I wonder about that. I suspect that he's in the middle between Drake and the alums on the Jon Waters thing and has had enough. The alums are pretty much strongly behind Waters and wanted the Alumni Association to stand behind him too. Archie was forced to walk a tightrope between the Administration (the Board and Drake) and the alums, who promptly began closing up their checkbooks when he didn't take on Drake and didn't say much about the whole thing. Maybe he's had enough of all that. BTW - the last two finalists for the Band Director's job have removed themselves from consideration. Very odd...
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Administrator People underestimate the intelligence of animals... and the overestimate the intelligence of people.
Question - Before the Spring Game on BTN, they had a show on about him. I believe I heard this right - Archie rarely practiced during his second Heisman year b/c everyone was after him during the games. They were worried he would get hurt and the games left him physically drained.
Question - Before the Spring Game on BTN, they had a show on about him. I believe I heard this right - Archie rarely practiced during his second Heisman year b/c everyone was after him during the games. They were worried he would get hurt and the games left him physically drained.
Did anyone else see or hear this?
I think I saw that later in the week. They must have re-run it.
I wonder about that. I suspect that he's in the middle between Drake and the alums on the Jon Waters thing and has had enough. The alums are pretty much strongly behind Waters and wanted the Alumni Association to stand behind him too. Archie was forced to walk a tightrope between the Administration (the Board and Drake) and the alums, who promptly began closing up their checkbooks when he didn't take on Drake and didn't say much about the whole thing. Maybe he's had enough of all that. BTW - the last two finalists for the Band Director's job have removed themselves from consideration. Very odd...
With my morher's ties to the band, they were not pleased that Archie took the administrations side on the waters case. The Alumni band is a huge and powerful organization both on and off campus and when the administration basically said that the whole band was a sexualized culture, 1,000's of alumni were not pleased and Archie as informed as such.
The other ting that gets lost in the Waters issue is that the band makes lots of money from alumni and the fact it owns the rights to all the songs. My understanding is the university isn't pleased that this is the case and wanted the rights to them (for the monetary side of it) plus, the university has no control over the alumni band, and by having the rights to the music, it would then control what the alumni band could play as well. (Or have them pay to play)
I am convinced that Waters was railroaded. It's only going to get worse if the University doesn't retract its statements and have an independent third party investigate. Too many holes in the narrative.
