Monday, July 14th, 2008

When Opie Attacks

Opie’s after Sam again although the story is similar to many we’ve read on the TSC/GSUFans forums before.

Let’s face it. Sam Baker commissioning a I-A study for GSU is like Dick Cheney admitting that Global Warming exists and that he is “going green”. Needless to say, it just doesn’t compute, and it goes against everything the man has publicly stood for in his long career. What could possibly have changed Sam’s mind on this subject? Was it the constant Internet message board pressure? Was it Alex Pellegrino’s articles on the subject in the Statesboro Herald? Was it a sudden realization that GSU is being passed-by, by schools that were formerly thought to be inferior?(see MTSU, Troy, WKU, etc.)

 

Hardly. In fact, Sam’s opinion hasn’t changed one bit since the first day he started telling us that I-A was not in GSU’s future. The only difference is that a new source of pressure has exerted itself in this seemingly never-ending I-A/FBS debate. That source, thank God, is the GSU Faculty.

So what are your thoughts? Has the pressure from the Faculty and subsequently from Dr. Grube’s office changed the internal debate? Or is the AD actively setting himself against the I-A idea as Opie opines?

We do know that this is one of the biggest decisions that Georgia Southern has made … probably since the program started back up more than 25 years ago.

Personally, I’m still a glass 3/4 full kind of person :)