Ummmm.....how does this quote from McPhee not set off major alarm bells?
“The importance of enhanced facilities became clear to me during the shifts in the national collegiate landscape prompted by the realignment of athletic conferences,” McPhee said. “The decision we made to remain with Conference USA aligns squarely with our desire to bring about meaningful change in our athletics campus.”
I mean, I don't even know what to say. Everyone, and I mean everyone, has known realignment is coming. It's been talked about for over a decade. But just now, he understands how important it is to take athletics seriously, after you get passed by all of your conference peers? LOL! How could you not prepare for realignment? How could you sit by idly and let others amass war chests, build beautiful facilities, deliver results on the field/hardwood, and then literally sit around while your major programs went on epicly bad losing streaks and high schools built nicer facilities than ours. Ohhhhhh, now that we are up shit creek without a paddle, Dr. McPhee wants to take things seriously......HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAH
I am truly speechless. Some of you talk about McPhee being a person installed by the state/UTK system to ruin MT/keep it in its place. I used to think it was hogwash conspiracy talk....but now....I'm actually on board with it. There's no way one man who is supposedly a well educated president of a major university can be that ****ing stupid.
No sane, logical, competent individual could sit in a position of power like that and not have the foresight and knowledge that you have to take athletics seriously and invest in them if you want to succeed at the D1/FBS level.
I cannot put into words how infuriating and depressing it has been being a fan of MT since coming to campus as a freshman student in 2003. I was hooked after my first game, where I saw FAU win on a last second 62 yard TD pass for their first ever win over a D1 program (Go figure that would be my first game, huh?). I've said it before and I will say it again, our "leaders" make it impossible to be a fan of this university. There is just so much to hate and be discontent about. And this goes way beyond your regular message board bellyaching where people are mad about offensive play calling or whatever. This is flat out incompetence at the highest levels of our administration and leadership and it's been going on for decades. These are people that are supposed to be on our side and working for the betterment of our university/athletics but instead are actually sabotaging it. And it's been allowed to flourish for decades....It makes all the caring and effort and investment feel so futile. They have destroyed athletics and the soul of our university, and I suspect they are too ignorant and surrounded by too much groupthink to grasp it all.
My only hope at this point is that, god willing, I will out live these ****ing leeches.
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