This X 1,000,000! Our Gameday experience is so stale and dated! Been doing the same stupid crap with the same stupid songs since I was in college almost 30 years ago!
The football media team was fired yesterday
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Would make sense. They've been equally crap in the quality of their work.
Send the 
with them. You can blame them for it.
with them. You can blame them for it.They have had the celebrity leading the cheer for a long time. Some Ole Miss alum is an entertainment lawyer with a lot of connections.
Also I think some higher up at ESPN is also a big Ole Miss supporter.
I can’t speak on the quality of their work. I don’t know what they do, can’t say I’ve been particularly impressed or disappointed with their work.
But based on that thread, obviously one side of the story, it seems like a bad look from the school.
Are they eliminating the department? That would make sense. We tried it, it didn’t work, it happens. But you can give some advance notice in that case.
Did you just really hate the job they did and will replace them? Then it seems like it would be better to replace the leader and let the new guy make staffing decisions. Everyone on that team can’t possibly be that bad at their job.
Again, there’s a lot I don’t know. It’s possible they all had contracts through December and all along knew this was a possibility. But it seems like this could have been handled better.
But based on that thread, obviously one side of the story, it seems like a bad look from the school.
Are they eliminating the department? That would make sense. We tried it, it didn’t work, it happens. But you can give some advance notice in that case.
Did you just really hate the job they did and will replace them? Then it seems like it would be better to replace the leader and let the new guy make staffing decisions. Everyone on that team can’t possibly be that bad at their job.
Again, there’s a lot I don’t know. It’s possible they all had contracts through December and all along knew this was a possibility. But it seems like this could have been handled better.
Is that what the QR codes references were about? I read that in the comments under his tweets and wasnt sure what complaints about QR codes referred to.
I dont give a 17 about signing day, so I didnt follow closely follow the drama.
ETA- I just went onto X to find tweets about players and saw the QR. Yeah thats worthless for anyone looking at X on their phone.
For those who give a 17, I could see that being really frustrating.
We had a great Media Team before Cohen ran them off
They've done this for years.
They've been lapping us in exposure for decades. All the pieces of how great the grove is, redshirting Miss Americans, how great Oxford is, party school, etc., they're all manufactured by the university and their fans are on board echoing the narrative. Meanwhile our AD is doing nothing and our fans are shitting on our program.
Maybe the QR thing was cool to tech geeks, but it included extra steps than just opening X or IG and looking at graphics and videos with your eyeballs. And even if the augmented reality thing just magically appeared on my phone without me having to download an app from the app store, the finished product was just okay. Definitely not worth having to put about a how-to video to explain it to Pops who's 65 and just wants to see a picture and some highlights.
The QR code was an innovative idea, but one of them talked about needing to look at user ease more closely. That should be tested many times before rolling out. It was not usable without a second device.
you definitely don’t try it out on football signing day!
I posted this yesterday. 5-10 years ago we had one of the best creative teams in the country. Cohen ran the leader off and now he's at Oklahoma. This group that was fired yesterday - while I hate it for them, were not very good. The lead was well liked by Saban but look at his replacement - Alabama did some amazing work this year in creative.
5-10 years ago, Mark Cuban was on record praising our marketing efforts. That group is at Clemson now.
We have a **** show throughout our athletic department.
5-10 years ago, Mark Cuban was on record praising our marketing efforts. That group is at Clemson now.
We have a **** show throughout our athletic department.
100%. More proof of a systemic failure
We are letting more than Ole Miss beat us.
And it’s a damned shame, too
I hate admitting this but OM smokes our a** in social media presence. I think it’s stupid but it makes a difference and it has contributed to them looking like the “cool” school. Something has to be done because State is way behind.
Keenum: getting a lot of pressure from boosters about the defensive staff. What are your thoughts on letting some of them go.
Selmon: Lebby vetoed that idea.
Keenum: we need to fire someone before it’s us.
Selmon: what about the video crew?
Keenum: so be it.
Selmon: Lebby vetoed that idea.
Keenum: we need to fire someone before it’s us.
Selmon: what about the video crew?
Keenum: so be it.
Do an awful job and you get fired. I fail to see what is hard to understand about this?
well, how big IS she?***
It’s not often that people who are fired are given a reason. It’s an HR/CYA-in-case-of-litigation issue.
Your assessment is not typical in my experience. I’ve seen plenty of people being notified of poor performance yet do nothing to remedy it. Those people bury their head. Even after working through performance plans, they do nothing differently so it has absolutely nothing to do with leadership but everything to do with a person not suited to do the job. Then those people get upset that they’ve been wronged. The only wrong they suffered was being given an opportunity to do a job they can’t actually do. This is a pretty rampant problem in our country today: it’s always someone else’s fault.
What's nuts to me is that the phones aren't able to let you just click a QR code on a website or on a graphic WITHOUT needing to have a camera.
There’s probably an App for that but you need to download an iOS update so you can add the app only to discover that you don’t have enough available space!
The administration finally fires somebody that everybody here was b*tching about and now yall are defending them and trying to blame Selmon. How ridiculous. Maybe they decided to fire them now because the season is basically over. No more hype videos to do next Saturday. I'm stored. Now that they are making improvements let's hire a new DL coach that is willing to recruit
HR is going to want you to have a file for the very reason of avoiding litigation. Particularly with protected class. It’s also common decency.
Well either selmon didn’t hire them and he’s getting rid of the dead weight.
or
selmon hired them and he realized they suck so he’s getting rid of them.
neither option fits the narrative
Some employees just suck. A lot of them actually.
I know you can’t admit that.
Why are clear expectations needed to update the signees on national signing day?
how about score updates on game day after half?
My favorite part of the thread was where he opened the university to an age discrimination lawsuit with the under 28 comment.
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