Eric Hyman out at TexasA&M......Finally exposed.

[cock enforcer]

Eric Hyman, the great general that some on this board make him out to be, out after a few years at Texas A&M. No doubt he was pushed out with the debacle going on around his latest football program. Anyone remember Whitney-Gate?? He never even fired the woman responsible for that who he actually hired.

Truth is, Eric is way in over his head for big-time college athletics. If you need someone to shake hands with boosters and raise money, hire Eric Hyman. Outside of that, he was lost in Columbia and lost in College Station.
Darrin Horn just scratched the surface. Doesn't make him a bad guy. The final straw for me was when we were paying him over 1/2 million dollars so he could play footsies with North Carolina, Georgia, Texas A&M and whoever else had an AD opening. Not to mention he fired one of our own, Brad Edwards, just months on the job. Brad is an AD now at George Mason.

He thought the grass was greener somewhere else. Wrong. Now he's back in the unemployment line. He'll probably get another job, but never in the SEC.

For those who bash Mike McGee. He only hired the best two coaches the program has ever had. This trumps anything Eric Hyman did by a long shot. Hyman benefited greatly by those two hires. Greatly!

Flame away cronies, those are the facts and there plenty more that are unflattering about Mr. Hyman.
I wish him and his family well, but am don't miss him one bit running our athletic program.

 

[NaturalGC7]

Like my daddy said....if you do things the correct way and stay the course, everything works out right in the end.

 

[Creek Snake]

What you say might well be true,but you have to give him credit for improving Carolina's facilities to the point they are as good as anyone in the country.Most all of the facility improvements that we see were started by Hyman.

 

[Atlanta Cock]

What you say might well be true,but you have to give him credit for improving Carolina's facilities to the point they are as good as anyone in the country.Most all of the facility improvements that we see were started by Hyman.

More importantly, he created a plan. Incredibly, during the prior 100 years or so, nobody thought it important to create a plan which is why our campus outside the Horseshoe is inconsistent and not as pleasing to the eye as other campuses. Moreover, everything he did was first class. Unlike prior ADs, he actually designed and built everything with aesthetics, consistency and pride in the University in mind.

 

[superflyby]

We are still benefiting from his vision and building on the things he put in place. I know the seating was an issue but we are a better program for it. The guy was the right person..at the right time...

 

[saltlifeGamecock]

Oddly enough, he just raised enough money to complete over a half Billion dollars in improvements after many lackluster years at TAMU. Oh, sorta like what he did for us just on a smaller scale. Stupid people. The guy gets it done, the coach cries foul after a couple years and, as they say in Texas, adios. Sumlin is an abject failure there. Time will tell.

 

[cocky4]

Somewhere Steven Garcia is having a coke and a smile. Cheers brother.

 

[king ward]

I don't care what happened to him out there. He brought both TCU and USC into modern times. And if he chooses to continue in the profession, he will elevate the next place he works as well if they let him.

 

[burghcock]

Oddly enough, he just raised enough money to complete over a half Billion dollars in improvements after many lackluster years at TAMU. Oh, sorta like what he did for us just on a smaller scale. Stupid people. The guy gets it done, the coach cries foul after a couple years and, as they say in Texas, adios. Sumlin is an abject failure there. Time will tell.

He had nothing to do with the TAMU Master Plan, as it was drafted in 2004 and he arrived in July, 2012. I am not sure how much of the funding was his idea either, as it resembles the plan used by most schools, i.e. seat licenses, etc. He might have been a good fund raiser, but I am not clear about that. It appears that the fund raising went hand in hand with the big donors' desire to leave the Big 12 (and UT) and come to the SEC.

 

[king ward]

Well, he's not being run off. They don't let people stay until their replacement is found when they are being summarily fired.

 

[goldengamecock]

If spending other people's money is a skill, then I'm a savant!
All AD's in the SEC in the last ten years have improved facilities dramatically because of all the new revenue streams from rcord TV money. All AD's!
Again, if that's a skill, you should hire my wife to be AD. She'll take TV and booster money and build us a new, state of the art retractable roof stadium!

 

[NaturalGC7]

We're getting a new stadium with a roof? Awesome baby!!

 

[king ward]

If spending other people's money is a skill, then I'm a savant!
All AD's in the SEC in the last ten years have improved facilities dramatically because of all the new revenue streams from rcord TV money. All AD's!
Again, if that's a skill, you should hire my wife to be AD. She'll take TV and booster money and build us a new, state of the art retractable roof stadium!

