Eric Hyman
Eric Hyman
Eric Hymanis a former athletic director at Texas A&M University. He has also served as athletic director of the University of South Carolina, Texas Christian University, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and The Virginia Military Institute...
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There's no question that the Mountain West Conference wants to be a national program. Their focus is on the BCS. This is what they aspire to be, and these are the aspirations of TCU.
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The way I look at it, you've got to do what makes sense. I wouldn't take (any possibility) off the table. Everything is on the table for me.
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I've agonized over this. I lay awake at night trying to think about, 'What is the right price for tickets?' You sense the demand, but I've got to be sensitive to our supporters.
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You can't measure the value he brings to the program. It's tremendous. At our first booster club meeting there were 1,000 to 2,000 people who wanted to listen to him talk.
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This is a tremendous accomplishment for our student-athletes. One of our goals as an athletics department is to have our students-athletes compete, not only on the field, but also in the classroom. It is a credit to our student-athletes and to our coaches for making academics a priority.
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We have a wonderful opportunity, a long way to go, to get our presentation up to speed with our competition. This will help us do some of that.
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Our objective is to try to do this on an annual basis. We want to reconnect with our past. Our past is very important to us.
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I looked at him like he had three eyes. Ultimately though, if you look at the program now, he was right on target. If TCU had stayed, I don't think TCU would ever have had the success we had.
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Conference USA has been a terrific affiliation for us the last couple years, we want to make Conference USA the best possible conference it can be, ... But at the same time, we want to have a nationally prominent program, and we will always look for a vehicle with which we can achieve that.
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It's a cultural change. What we want is to mirror our student bodies (in academic performance and graduation rates). This is putting consequences on people who are not headed in that direction.
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It's just an announced crowd. I don't know that you could give an accurate count at a game. It's an announced crowd, unless somebody has a computerized system in place.
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We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation.
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To captivate the attention from everybody around the country has elevated South Carolina to put us in the position where we can continue to build and maintain this momentum. What he's done this year is build a foundation, an anchor.
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He is a people person and is very talented, as indicated by his proven track record.