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Post by elon1985 on Sept 17, 2013 17:33:02 GMT -5
Blank is safe as long as BB, baseball, soccer, etc., succeed. He's not going anywhere unless he chooses to leave (just my opinion). I have very mixed feelings about Swepson, the more I think about it, but I am growing frustrated with the steady decline under his leadership.
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Post by elon10wm on Sept 17, 2013 18:29:05 GMT -5
Swepson should be fired if he continues to play pimp for the football team and wh...re our boys out for Money....No beat down like the one we took against Ga. Tech is worth any amount of money. The once proud football program, resurected by Pete Lembo is now a laughing stock. How do we continue to justify being a patsy to the Ga Tech's of the world?
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Post by topher99 on Sept 17, 2013 18:59:16 GMT -5
Just an FYI, Swepson didn't schedule the Tech game, that was done under Lembo.
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Post by elon10wm on Sept 17, 2013 19:01:42 GMT -5
ADs do the scheduling (final approval if nothing else)
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Post by elon10wm on Sept 17, 2013 19:06:31 GMT -5
My fault....meant to say Blanks should be fired...in my first post. Swepson is just not a good fit for Elon. Elon can win, Lembo proved that.
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Post by euphoenix99 on Sept 18, 2013 7:27:59 GMT -5
What? Blank should be fired for doing what every other FCS AD is doing? Elon is about to join the CAA. Either be ready to compete at the top level of FCS or Elon might as well join the Pioneer League. No doubt he made a bad hire in Swepson, but I don't want an AD who refuses to schedule top quality opponents. As I mentioned before, these FBS games were never an issue under Lembo, so why now?
Football is not the only sport and as far as I can tell the rest of Elon athletics is at unprecedented levels. As long as the trend continues upwards in Elon athletics Blank is going nowhere. I don't know the guy, but I'm pleased with the overall results with him running the show.
Go Phoenix!
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Post by elonpride on Sept 18, 2013 7:36:03 GMT -5
What? Blank should be fired for doing what every other FCS AD is doing? Elon is about to join the CAA. Either be ready to compete at the top level of FCS or Elon might as well join the Pioneer League. No doubt he made a bad hire in Swepson, but I don't want an AD who refuses to schedule top quality opponents. As I mentioned before, these FBS games were never an issue under Lembo, so why now? Football is not the only sport and as far as I can tell the rest of Elon athletics is at unprecedented levels. As long as the trend continues upwards in Elon athletics Blank is going nowhere. I don't know the guy, but I'm pleased with the overall results with him running the show. Go Phoenix! Agree here man. People here may not like Blank, but you cannot argue with the overall results.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 10:54:04 GMT -5
What? Blank should be fired for doing what every other FCS AD is doing? Elon is about to join the CAA. Either be ready to compete at the top level of FCS or Elon might as well join the Pioneer League. No doubt he made a bad hire in Swepson, but I don't want an AD who refuses to schedule top quality opponents. As I mentioned before, these FBS games were never an issue under Lembo, so why now? Football is not the only sport and as far as I can tell the rest of Elon athletics is at unprecedented levels. As long as the trend continues upwards in Elon athletics Blank is going nowhere. I don't know the guy, but I'm pleased with the overall results with him running the show. Go Phoenix! You know, AD's may be the villain at every school. You either hear no news or bad news about them. If they make a good hire, well that's what their supposed to do. If they make a bad one then they suck. Dave may not be the most personable guy in the world, but over all I give him a B+. Revenues are dramatically up since he came including scholarship funding and capital funding. He has made two stellar women's basketball hires, an outstanding men's basketball hire and the reining SoCon women's soccer coach of the year. Other than football, I don't see any sport faltering to any great degree. Even with football, I think Dave was given a dollar figure he had to stay within, & simply did what he thought best. Regarding personality, Yes, Dave could stand to be friendlier to all alumni and donors regardless of their giving level. But, in the end I want an AD who makes the overall sports program better. Just like I pay a doctor to make me healthier, not to have a superlative personality. Regarding the BCS scheduling, when we played USF, which rose to the 2nd ranked team in the country, we played them fairly close. Same with Duke when we played them. I see nothing at all wrong with scheduling these games. In fact, I think we should have one BCS game every year, both for the money and to allow the players a feel of the "Big Time". The problem with playing these games for the past two years is that we haven't been well prepared for them. This isn't an AD problem or a scheduling problem. Unfortunately, the GT game was actually scheduled in 2008. Who knew our program would have fallen to it's current level? There is no real "fault" here.
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Post by elon02 on Sept 19, 2013 0:06:06 GMT -5
I agree with fightinchristian on Blank. He has done an overall good job with the athletic department. All other sports seem to be doing pretty well. The general budget seems to be doing pretty well. So what if he hired Swepson. All AD's make a bad hire in football some time in their career. However the next hire is usually better as they learn what they are looking for. I agree the Football Team is in the crapper right now. however any one take note on Quaterbacks and how often Elon gets a good one. Elon seem to do a 4 year to 8 year cycle. When Elon gets a good QB Elon seems to do ok to top 25 in the nation. However Elon never seems to restock year in and year out. I am serious look at the history of QBs After Derrick Moore (I just dated myself). Elon really did not have a star QB that could really break an 80 to 90 yard run. Remember this was the triple option sorry if Seagraves reads this his offense was boring but effective with the right QB. The the Paul Hamelton years(bad QB). Then Pete (building gets good QB) serious look at the record book Im sure we are due for another 4 years but good lord can we keep getting good QBs so we dont have a 4 year lull.
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Post by elon10wm on Sept 21, 2013 17:48:44 GMT -5
Sure the money is good when playing outside of our class. That's why the money's good. "Come be our patsy, we'll give you 300k." That is what many of the Big South teams do. They may have facility improvement with the money that is made, but how many of them have strong programs? None. When I played at Elon, we would have enjoyed the opportunity to play a UNC or Duke. However, I do not think we would have enjoyed coming home after a 50 or 60 point beat down. I like winning. I don't care who we play, as long as we win, or realistically have a chance to win. Our program can be a competitive Big South program with the mentality of Elon Football as we see it now. (wait a moment, isn't that where Blanks came from?) The Lembo 5 years was a brief respite from a declining and floundering program. Now that we are moving to the CAA, we need to find someone who can handle running a program that will be competitive in that league. Maybe Blanks can take some of the money so graciously given to us by BCS teams to pay a coach worthy of having run our program. Regarding playing up, out of our league...we cannot handle it now. We are no longer competitive enough to do it.
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Post by phightingphoenix1 on Sept 21, 2013 17:49:08 GMT -5
Ready yet?
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Post by fc97 on Sept 21, 2013 17:51:13 GMT -5
Are you guys ready yet? See any Swepson action on the field? Our D is pathetic
I'm getting to where I hope we don't win another game until Swepson is gone.
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Post by fc97 on Sept 21, 2013 17:53:08 GMT -5
Hahaha!
Another 4th. Another pathetic drive. And punting to let our pathetic D take over
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Post by elonpride on Sept 21, 2013 17:59:19 GMT -5
I bought a black Elon hat this week, because Swepson killed Elon football.
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Post by whoanellie on Oct 12, 2013 18:40:05 GMT -5
Why don't We go after Jerry Moore He could coach til He's 80 and He has it bad to coach again? He is a FCS guy and would get us some respect back, just throwing it out there.
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