The Dallas Morning News have a feature article on Bill Byrne and his plan for 'Building Champions'. My problem with this article is that of the 6 conference titles we won, 5 were in women's sports (women's basketball, track & field, soccer, golf, and women's swimming & diving), 1 was the Big 12 baseball conference tournament title. The article notes that we had a $35 million dollar budget in 2002 when Byrne was hired; our budget is now $70 million dollars. Ignoring the fact that our budget increase can be directly tied to exorbitant increases in ticket prices for many sports (football tickets alone went up 41% from 2002 to 2003), shouldn't we be getting more of a return on our investment in the revenue sports, like football and basketball, if we're bringing in so much money? Men's basketball went to the Sweet Sixteen last season, and considering how far we've come as a program in that sport, that is phenomenal, but football has been a glaring disappointment. We've had two losing seasons since Fran was hired, and set a slew of records of the worst-ever variety (worst ever loss, worst bowl loss, biggest margin of victory in a loss to a conference opponent, etc).
Doesn't Bill Byrne deserve some criticism for his lack of leadership in regards to our football program?
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