Eric Hyman
Eric Hyman
Eric Hymanis a former athletic director at Texas A&M University. He has also served as athletic director of the University of South Carolina, Texas Christian University, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and The Virginia Military Institute...
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We'll go out and ride bikes after you practice. You'll have a hard time keeping up with me. But I'll put training wheels on your bike.
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We're coming closer to a resolution to this, and it will allow us to have 12 games. Ideally, like I've said, we'd like to play our traditional rivals the last game of the season.
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There is life after sports. What we're trying to do is give you some skills to be successful out in the real world. I promise you I will take people to dinner or lunch for interviews, and I will watch how they eat to see if they have proper manners. It tells so much about a person.
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We want to make sure our student-athletes have a good experience and it recognizes what took place this fall. But we want to make sure we operate as a business would operate and we operate in the black.
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I looked at him like he had three eyes. Ultimately though, if you look at the program now, he was right on target. If TCU had stayed, I don't think TCU would ever have had the success we had.
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It's a cultural change. What we want is to mirror our student bodies (in academic performance and graduation rates). This is putting consequences on people who are not headed in that direction.
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The way I look at it, you've got to do what makes sense. I wouldn't take (any possibility) off the table. Everything is on the table for me.
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It's just an announced crowd. I don't know that you could give an accurate count at a game. It's an announced crowd, unless somebody has a computerized system in place.
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Conference USA has been a terrific affiliation for us the last couple years, we want to make Conference USA the best possible conference it can be, ... But at the same time, we want to have a nationally prominent program, and we will always look for a vehicle with which we can achieve that.
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You can't measure the value he brings to the program. It's tremendous. At our first booster club meeting there were 1,000 to 2,000 people who wanted to listen to him talk.
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This is a tremendous accomplishment for our student-athletes. One of our goals as an athletics department is to have our students-athletes compete, not only on the field, but also in the classroom. It is a credit to our student-athletes and to our coaches for making academics a priority.
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There's no question that the Mountain West Conference wants to be a national program. Their focus is on the BCS. This is what they aspire to be, and these are the aspirations of TCU.
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I've agonized over this. I lay awake at night trying to think about, 'What is the right price for tickets?' You sense the demand, but I've got to be sensitive to our supporters.
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We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation.