turbine, I know it's an odd & unusual request. But in the hope that this is't a forgotten issue that will soon be swept under the rug of sports ventilation forever, I would ask if it is possible for me to change my public name from Bandwagon King to WE NEED A PLAN! Since I have an uncanny talent for ____inig people off, causing controversy, & hopefully making a few think a little more about some things, maybe, just maybe if the idea gets tossed out there enough, people will catch on that until the leadership of this school comes out with a public plan to promote & build the growth of the athletic as well as the academic departments of this school, they do so at the hinderance of support within the community. This has been a well known, but very little discussed subject of past decades with the previous administration having a stranglehold on all forms of mass communication within the community. Now it can be reasonably discussed & brought forward to the university leadership in a reasonable, yet unyielding manner. WE NEED A PLAN!

Does the leadership run the risk of having that plan critiqued & in some cases, having to adjust & amend protions of the plan to better fit the thoughts & needs of the underlying supporters, students, & the community? Most likely. But to say because you fear being criticized for being forward thinking & upfront & honest with the people you are supposed to serve, you can't bring a plan to the public, is to say you wish to continue to dwell in the shadow & eat the dust of every other institution of higher learning in the country who is led by such forward thinking leaders. Someone posted Texas State's mission statement to the SBC along with their plans of growth both academically as well as athletically. It's a sinch they will be brought into the SBC. What a disgrace if the next go around of reallignment, they are chosen to be invited to a larger more well respected conference than UL, all becasue their leaders had a plan which showed vision & direction for their future & ours did not. WE NEED A PLAN!

[Chop]

That would be much better then BWK