ColoradoEagle

I'd honestly be shocked if he's back next year.

I mean, of course you're going to find people enjoying Billy Joel at a Billy Joel concert. Kendrick is an artist that appeals to the masses, just not everyone. Same as in my example I pointed out that I wouldn't care about a Billie Eilish halftime, even though she's absolutely gargantuan at this moment.

My earlier post was in jest. There is always going to be a segment of the population who doesn't like the halftime performer. I mean, it's baked in, right? As NT93 said, country certainly wouldn't be popular with everyone either. People have different preferences in music. I think they've had a pretty good run in recent years, mostly following trends. If you're over a certain age, most likely those trends will be unrecognizable. Also, it doesn't mean every show is going to appeal to everybody. It would not be hard to imagine the Super Bowl LX performer being Billie Eilish, for example. I couldn't care less, but my wife would be ecstatic. Related but unrelated: I didn't hear any audio issues, but maybe the mix on Tubi was better than the OTA/cable feed?

Marketing is part of the athletic department, which reports to the AD.

You can view it on YT, just won’t embed

Touché. Here’s an audio corrected version:

The AAC as a conference needs to schedule better. Just looking at our schedule, we should only have two of these: Wayland Baptist, Evansville, Texas Wesleyan, Mississippi Valley State, Houston Christian, High Point, App State. A bunch of no names that completely ruin our SOS. I get needing a tune up game or two to begin the season, but after that it needs to be balls to the wall in out of conference. The AAC is too weak, and by the time we hit that schedule (for the most part) there's nowhere to go but down.

RV was very good at the gladhanding portion of the job, and advanced facilities in a way very few other people may have been able to do. Main problem was, outside of Johnny Jones, the man was incapable of picking a good football or basketball coach.

Because he's paid $500k+ a year to run a business, and from the outside looking in, that business is in decline.

It worries me that the school has added more than 14k students and the city of Denton has grown more than 50% since Johnny Jones started coaching at the school and attendance has been relatively flat and is now decreasing. Maybe getting people to care starts with the AD deciding to care.

What are the notches on his belt? What can he currently point to as "I did that"? I'm genuinely curious. Ross Hodge was an obvious choice and already here, but kudos I guess on not flubbing an easy one. I won't list what I feel like are the shortcomings, because I'm genuinely curious what makes him the best AD since Hayden Fry. I will say this man is being paid over half a million dollars a year, and the trajectory seems to be downwards.

I realize we're probably not going to buy out Mosley's contract, but he better be out after 2027. He's just absolutely awful at his job.

It's not a zero sum game. The problem can both be that students and locals aren't putting in the effort to be connected to their university just as much as the AD doesn't market or promote anything. One can be controlled and the other cannot.

Not promoting basketball games is a long standing tradition that goes back to at least 2003 with RV (probably earlier as well, but that was before my time). To this day, the biggest promotion for basketball in the last 20+ years was organized by students for the TCU game in 2004, self funded plus donations by people from this forum to pay for it.

I'm seriously pissed beyond a funny GIF here. Second to last in the conference in ticket sales. Last in 'Total Support'. Last in Contributions. Laughably last in Collective Funding. Still nowhere near moving dirt on the new AC. Declining basketball attendance despite a 13-4 record. Someone fire this man.

@Jared Mosley

Free of charge.

I am. Haven't seen anything to indicate Mosley is anywhere close on this. The fact that it's separated out into two phases on lightthetower, and the FAQ is basically warning that just because phase 1 is done doesn't mean phase 2 will start immediately after gives me very little confidence in this AD.

At this rate, Mosley won't have the AC renovated this decade.

Yep. And I'm not trying to be elitest; I have no issues with Texas State the institution. The problem the AAC is facing is the floor has absolutely fallen out in basketball, and the conference hasn't appeared as the G5 rep in the top tier bowls since Tulane a couple years ago. We need more consistent football and for the bottom 2/3 of the conference to stop phoning it in in basketball. At the very least, we need a 'brand' that will add to the media contract. I'm up for adding any school that can do any of those, so long as the numbers make sense.

From the outside looking in, it seems NIL and money towards the program in general are probably pretty low. Mosley has been AD for over two years now and accomplished roughly douchebag all. But honestly, it's what I expected when a 'national search' promoted someone from an AD that has been just awful since at least when I started following the program in 2003.

They're not good at anything other than being a close destination to party at. This conference already has plenty of not good at anything.

164 currently in the NET rankings. Not just no, but hell no. Any additions the AAC does from this point forward need to at least accomplish one of three things: hugely successful in football, hugely successful in basketball, or a massive brand (eg. Air Force). Texas State doesn't check any of those three boxes.

The PAC stands a real chance of becoming the 'Big East of the West', but I think they'll still be fighting to get into the CFP each year with the rest of the G5. MWC obviously is a huge downgrade since they're the conference that got raided. The best thing they have going for them is stability. Outside of AFA and, to a lesser degree, NIU and UNLV, no one has any interest in those schools. AAC did well with the Army pickup. What happens in the next few years under the new commissioner will be important. As a conference, we've scheduled ourselves into a one bid joke like Sun Belt or CUSA. They've gotta figure out some strategy there. For football, it's hard to say we're better or worse off than last year. SMU going to the CFP was a fluke compared with the past 30 years, but I imagine they'll be a stronger program in general than they were in the AAC due to the amount of money and attention the ACC brings. At least while it lasts...