Don't intend to be argumentative on this point because no one's mind is going to be changed, but Hyman started turning our program in the way it needed to go before the financial promise of the SEC Network had been realized. We didn't even know what we needed around here until Eric Hyman came along.

 

[bdblack]

Eric Hyman, the great general that some on this board make him out to be, out after a few years at Texas A&M. No doubt he was pushed out with the debacle going on around his latest football program. Anyone remember Whitney-Gate?? He never even fired the woman responsible for that who he actually hired.

Truth is, Eric is way in over his head for big-time college athletics. If you need someone to shake hands with boosters and raise money, hire Eric Hyman. Outside of that, he was lost in Columbia and lost in College Station.
Darrin Horn just scratched the surface. Doesn't make him a bad guy. The final straw for me was when we were paying him over 1/2 million dollars so he could play footsies with North Carolina, Georgia, Texas A&M and whoever else had an AD opening. Not to mention he fired one of our own, Brad Edwards, just months on the job. Brad is an AD now at George Mason.

He thought the grass was greener somewhere else. Wrong. Now he's back in the unemployment line. He'll probably get another job, but never in the SEC.

For those who bash Mike McGee. He only hired the best two coaches the program has ever had. This trumps anything Eric Hyman did by a long shot. Hyman benefited greatly by those two hires. Greatly!

Flame away cronies, those are the facts and there plenty more that are unflattering about Mr. Hyman.
I wish him and his family well, but am don't miss him one bit running our athletic program.

I get it that you're more of a Mike McGee supporter, but do you really enjoy busting Hyman?

 

[robertfootball]

We're getting a new stadium with a roof? Awesome baby!!

Our stadium needs a complete overhaul if you want to be honest about it. I wish we had the money to tear the thing down and build a brand new one if you want to know the truth. Williams-Brice stadium is about as modern as the Ford model A.

 

[Rod Dangerfield]

Somewhere Steven Garcia is having a bourbon and a smile. Cheers brother.

This! I only wish he'd have the opportunity one day to open-hand slap hymen.

 

[Atlanta Cock]

This! I only wish he'd have the opportunity one day to open-hand slap hymen.

You need a fighting lesson from St. Vincent.

 

[stagedoor71]

I am not sure that he was exposed but he was apparently fired. There Is an interesting article in the Dallas Morning News that says, will the last one leaving College Station please turn out the lights.

So what is the path forward? They may have a plan but I don't see it

 

[lazenge44]

[QUOTE="cock enforcer, post: 1568949, member: 2532"]Eric Hyman, the great general that some on this board make him out to be, out after a few years at Texas A&M. No doubt he was pushed out with the debacle going on around his latest football program. Anyone remember Whitney-Gate?? He never even fired the woman responsible for that who he actually hired.

Truth is, Eric is way in over his head for big-time college athletics. If you need someone to shake hands with boosters and raise money, hire Eric Hyman. Outside of that, he was lost in Columbia and lost in College Station.
Darrin Horn just scratched the surface. Doesn't make him a bad guy. The final straw for me was when we were paying him over 1/2 million dollars so he could play footsies with North Carolina, Georgia, Texas A&M and whoever else had an AD opening. Not to mention he fired one of our own, Brad Edwards, just months on the job. Brad is an AD now at George Mason.

He thought the grass was greener somewhere else. Wrong. Now he's back in the unemployment line. He'll probably get another job, but never in the SEC.

For those who bash Mike McGee. He only hired the best two coaches the program has ever had. This trumps anything Eric Hyman did by a long shot. Hyman benefited greatly by those two hires. Greatly!

Flame away cronies, those are the facts and there plenty more that are unflattering about Mr. Hyman.
I wish him and his family well, but am don't miss him one bit running our athletic program.[/QUOTE]

You couldn't be more wrong about the man. The man isn't perfect for sure, but to describe him as "someone to shake hands with boosters and raise money," is just inaccurate. That part alone was his biggest shortcoming. Interacting with the donors was not his strong suit.

 

[67gamecock]

Our stadium needs a complete overhaul if you want to be honest about it. I wish we had the money to tear the thing down and build a brand new one if you want to know the truth. Williams-Brice stadium is about as modern as the Ford model A.

