Mitch Blood Green said:
Robert Wilson said:
Mitch Blood Green said:
Robert Wilson said:
Mitch Blood Green said:
Robert Wilson said:
Mitch Blood Green said:
Robert Wilson said:
As far as I can tell, there's nothing you actually need to say. Of course you are going to hire an athletic athletic director. I think everybody knows you need one. No need to say that. If you don't fire Dave, fine, don't fire Dave. Go privately tell him you are disappointed and he needs to do better.
Why say anything publicly at all? And if you feel like you have to say something, why make it haughty, preachy, out of touch double speak nonsense?
And beyond that, why release it when there are still two weeks left in the season? If your supposition is the players love Dave, maybe let them think they're playing for his job? And how do you look if you release that letter and then we get trucked the last two weeks?
Baylor is so poorly run, it boggles the mind.
She told us the truth. We don't have to like it. There was no way we would do a coach search with the AD in place.
What's infuriating is we didn't do a quality AD search. In 2026 if Aranda is the real problem, we're depending on this new AD to do a proper search and hire.
We could have done all sorts of things. Still could (if we had money). But the primary point is that putting that letter out there when she did accomplished precisely nothing. If you don't have anything actually constructive to say, just stay quiet. It's an underrated technique.
I don't see anything wrong with the letter. It ended the speculation around Aranda's status. People want clarity. If I'm a player, who is the coach. If I'm an assistant, do I start to look?
No issue with the letter.
As long as you don't mind looking foolish, it was a great letter.
You're upset that she told the truth?
You mean when she said she was putting it out there to keep our highly ranked recruiting class and our roster intact? That was the truth?
Or ... that just made her look foolish.
Of course she hoped it would keep the recruiting class intact. No different than when Aranda was hired. We hoped he'd compete for championships.
We're seeing that his brand of leadership isn't resonating with players and fans. Still, at the time of the letter, we didn't have an AD in place. The choices were either try to get new AD then make a decision on Aranda or lock down Aranda. Remember, we were trying to salvage the incoming freshman signing date 3 weeks later.
My biggest surprise is that Aranda and staff can't seem to get and keep top performers. He coached at LSU. I expected him to be a better judge of talent.
The fact that she thought sending out that letter would help solidify the recruiting class or the roster shows that she has no idea what she's doing with respect to the football program.
You don't have the money to fire him? Fine. Don't fire him. But sending that letter out with 2 weeks to play was ridiculous.
Bottom line is we do not have the money we need to run this program well, and firing Aranda and finding a new staff looked like a lot of work that Linda and the Board did not want to do.
Sending a letter saying that we don't settle for mediocrity (obviously we do), we are going to solidify our recruiting class and roster (obviously we didn't), and Dave comports with our Christian mission is ... peak new Baylor.
Better to let folks think you're an idiot than to open your mouth and confirm it.
Then, of course, we got trucked the next two weeks and lost most of the top of the recruiting class and have major roster attrition anyway.
