FLORIDA STATE APPOINTS NEW YES-MAN

by Orson on Feb 5, 2008 12:00 PM EST

Florida State: massive athletic program! Huge state school! Facilities, yes please! A rolling behemoth, a corporation in itself. Certainly the president, T.K. Wetherell, will back away and appoint a professional with the tools and experience to handle the myriad problems Florida State faces, including the declining performance of their football, baseball, and basketball teams, the academic improprieties affecting the football team and beyond. That's precisely what a leader would do, just delegate responsibly and...

Utah State athletic director Randy Spetman, a retired Air Force colonel with nearly a dozen years' experience running college athletic departments, was named Monday to take over Florida State's troubled program.

Oh, terribly sorry. Strike everything we said. Hiring the Utah State AD to run the program means you just want a yes man, and may in fact make him wear this t-shirt to the job daily.

Yes!

Remember, just say yes. It will get you places in life you couldn't possibly imagine.

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What, Neon Deion was too busy?

by NativeSon on Feb 5, 2008 12:20 PM EST reply actions

Utah State…

Just a second…

“www.google.com”….

" utah state"…..

holy **** it is a real school!

by ThreenOut on Feb 5, 2008 12:37 PM EST reply actions

You never want to face Utah State in the NCAAs. They take the air out of the ball like you would not believe.

Yep, that is about all I know regarding Utah State.

Oh, it is in Utah, as well.

by Coop on Feb 5, 2008 12:40 PM EST reply actions

Bobby Knight retired and moved his kid into the top spot at Texas Tech. There’s no way Bobby B would………

Nah.

by drogue on Feb 5, 2008 1:04 PM EST reply actions

I could be wrong, but I believe Spetman hired USU football coach Brent Guy. Guy was the defensive coordinator at Arizona State under Dirk Koetter, who fielded some of the worst defenses in the NCAA during his tenure. Guy’s record at USU speaks for itself, somewhere in the .250 range.

We’re talking about an AD who hired someone who stuck with the 4-2-5 defense- and unsuccessfully so- for roughly four years. YES! It’s no wonder they let Bowden name his own successor.

by Big Jon on Feb 5, 2008 1:46 PM EST reply actions

Ole T.K. on this hiring…

“We didn’t want someone who would have to look those words [honor, integrity and loyalty] up in the dictionary, but understood them and lived by them.”

Hence why they didn’t hire from WITHIN.

by zzgator on Feb 5, 2008 2:23 PM EST reply actions

This looks like the equivalent of hiring The Orgeron at Ole Pi$$.
WTG, Free Shoes. At this rate, Leonard Hamilton will be the most popular and successful coach on campus.

by yoyofutbawl on Feb 5, 2008 5:01 PM EST reply actions

Randy Spetman is definitely NOT a yes man. I have known him for many years and to think he is a yes man is to insult him, his USAF career and AF Academy graduates. Ask him why he retired rather than go along with changes forced upon him by Bullfrog Roche. He has cajones gordito.

FSU as a former girl’s school is fortunate to hire a man with inetgrity like Randy.

by F16Jock on Feb 9, 2008 7:00 PM EST reply actions

Obviously the person who wrote this article doesn’t know a thing about Randy Spetman. He was a very successful AD at the Air Force Academy. He is not anyone’s puppet; in fact, he is the opposite of what has been suggested here. He is a stand-up guy of the highest integrity. His presence at FSU will be an asset to your athletic department. If you don’t want him, there are many of supporters and grads at the Air Force Academy that would love to have him back there. You picked up a great man for your school, but some of you don’t realize it yet. You will.

by R on Feb 29, 2008 7:42 PM EST reply actions