phawkes
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Post by phawkes on Jun 12, 2024 7:40:10 GMT -5
According to caasports.com, the Phoenix are ranked #18 in the 2024 Craig Haley pre-seaon top 25. Why isn't this reported on the Phoenix website? Granted, this is not one of the better known polls, but any such recognition is surely worth reporting. Missouri Valley and Big Sky teams have the top 5 spots, deservedly. CAA is well represented, with Villanova and W&M in the top 10.
Go, Phoenix!
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Post by fearthephoenix on Jun 12, 2024 11:23:36 GMT -5
Because the Sports Information Directors and Communications department is the worst office of the entire Athletic Department. Absolutely horrible from top to bottom
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Post by fauxphoenix on Jun 14, 2024 9:47:57 GMT -5
Because the Sports Information Directors and Communications department is the worst office of the entire Athletic Department. Absolutely horrible from top to bottom It's a pretty stiff competition for the worst office in the Athletic Department. The apathy and laziness of the Athletic Department brought on by years of lack of accountability from the administration is just sad.
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eu96
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Post by eu96 on Jun 14, 2024 12:05:38 GMT -5
Can anybody name ONE discernible thing our new AD has done since she got here?? Go ahead…I’ll wait.
One thing she could have done is challenge her team to craft the best looking mid-major website in the country. Nope..still got the same crummy, non-informative, not up to date site we have always had
Another would be have us LOOK better. She came from Miami, a Nike school. Can she leverage her contacts? We are with Under Armour, a languishing brand that is laughed and looked down upon by the youngsters. If you don’t think that matters, you don’t know modern sports.
Where is her initial statement about NIL? Has she appointed an NIL team to go after funds? What is the strategy? Crickets.
I could go on, but you get the picture. Not impressed.
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Post by fearthephoenix on Jun 14, 2024 15:04:31 GMT -5
Can anybody name ONE discernible thing our new AD has done since she got here?? Go ahead…I’ll wait. One thing she could have done is challenge her team to craft the best looking mid-major website in the country. Nope..still got the same crummy, non-informative, not up to date site we have always had Another would be have us LOOK better. She came from Miami, a Nike school. Can she leverage her contacts? We are with Under Armour, a languishing brand that is laughed and looked down upon by the youngsters. If you don’t think that matters, you don’t know modern sports. Where is her initial statement about NIL? Has she appointed an NIL team to go after funds? What is the strategy? Crickets. I could go on, but you get the picture. Not impressed. 96, I don’t agree with everything you said but I will say this, Miami is an Adidas school, not Nike, and if you want to hear Strawley’s plans, as she has openly said, email her and set up a meeting.
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eu96
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Post by eu96 on Jun 14, 2024 16:05:13 GMT -5
So if I want to hear the AD’s strategy for Elon, I have to schedule a meeting with her? Ok…got it.
Tell me your a Cracker Jack operation without telling me your a Cracker Jack operation.
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Post by epx on Jun 15, 2024 13:17:56 GMT -5
Blank had throngs of assistants with the primary responsibility of kissing his a$$. To my knowledge there has been no shake up in the department. From an outsider's POV nothing's changed but the height of the butt. The only people leaving Elon are moving up to better schools and programs. All of the lazy, non-motivated, untalented "dead wood" is still lying in the back yard. I had high hopes for Elon when Strawley came on board. IMO Elon's number 1 problem athletics wise is a lack of commitment from admin and the BOT. This problem has led to a lack of consistent funding which has led to the inability to set a reasonable strategic direction for our level of institution. I still like Jen. If all she's doing is fighting internal battles, it's likely we won't hear anything, although if it was me I'd leak something. If Strawley is as good as she originally appeared to be, she'll either get something done soon or leave like others that just can't take the stagnation. If not, she'll be part of the dead wood problem too.
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eu96
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Post by eu96 on Jun 15, 2024 14:38:46 GMT -5
Yep. Totally agree. Not one discernible change. Not even a small but symbolic change like the website. She didn’t even fire anybody, even though there were two really, really good candidates who deserved it (volleyball and WBB). College athletics is right in the middle of a generational shift. If Elon does not have a strategy, we will find ourselves left behind. Everyone else seems to get this, except us.
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Post by fearthephoenix on Jun 16, 2024 15:01:10 GMT -5
So if I want to hear the AD’s strategy for Elon, I have to schedule a meeting with her? Ok…got it. Tell me your a Cracker Jack operation without telling me your a Cracker Jack operation. If you want specifics, then get it directly from the source. d**n sure didn’t happen for the last seventeen years. Also, she was never going to fire anyone in the first year, it was clear as day when Tendler was on the d**n committee to hire her. If you didn’t fire her, how could you fire any other coach? We keep rehashing this conversation but I’ll be all aboard the criticism if underperforming coaches are kept this year. However, I firmly believe the external operation leadership needs to be fully reevaluated and either terminated or reassignment immediately
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Post by fearthephoenix on Jun 16, 2024 15:19:16 GMT -5
Blank had throngs of assistants with the primary responsibility of kissing his a$$. To my knowledge there has been no shake up in the department. From an outsider's POV nothing's changed but the height of the butt. The only people leaving Elon are moving up to better schools and programs. All of the lazy, non-motivated, untalented "dead wood" is still lying in the back yard. I had high hopes for Elon when Strawley came on board. IMO Elon's number 1 problem athletics wise is a lack of commitment from admin and the BOT. This problem has led to a lack of consistent funding which has led to the inability to set a reasonable strategic direction for our level of institution. I still like Jen. If all she's doing is fighting internal battles, it's likely we won't hear anything, although if it was me I'd leak something. If Strawley is as good as she originally appeared to be, she'll either get something done soon or leave like others that just can't take the stagnation. If not, she'll be part of the dead wood problem too. EPX, I think this is a fair take and you are absolutely right.
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eu96
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Post by eu96 on Jun 16, 2024 20:53:38 GMT -5
Fear, the reason we keep re-hashing this is nothing is happening. Zilch…nada. Zip.
And who says you can’t fire a coach in your first year? What?? That might be the BEST time to can someone. Especially a morbid athletic program like Elon’s.
Just my opinion. Everyone enjoy your summer.
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Post by fearthephoenix on Jun 16, 2024 21:01:29 GMT -5
Is "nothing happening" or are the things you want not happening? Big difference. We have said this since the Fall that no coaches were gonna be gone after year one and here we are in June and you are absolutely stunned, thats on you.
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eu96
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Post by eu96 on Jun 17, 2024 7:42:54 GMT -5
I’m 100% NOT stunned. And therein lies the problem….
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Post by whoanellie on Jun 17, 2024 15:37:35 GMT -5
Elon has to be more proactive in local media, We fight the ACC specifically the Big 4, as well as NCA&T now a CAA member with other HBCUs. Times/News, Adam Smith has been missed now with/ UNC-CH. He had a lot of regional respect which we do not have now. State schools like in the Mo. Valley are in a small town'/cities and these sportswriters fill their columns with homerisms. Back in the day, We had that too. We have plenty of X and Meta posts, just not sure how all this translates into Cheeks in the seats.
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eu96
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Post by eu96 on Jun 17, 2024 18:35:20 GMT -5
Coverage of Elon is zero. Especially embarrassing is the Times News, which doesn’t even have an Elon tab on their sports page. The local D1 team and no coverage?? I know we are past the days of having beat writers like Adam, but man, it’s lousy.
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