The football media team was fired yesterday
- Thread starter DesotoCountyDawg
- Start date
Unsurprising, considering their work yesterday.
The decisions around the distribution was a piss poor idea. And the content wasn't engaging. It was a clinic on what not to do.
No it’s not surprising at all. They fumbled yesterday badly.
Even I complained about the whole set up. Why is the 2023 recruiting class still on the website ? Why did they stop posting names 3 or 4 signees early ? Not impressive. Just be competent and do your job
Now do hutz.
Good to see we are holding people accountable for the terrible on field product****
Firing the media team but not Hutzler is a joke imo
Yesterday was not very well thought out for one of the biggest creative content days of the year. Can't fumble that badly with that.
Here’s the explanation…. No one knew there was such a thing as an MSU Media Team outside of the people writing the pay checks. We all thought there was a few interns who got to it when they got to it.
Not defending their work (or lack thereof), but an entire team being fired is indicative of much bigger problems than any of those individuals could have possibly been responsible for.
They either weren’t good candidates to begin with, weren’t trained, weren’t given the resources needed (budget, etc.), or weren’t managed at the level required to ensure their performance was adequate. Any of those 4 things goes straight to the top…..way beyond the level of control of this lower mid management guy that’s tweeting. 4 different people just don’t all coincidentally do shítty work all at once.
They either weren’t good candidates to begin with, weren’t trained, weren’t given the resources needed (budget, etc.), or weren’t managed at the level required to ensure their performance was adequate. Any of those 4 things goes straight to the top…..way beyond the level of control of this lower mid management guy that’s tweeting. 4 different people just don’t all coincidentally do shítty work all at once.
The bland videos from a boxed up empty office were top notch.
I think that I saw one or two tweets yesterday about signings. I literally got more info from a 30 second blurb on the local 6 o’clock news last night. They were pretty weak.
Having seen people who were genuinely shocked about being fired, they typically fall into two camps:
1) They've been getting regular feedback that they needed to improve but didn't think it was that serious.
2) They are under poor leadership who increasingly gets frustrated with their work product but does not have meetings with them to discuss their need for improvement and then just breaks one day firing them.
I consider both cases failures in leadership. Communicating your expectations to your team in a clear way is on you as a leader.
They had to fire somebody. The natives are getting restless. Low hanging fruit Selmon is not friends with.
I clicked on the tweet and read his entire thread. What jumped out to me was that he didn’t even move here for 6 months of having the job, he commuted from Tuscaloosa. Seems like a lack of commitment to the job to me.
Speaking of media: Game 1, there was a great "Showtime" video with lots of movie clips. I never saw it again at the games we attended.
My first thought when I saw it was that someone was on point.
My thought when I never saw it again was to wonder if we didn't have the rights to use the clips...
My first thought when I saw it was that someone was on point.
My thought when I never saw it again was to wonder if we didn't have the rights to use the clips...
The uniform reveal graphics this season were terrible. IDK whose idea those were but the fact that we kept putting them out tells me that something had to change. Hope these people find employment quickly.
Last edited:
Were they responsible for the Jeff Lebby thank you video that ran at every game where Lebby looked unexcited and ready to go do anything else?
This is the part that gets me. How do you get all the way to national signing day as a leader of our athletic department, and only then does it hit you that our prep and coverage for it sucks?
Fully agree that this is a clear example of a much bigger, systemic problem throughout the organization. Attention to detail matters, and we have none
For real. Doesn't matter what the media team produces if the on field product sucks
Feels like almost intentional sabotage. Give terrible guidance to a department you decide you want to get rid of. Then let them fail publicly to give you the justification you need to jettison everyone.
Perhaps this is Selmon’s way of digging through the couch cushions for the little bit if extra money he needs for LED lights****
Surely that was a straw that broke the camel's back situation? That blunder could have had a direct impact on the recruiting results. Imagine you are about to sign expecting a certain coach/scheme/situation and you see the DC being interviewed in an empty office with what appears to be moving boxes. I'd be worried I was being lied to. Hutzler owns some of that too for an extreme lack of self awareness.
Exactly. The rot in our athletic dept goes all the way to the top of the university.
My son went to the other school and he had some friends that did the media, one now works for Texas, they ran circles around us and the kids get what other kids want on promoting the sports. We need to have a department that handles all of the sports promotion and do weekly things.
I have a feeling yesterday was the last straw. Like others have referenced, the product they have put out over the last 6 months looked pretty terrible. Looks like things came to a head with that fiasco yesterday.
Does this mean they actually could have done something to make the last 4 months more enjoyable ?
I'll take your word on the history. I don't get too worked up one way or the other on the social media stuff (I'm getting old and lame). That one yesterday though was glaringly lazy and got a ton of attention for the wrong reasons. Hate that it all came down to that and the timing sucks of course. Tough world out there...
Color me skeptical that Hutzler is going anywhere, except another office down the hall, perhaps. Why would he agree to be fired but then still work for a few more days? We know damn well that he didn’t get hired by anyone else.
And as far as “straw that broke the camel’s back”, that doesn’t make any sense. You let this department that nobody even knows exists do crappy work continuously until the one day of the year that some people MIGHT see something they do, then fire them that same day? Again, that’s awful leadership at the highest level.
If you are referring to the video that I'm thinking about, they moved it to between the 3rd and 4th quarters with sweet dreams being played.
At this point if you have to ask questions that's just going to tarnish your reputation and even more.
Most of them are unpaid interns. So, you'd probably be doing them a favor.
Just another area where we are letting Mississippi beat us. I went to an Egg Bowl game up there and they had Emeril on the big screen talking up the Rebels and leading their Hotty Toddy cheer. A fan told me they get a different famous personality for each game. Their media team is creative. Getting them on The Season was a great coup. They make it easy for ESPN so they get more exposure. We prefer to blame the media and feel sorry for ourselves. Typical State attitude.
Last edited: