DeLoss Dodds Retires: What Will Be His Legacy?

[Lord Vader]

DeLoss Dodds Retires: What Will Be His Legacy? - Horn Sports – Texas Longhorns football, basketball and baseball

Feedback/Discussion appreciated.

 

[bbdude]

Nice kudos. DeLoss did a lot for the University - Texas fans should always remember that he built us into a powerhouse. He is getting a lot of negative publicity these days but it cannot be underscored enough that he helped build the infrastructure we have today in the Athletic Department and Marketing arena. Texas is a US brand.

Thanks DeLoss for all the diligence and hard work.

 

[austinite]

I don't really watch other sports beside college football. So I'll judge Dodds based on his decision making there. However, since football is by far the most important sport at UT in terms of popularity and revenue, I believe Dodds' competence should be evaluated in a large part by how he has performed in this sport.

Dodds has been a major disappointment, to put it as mildly as I can.

For over 3 decades under Dodds, the Texas football program has been one of mediocrity and sometimes outright disaster. As explained in another thread, I totally disagree with most posters here that Mack Brown deserves any credit for the 2005 NC.

As AD, Dodds has the responsibility to hire the best coaches available at the least possible expenditure. Dodds has done almost the exact opposite - hiring the worst coaches available at the highest costs in college football history.

It's OK if Dodds initially hadn't the slightest clue about football coaching. What I find utterly offensive has been his failure in educating himself over the course of 3+ decades, his failure in seeking sound advice from experienced coaches, his failure in doing his own homework and research (due diligence), and his failure in taking timely remedial / corrective actions when a modest measure of common sense would suffice for the average person to see the blatant incompetence of his chosen man.

Dodds has failed to hire a single competent football coach in his 3+ decades of employment at UT (note: COACH, not recruiter - you don't pay 5 mil for a recruiter).

A few words about championships in other sports.

Texas has been one of the top schools in the country by enrollment. One benefit of large student population is the corresponding large number of sports talents. If on average 5 out of 100 students are talented in sports (5%), a school of 2000 will have about 100 students who are talented in sports; a school of 40,000 may expect 2000 talents.

If a school of 2000 has 200 who are talented in sports (10%), then it may be inferred that its athletics dept has an above-average management (coaches or administrators or both).

On the other hand if a school of 40000 has only 1000 talents (2.5%), then it may be inferred that its athletics dept has a below-average management (coaches or administrators or both).

However, a school with 1000 talents will have more championship opportunities than a school with 200 talents, even though the former is poorly managed.

My point: BEFORE one credits athletic achievements to the management, one should first seriously consider the above, as bad management can sometimes be hidden by the sheer number of students enrolled!!! (mathematics is very useful, and even the simplest application of probability analysis can be a powerful tool in uncovering mismanagement!!!) The above is just a start.

 

[beevomav]

Legacies are set years into the future, not the day after they retire, and certainly not by hot heads who have no idea what the guy has done.

He will be known as the AD that made UT the most profitable school in NCAA history. He won't be thought of lightly.

 

[austinite]

definition of "legacy" -

(1) something (such as property or money) that is received from a deceased.

(2) something that happened in the past or handed down from the past. (NOTE: the PAST, not FUTURE)

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I am of the impression that knowledge of basic words like "legacy" is supposed to have been mastered in junior high.

 

[UTK66]

Nice kudos. DeLoss did a lot for the University - Texas fans should always remember that he built us into a powerhouse. He is getting a lot of negative publicity these days but it cannot be underscored enough that he helped build the infrastructure we have today in the Athletic Department and Marketing arena. Texas is a US brand.
Thanks DeLoss for all the diligence and hard work.

Well said. You hit the nail on the head dude.

 

[UTK66]

I don't really watch other sports beside college football. So I'll judge Dodds based on his decision making there. However, since football is by far the most important sport at UT in terms of popularity and revenue, I believe Dodds' competence should be evaluated in a large part by how he has performed in this sport.
Dodds has been a major disappointment, to put it as mildly as I can.

For over 3 decades under Dodds, the Texas football program has been one of mediocrity and sometimes outright disaster. As explained in another thread, I totally disagree with most posters here that Mack Brown deserves any credit for the 2005 NC.

As AD, Dodds has the responsibility to hire the best coaches available at the least possible expenditure. Dodds has done almost the exact opposite - hiring the worst coaches available at the highest costs in college football history.

It's OK if Dodds initially hadn't the slightest clue about football coaching. What I find utterly offensive has been his failure in educating himself over the course of 3+ decades, his failure in seeking sound advice from experienced coaches, his failure in doing his own homework and research (due diligence), and his failure in taking timely remedial / corrective actions when a modest measure of common sense would suffice for the average person to see the blatant incompetence of his chosen man.

Dodds has failed to hire a single competent football coach in his 3+ decades of employment at UT (note: COACH, not recruiter - you don't pay 5 mil for a recruiter).

A few words about championships in other sports.

Texas has been one of the top schools in the country by enrollment. One benefit of large student population is the corresponding large number of sports talents. If on average 5 out of 100 students are talented in sports (5%), a school of 2000 will have about 100 students who are talented in sports; a school of 40,000 may expect 2000 talents.

If a school of 2000 has 200 who are talented in sports (10%), then it may be inferred that its athletics dept has an above-average management (coaches or administrators or both).

On the other hand if a school of 40000 has only 1000 talents (2.5%), then it may be inferred that its athletics dept has a below-average management (coaches or administrators or both).

However, a school with 1000 talents will have more championship opportunities than a school with 200 talents, even though the former is poorly managed.

My point: BEFORE one credits athletic achievements to the management, one should first seriously consider the above, as bad management can sometimes be hidden by the sheer number of students enrolled!!! (mathematics is very useful, and even the simplest application of probability analysis can be a powerful tool in uncovering mismanagement!!!) The above is just a start.

tl:dr

 

[UTK66]

Another pretty good write up about Dodds from Yahoo Sports:

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