I agree, but it's not going to happen. Simply too expensive. Try 250 million $$$ +/-. However, maybe we can tear out the lower East, North, and West Stands replace them with concrete based seating + new concourses and restrooms and add more luxury suites on the East side for around 100 Million. Maybe install chairback seating in the new East lower and current West lower (this appears to be one of the latest trends in college stadiums).

Whatever, but we need to make plans NOW and not wait for everybody and his second cousin to get the jump on us. One more time, folks: COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS A BIG BUSINESS - get on board or stay in the depot!

 

[Cola G'Cock]

Eric Hyman, the great general that some on this board make him out to be, out after a few years at Texas A&M. No doubt he was pushed out with the debacle going on around his latest football program. Anyone remember Whitney-Gate?? He never even fired the woman responsible for that who he actually hired.

Truth is, Eric is way in over his head for big-time college athletics. If you need someone to shake hands with boosters and raise money, hire Eric Hyman. Outside of that, he was lost in Columbia and lost in College Station.
Darrin Horn just scratched the surface. Doesn't make him a bad guy. The final straw for me was when we were paying him over 1/2 million dollars so he could play footsies with North Carolina, Georgia, Texas A&M and whoever else had an AD opening. Not to mention he fired one of our own, Brad Edwards, just months on the job. Brad is an AD now at George Mason.

He thought the grass was greener somewhere else. Wrong. Now he's back in the unemployment line. He'll probably get another job, but never in the SEC.

For those who bash Mike McGee. He only hired the best two coaches the program has ever had. This trumps anything Eric Hyman did by a long shot. Hyman benefited greatly by those two hires. Greatly!

Flame away cronies, those are the facts and there plenty more that are unflattering about Mr. Hyman.
I wish him and his family well, but am don't miss him one bit running our athletic program.

Today's Athletics Director has to be a good balance between a business person and an athletics person.

I think Hyman's problem is that he is too much of a business person and not enough of an athletics person.

 

[Bleedgarnet33]

Looks like money for the stadium renovations has fallen through there, they are in a crunch. They haven't fired Sumlin yet because they can't pay the 20 mil they would owe him in a short period of time.

 

[Rod Dangerfield]

I think Hyman's problem is that he is too much of a business person and not enough of an athletics person.

And that he's a gargantuan sized rectum.

 

[robertfootball]

I agree, but it's not going to happen. Simply too expensive. Try 250 million $$$ +/-. However, maybe we can tear out the lower East, North, and West Stands replace them with concrete based seating + new concourses and restrooms and add more luxury suites on the East side for around 100 Million. Maybe install chairback seating in the new East lower and current West lower (this appears to be one of the latest trends in college stadiums).

Whatever, but we need to make plans NOW and not wait for everybody and his second cousin to get the jump on us. One more time, folks: COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS A BIG BUSINESS - get on board or stay in the depot!

I agree and those are the same ideas I had. Stadiums today need to be built with "fan experience" in mind. With all the tv deals and prices of attending games, you need to give the fan extra incentive to come to the stadium. Our restrooms and concessions need a complete redo, I'd also opt for chair backed seating with cup holders (cushioned for club seats like the 200 level but regular seating like East club). The concourses need a complete redo and we need to do a facelift with the Floyd budding (maybe a USC football museum). I kinda wish we could just build a new stadium and sell the naming rights and get someone to pony up a $100 mil or so. It's fun to dream and spend other people's money. WB needs to host more events in the future but then that cuts in to the CLA.

 

[SportsSuites1]

Hyman's a businessman that's very good at what he does. He's 65 now, with hefty earned state-pension credits accrued at several venues calculated against a very attractive base-salary history ... he's probably 'retiring' exactly according to his own personal 'life plan' with endless opportunities to earn 'consulting' income should he get the itch to stay somewhat active during this no-doubt well thought-out next phase of his life and career.
He was exactly what we needed and he advised us well. The University of South Carolina athletic department is much richer and well-off due to his leadership. I hope he enjoys his new status where ever he and family decide to take up residence - be it Texas the 'Carolina's or somewhere else. The guy got my goat more than a little with Garcia (I played a little college ball and remember FONDLY the crazy times we had) but in this era of social media what happened was a foregone conclusion ... judged on his total body of work Hyman was very good for SC athletics. He left here on his own terms (almost doubling his salary) and is now leaving aTm the same way ... no way a rich school like A&M keeps anyone around if they want 'em gone. The 'build-out' we've got is pretty-much the blueprint he fostered. Like him or not the 'view' around our campus has improved 1000% since he took control and laid the groundwork ... 'pre-expansion' and 'pre-TV' money. He ticked off a lot of 'Roundhouse' multiple-ticket holders with lower-level seats for years but there are new 'butts' in those seats today that pay a whole lot more than face-value and a few hundred bucks for those locations. Hyman was the right guy at the right time. What he did for ALL sports is visible everywhere we look ... it wasn't all just football.

