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"I have done this job a long time and I don't blame Kevin Sumlin. If someone is going to give you $5 million a year for six years, it would have been stupid of him to turn it down," Hyman said. "But the contract was given to me, and it was 'This is what we are going to do.' I looked at myself and I was stunned.

"I had no say so over it. I've been doing this job for a long time. I had worked with Steve Spurrier for years, and he was paid a heck of a lot less than Coach Sumlin. And he won national championships after conference championships. And then you are making this commitment to a person, and again I don't blame Kevin, that's never won a conference championship

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https://sports.yahoo.com/former-texas-contract-191758321.html


Interesting.

It'll happen again in the future, and we will all be pissed off about it.

Where are the "public records" of Sumlin's contract extension?

Who was the BMA responsible? Buzbee says it wasn't him.

He said he was given the contract and "they" said "this is what we are going to do".

I wonder who "they" are. School officials or boosters? Honest question...

"They" get to tell the AD what to do.

The AD has very little oversight over football. This is why the Bill Byrne bashing over Franchione and Sherman is stupid. He had no say in that whatsoever. He elevated the programs that he had command over.

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He said he was given the contract and "they" said "this is what we are going to do".

I wonder who "they" are. School officials or boosters? Honest question...

"They" get to tell the AD what to do.

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Boosters.

It's been this way forever.

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FriscoKid said:

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He said he was given the contract and "they" said "this is what we are going to do".

I wonder who "they" are. School officials or boosters? Honest question...

"They" get to tell the AD what to do.

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Boosters.

It's been this way forever.

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So boosters or a booster will decide who our next coach will be? I thought the AD had more power than this.

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So boosters or a booster will decide who our next coach will be?

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Yes

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I thought the AD had more power than this.

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Nope.

Football has always been run by the boosters.

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Nope.

Football has always been run by the boosters.

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Sorta . . .depends on the nature of the AD. Sometime legendary coaches step up AD and have more a bully pulpit. I doubt Tom Osborne had to put up with the same crap at Nebraska when he was AD. Hyman was a hired gun and outsider and did not have any political clout so he did was he was told.

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Nope.

Football has always been run by the boosters.

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Sorta . . .depends on the nature of the AD. Sometime legendary coaches step up AD and have more a bully pulpit. I doubt Tom Osborne had to put up with the same crap at Nebraska when he was AD. Hyman was a hired gun and outsider and did not have any political clout so he did was he was told.

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I wish Hyman would have been told not to screw over our baseball team. But I guess he couldn't help himself.

Meh. Even if you know you are a paid puppet and 'Yes man'; you need to learn to sell the concept of giving them something better than what they ask for.

That is, unless you are OK taking big money to do nothing. And if that's the case don't go crowing about how great your ethics are after the fact.

A response by BZ

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/aggies/article/Rewriting-history-not-proper-course-of-action-for-12219553.php&cmpid=twitter-premium

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A response by BZ

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/aggies/article/Rewriting-history-not-proper-course-of-action-for-12219553.php&cmpid=twitter-premium

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See that sounds like people in the Universiry doing the micro-managing. Sharp is even quoted.

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A response by BZ

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/aggies/article/Rewriting-history-not-proper-course-of-action-for-12219553.php&cmpid=twitter-premium

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ouch

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A response by BZ

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/aggies/article/Rewriting-history-not-proper-course-of-action-for-12219553.php&cmpid=twitter-premium

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Head shot

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Don't always agree with Brent Z, but he is right on track here.

Eric Hyman signed and approved the contract extension. So now he is saying to the media that he was stunned and didn't agree with it but signed it anyway?

Really bad look, not for Texas A&M but for Eric Hyman.

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Exactly. If he truly is this amazing ethical person why sign something you don't agree with. He should have said I can't sign that and either quit or fought for what he believes. Not sign it and then years later talk about how he's better than A&M.

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He said he was given the contract and "they" said "this is what we are going to do".

I wonder who "they" are. School officials or boosters? Honest question...

"They" get to tell the AD what to do.

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Boosters.

It's been this way forever.

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So boosters or a booster will decide who our next coach will be? I thought the AD had more power than this.

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It's almost like someone has been telling you people this for a while now. And when it's finally admitted to you act surprised.

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FriscoKid said:

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FriscoKid said:

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He said he was given the contract and "they" said "this is what we are going to do".

I wonder who "they" are. School officials or boosters? Honest question...

"They" get to tell the AD what to do.

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Boosters.

It's been this way forever.

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So boosters or a booster will decide who our next coach will be? I thought the AD had more power than this.

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It's almost like someone has been telling you people this for a while now. And when it's finally admitted to you act surprised.

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Do they have influence? Yes. Do I believe that they write contracts and deliver them to the AD or pick the next head coach and the school doesn't have a say? I hope not.

We definitely need more "football" people involved in our searches (and I don't mean a search firm).

Since AD doesn't have that football background; hire a handful of successful old coaches/ADs that know football and A&M/SEC and get their recommendations.

Then you sell the boosters on the options and go to work.

Shouldn't be that hard.

Yea, Eric H. looks like the idiot here.

If you have a job to do and somebody tells you to do something that you feel makes no sense AND it is your job to carry it out, then it is your JOB to deal with that.

What Eric is saying is he was told this is how it is going to be and even though he KNEW this was a bad deal for the University and the athletic department, he didn't do anything about it (which was his job).

What that tells me Eric, you failed at your JOB. You failed to protect the University that was paying you a lot of money.

Ask yourself this, if Sumlin had went on to kick butt and win us a national championship over the last few years, is Eric coming out now saying he thought this was a bad move?

Eric H. is a turd!

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What that tells me Eric, you failed at your JOB. You failed to protect the University that was paying you a lot of money.

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Which is a nicer way of calling him a wiener, like Brent Zwerneman did. Turd is also fitting.

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Do they have influence? Yes. Do I believe that they write contracts and deliver them to the AD or pick the next head coach and the school doesn't have a say? I hope not.

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University lawyers cannot let that happen. The boosters aren't the ones signing the contracts.

Hyman is FOS.

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Do they have influence? Yes. Do I believe that they write contracts and deliver them to the AD or pick the next head coach and the school doesn't have a say? I hope not.

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University lawyers cannot let that happen. The boosters aren't the ones signing the contracts.

Hyman is FOS.

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But do you think they wrote it?

From another article I read, it sounded like boosters that are on the board of regents can get heavily involved and have in the past.

ETA: this was in the thread yesterday about Jackie saying Sumlin could coach.

https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/texasamaggies/2017/09/21/aggie-spirit-football-power-politics-history-repeating-texas-am

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Do they have influence? Yes. Do I believe that they write contracts and deliver them to the AD or pick the next head coach and the school doesn't have a say? I hope not.

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University lawyers cannot let that happen. The boosters aren't the ones signing the contracts.

Hyman is FOS.

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But do you think they wrote it?

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The BMAs? No, they didn't write it. They likely laid out the parameters of the basic agreement but they didn't create the final document. A&M has a host of lawyers who draw up university contracts.

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Do they have influence? Yes. Do I believe that they write contracts and deliver them to the AD or pick the next head coach and the school doesn't have a say? I hope not.

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University lawyers cannot let that happen. The boosters aren't the ones signing the contracts.

Hyman is FOS.

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But do you think they wrote it?

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The BMAs? No, they didn't write it. They likely laid out the parameters of the basic agreement but they didn't create the final document. A&M has a host of lawyers who draw up university contracts.

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And many of these lawyers are friends with lawyers of the donors.


Or so I hear...