[TonyLima]

Big-time football has/had always been a fragile enterprise on The Farm. R.I.P.

Agree with this statement. However, one has to note that this is not the first time such a statement has been made. The football program had to return from being fully dead once and the number of epitaphs written over the years is large. I think the truth is nobody knows what will be true three years from now, so I am not as pessimistic about football surviving. "Big-time" is another issue, but even that is malleable.

Point taken. But i still wish Bernie would leave the building.

I generally agree Bernie hasn't been a "good" AD on many levels. The current situation is probably a difficult one for all 10 remaining ADs. It would be great if the Office of the President would step in and replace Bernie with "someone better". I think the odds of that happening were minuscule before the departure of UCLA and U$C and are even less now. Who (that is "any good") is looking for a job as an AD in a (PAC-12)-2 school right now? If anyone, who here thinks MTL could find them? Obviously, my answers are nobody and no.

I doubt anyone worth hiring would take the job amidst the current state of confounding & confusion. We need to find a conference home and some stability for the program before replacing arguably the most incompetent AD in our history. Yes, Bernie's that bad.

Don’t forget that Muir went along with the proposal to eliminate 11 varsity sports.

[TonyLima]

Big-time football has/had always been a fragile enterprise on The Farm. R.I.P.

Agree with this statement. However, one has to note that this is not the first time such a statement has been made. The football program had to return from being fully dead once and the number of epitaphs written over the years is large. I think the truth is nobody knows what will be true three years from now, so I am not as pessimistic about football surviving. "Big-time" is another issue, but even that is malleable.

Point taken. But i still wish Bernie would leave the building.

I generally agree Bernie hasn't been a "good" AD on many levels. The current situation is probably a difficult one for all 10 remaining ADs. It would be great if the Office of the President would step in and replace Bernie with "someone better". I think the odds of that happening were minuscule before the departure of UCLA and U$C and are even less now. Who (that is "any good") is looking for a job as an AD in a (PAC-12)-2 school right now? If anyone, who here thinks MTL could find them? Obviously, my answers are nobody and no.

I doubt anyone worth hiring would take the job amidst the current state of confounding & confusion. We need to find a conference home and some stability for the program before replacing arguably the most incompetent AD in our history. Yes, Bernie's that bad.

Don’t forget that Muir went along with the proposal to eliminate 11 varsity sports.