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My biggest gripe with ML is I feel like he just sits on his ass and attends the events but does nothing to better them. He has done nothing to make the gameday experience better in the dome and therefore we can only fill half the dome. It’s sad to see and it starts with him and to me has nothing to do with the product on the field. May be a great fundraiser but shit at everything else.


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Originally Posted by Grizzled

You could argue football and track with the facilities. Probably basketball. Softball facilities. Wrestling to the Big12. It’s more challenging to name one that’s not in a better place.

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Outdoor track maybe

Remove facilities out of the equation and every team is worse off. Basketball? What's Daves signature win? He had zero to do with Big 12 Wrestling inviting us

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Originally Posted by HerdBot

Outdoor track maybe

Remove facilities out of the equation and every team is worse off. He had zero to do with Big 12 Wrestling inviting us

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An AD is not responsible for facilities?

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Originally Posted by Grizzled

You could argue football and track with the facilities. Probably basketball. Softball facilities. Wrestling to the Big12. It’s more challenging to name one that’s not in a better place.

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Mrs Larsen, please don't post on Bisonville! ADML has done a great job fundraising but none of our sports are in a better place. He is not and was never the guy who had the vision to get us into FBS.

Quick story...I was a student at NDSU during the transition. The day that the Big Sky turned us down for a conference invite I ran into Gene Taylor at the copy shop in the union. We were both waiting to get something printed so we briefly chatted. His eyes were red and you could tell he'd had a rough day. He just had the look of somebody who'd had their heart broken. I asked him something along the lines of "what now for NDSU" and he responded that he was convinced that NDSU would be a huge success in DI and that it was his job to ensure the big sky regretted their decision. Boy, did he ever. I've never gotten that kind of passion from ADML and have always felt that he wasn't the big vision guy.

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Originally Posted by Grizzled

An AD is not responsible for facilities?

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That's the only thing he was good at. There is more to the job than fundraising

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Originally Posted by Gully

Sorry, who is SMSU?

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Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall MN

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Originally Posted by AKBison

Mrs Larsen, please don't post on Bisonville! ADML has done a great job fundraising but none of our sports are in a better place. He is not and was never the guy who had the vision to get us into FBS.

Quick story...I was a student at NDSU during the transition. The day that the Big Sky turned us down for a conference invite I ran into Gene Taylor at the copy shop in the union. We were both waiting to get something printed so we briefly chatted. His eyes were red and you could tell he'd had a rough day. He just had the look of somebody who'd had their heart broken. I asked him something along the lines of "what now for NDSU" and he responded that he was convinced that NDSU would be a huge success in DI and that it was his job to ensure they regretted their decision. Boy, did he ever. I've never gotten that kind of passion from ADML and have always felt that he wasn't the big vision guy to take us to FBS.

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And who can forget when Gene Taylor resigned to go to Kansas State, and the emotion-filled press conference. President Bresciani was at his side and Gene pretty much broke down with reddened eyes. Who can blame him for going to K-State but he still was sad to leave. Everything he did was with his heart and soul. We will never, ever get an A.D. like him. M.L. pales in comparison. I will admit Gene was a tough act to follow but that does not mean his successor had to be an abysmal failure.

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Originally Posted by HillsboroBison

My biggest gripe with ML is I feel like he just sits on his ass and attends the events but does nothing to better them. He has done nothing to make the gameday experience better in the dome and therefore we can only fill half the dome. It’s sad to see and it starts with him and to me has nothing to do with the product on the field. May be a great fundraiser but shit at everything else.


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Attendance and atmosphere in every sport has suffered under Matt.

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Originally Posted by KTF

Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall MN

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Got it. They don't like the XDSUs huh. Weird. I wonder why they'd have that opinion, they're in different worlds.

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Originally Posted by Grizzled

An AD is not responsible for facilities?

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Don't forget the SHAC was fundraised and planned by GT. ML was AD while it was being built so the credit and unfortunately some of the failures of that project go to GT.