 

[RickyRooster]

Hyman's a businessman that's very good at what he does. He's 65 now, with hefty earned state-pension credits accrued at several venues calculated against a very attractive base-salary history ... he's probably 'retiring' exactly according to his own personal 'life plan' with endless opportunities to earn 'consulting' income should he get the itch to stay somewhat active during this no-doubt well thought-out next phase of his life and career.
He was exactly what we needed and he advised us well. The University of South Carolina athletic department is much richer and well-off due to his leadership. I hope he enjoys his new status where ever he and family decide to take up residence - be it Texas the 'Carolina's or somewhere else. The guy got my goat more than a little with Garcia (I played a little college ball and remember FONDLY the crazy times we had) but in this era of social media what happened was a foregone conclusion ... judged on his total body of work Hyman was very good for SC athletics. He left here on his own terms (almost doubling his salary) and is now leaving aTm the same way ... no way a rich school like A&M keeps anyone around if they want 'em gone. The 'build-out' we've got is pretty-much the blueprint he fostered. Like him or not the 'view' around our campus has improved 1000% since he took control and laid the groundwork ... 'pre-expansion' and 'pre-TV' money. He ticked off a lot of 'Roundhouse' multiple-ticket holders with lower-level seats for years but there are new 'butts' in those seats today that pay a whole lot more than face-value and a few hundred bucks for those locations. Hyman was the right guy at the right time. What he did for ALL sports is visible everywhere we look ... it wasn't all just football.

Holy Toledo! An actual sensible and well thought out post without a bunch of gibberish!? Who would have thunk it.

 

[SportsSuites1]

Holy Toledo! An actual sensible and well thought out post without a bunch of gibberish!? Who would have thunk it.

Depends on the 'audience' 'cause I'm a big believer in singing to the choir. The 'Hyman' issue isn't one familiar to many clemson trolls, thus my comments were directed at 'thoughtful' Gamecock posters, not clemson interlopers - which routinely calls for different tactics, different verbiage and a healthy dose of 'spoofin'. I can't stand those nimwits and so go out of my way to ruin their day whenever possible.
When I get really riled I'll visit their board in retaliation and do my best to gag 'em with some facts that don't always comport with the theme of "all-in".
clemson, per se's all-right and I have many friends from that part of the world - but there's a large quantity of never went to school there but it's my adopted team crazy as Rodney King dumb as a brick sad sack basically not only ignorant but also really dumb followers of the solid orange.
They get the gibberish ... it's their primary language.

 

[JGH 35]

What you say might well be true,but you have to give him credit for improving Carolina's facilities to the point they are as good as anyone in the country.Most all of the facility improvements that we see were started by Hyman.

I don't give him any such credit. The credit goes to Mike Slive, the greatest conference commissioner ever. He negotiated and brokered the deal with ESPN that brought in the money for facilities improvements. Also, Stever Spurrier courted many big time donors, like Dodie Anderson, who gave large sums of money to the Athletic Department. Hyman had little to do with it.

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

What you say might well be true,but you have to give him credit for improving Carolina's facilities to the point they are as good as anyone in the country.Most all of the facility improvements that we see were started by Hyman.

I think there are two different things that need to be mention in regards to Eric Hyman. I think he is to be commended for his improvement of USC's facilities. Some of the coaching hires did not work out so well. But, coaching hires are a crap shoot for the most part unless you are hiring someone like SOS.

 

[gamecockengineer2011]

If you bash Eric Hyman for the Darrin Horn debacle, you do have to praise him for getting it right the second time with Frank Martin and hitting an absolute home run with Dawn Staley.

 

[burghcock]

Today's Athletics Director has to be a good balance between a business person and an athletics person.

I think Hyman's problem is that he is too much of a business person and not enough of an athletics person.

Do you think so? I used to think he was a businessman who got into athletics, but I recently read his bio and he has never been involved in any real business enterprise ever. He was a coach at Furman, got an MBA there, and has worked as a coach/ athletics dept. employee for his entire life. I am beginning to agree with the poster who said Hyman is/was in over his head. The folks at TAMU don't appear to miss him or regard him the same way as many do here.

 

[Creek Snake]

I don't give him any such credit. The credit goes to Mike Slive, the greatest conference commissioner ever. He negotiated and brokered the deal with ESPN that brought in the money for facilities improvements. Also, Stever Spurrier courted many big time donors, like Dodie Anderson, who gave large sums of money to the Athletic Department. Hyman had little to do with it.

I think the two crown jewels facility wise for the athletic department, the CLA and the baseball park were both built pre SEC Network..Not sure if it was McGee or Hyman responsible for the CLA,but it was before the SEC Network money started rolling in.

 

[gamecockengineer2011]

I believe McGee was responsible for the CLA and the baseball park was Hyman fullfilling a promise to Ray Tanner.

 

[basses]

Our AD hasn't proved anything yet either. Jury out on Holbrook and Muschamp.

 

[Zarlot532]

Meh. Always found him somewhat hypocritical with how he treated Garcia for his drinking yet wouldn't TOUCH Johnny. I guess winning is everything. If you're winning, drink and party as much as you want basically. To be fair, maybe he didn't have the power there he had here to go after players, especially a heisman winner. I do wonder if Garcia had won that auburn game, I wonder if Hyman would have overlooked his drinking after his grandfather died.

 

[cock enforcer]

I don't give him any such credit. The credit goes to Mike Slive, the greatest conference commissioner ever. He negotiated and brokered the deal with ESPN that brought in the money for facilities improvements. Also, Stever Spurrier courted many big time donors, like Dodie Anderson, who gave large sums of money to the Athletic Department. Hyman had little to do with it.

Not THAT is a sensible, well thought out post (and accurate) from a fellow Gamecock fan.

 

[Uncreation]

Don't intend to be argumentative on this point because no one's mind is going to be changed, but Hyman started turning our program in the way it needed to go before the financial promise of the SEC Network had been realized. We didn't even know what we needed around here until Eric Hyman came along.

No way dude. He ran the mens basketball into the deep toilet.

All this fuss about facilities. I dont see what he did that was so special. He paid a firm over $1mm to do a study. Wow. The famers market is nice but if you want to get down to brass tacks our football record became progressively worse as all these facilities were added. My point.....recruits dont give a shit about facilities. They care about relationships with coaches.

You have an AD now that was a national champion caliber head coach. That is huge for us. Eric Hyman was a fraud. He tripled the cost to see a game, running attendance way down, he was rude to the fan base, and he built a new parking lot. WOW. A real visionary.

And no he does not get credit for the baseball stadium. That was designed, funded and mostly built before he got here.

 

[pepsicock]

You got to figure that there is smoke with the football coach at Texas A&M wants to leave along with the 2 hot shot QBs they had. Makes you wonder when the NCAA is going to put the hammer down on that program under Hyman's watch . Hyman was a fraud .

 

[robertfootball]

No way dude. He ran the mens basketball into the deep toilet.

All this fuss about facilities. I dont see what he did that was so special. He paid a firm over $1mm to do a study. Wow. The famers market is nice but if you want to get down to brass tacks our football record became progressively worse as all these facilities were added. My point.....recruits dont give a shit about facilities. They care about relationships with coaches.

You have an AD now that was a national champion caliber head coach. That is huge for us. Eric Hyman was a fraud. He tripled the cost to see a game, running attendance way down, he was rude to the fan base, and he built a new parking lot. WOW. A real visionary.

And no he does not get credit for the baseball stadium. That was designed, funded and mostly built before he got here.

If you think facilities don't matter let me ask you this, how'd we do prior to updating them? If you think facilities don't matter you're smoking something. You can spin it all you want but our facilities were a dump compared to the rest of the conference and are just now above average.

 

[ReadR00ster]

The OP and those that agree with him are clueless and won't let go of their irrational hatred for Hyman. Hyman was forced out for ONE reason. Some big shot boosters wanted to fire Sumlin and he wouldn't do it. The only thing EXPOSED is the pathetic bitterness about the YES program yet again. Those people will not stop being babies about that.