Bye Angel

[gmubrian]

While I think he generally did well for Mason and seemed to invest more in basketball than Merten, I just didn’t like him personally. Maybe if I had never met him, never had the experience of sitting next to him at a basketball game, and never followed him on Twitter I might have had a more favorable opinion of him. After they sat him next to me at a game, I requested they never do that again. Fortunately, they never did again.

Along the lines of GSII, he just wasn’t personable. He just didn’t come off as sincere. Just last year a friend, who is an alum, told me he introduced his boss to him to talk about donating to Mason. After talking to him, his boss told my friend to he never wanted to talk to that “used car salesmen” again.

So, he seemed to leave similar impressions with other people as well. Not sad to see him go, but there is a risk of getting a dud. If I had to, I’d choose Cabrera over Merten, though, because I can ignore the likability issues with Cabrera as long as it doesn’t hinder his building the necessary relationships.

What I want out of the next president is Men’s basketball, more Men’s basketball, and finally, more men’s basketball. I know it won’t happen, but one can dream.

 

[KAOriginal]

I'm waiting to see what "disadvantaged check box" the BOV wants to mark off with this next hire....

 

[phoenix-arizona]

The Romani

 

[Walter]

While I think he generally did well for Mason and seemed to invest more in basketball than Merten, I just didn’t like him personally. Maybe if I had never met him, never had the experience of sitting next to him at a basketball game, and never followed him on Twitter I might have had a more favorable opinion of him. After they sat him next to me at a game, I requested they never do that again. Fortunately, they never did again.

You are going to have to elaborate on that. I sat behind him at a game and I don't recall him doing much other than talking to his wife and looking at his phone.

 

[GMUgemini]

I'm looking for someone who has a vision beyond just "the largest public university in Virginia."

 

[Herndon]

The Romani

I'll be damned if I'm going to have the gypsies running GMU

 

[Mason2005]

I liked Angel. He brought back the slogan "basketball is the front door of the University". Good luck to him on his next phase.

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[gmubrian]

You are going to have to elaborate on that. I sat behind him at a game and I don't recall him doing much other than talking to his wife and looking at his phone.

So, imagine you are the one he is talking to, incessantly, and not about the game, because he can’t talk about the game because his nose has been in the phone the whole time. Then, when there is a break in the game, you try to make a polite reply to his conversation, and he really isn’t listening, he is just focused on his phone. He really wasn’t making conversation, he was just talking at you. And this goes on for the entire game.

 

[Cedric Dempsey]

I'm looking for someone who has a vision beyond just "the largest public university in Virginia."

I see it quite differently from everything I’ve read about him. He is currently the news in higher education. Your value has risen massively in my opinion.
1) R-1 Carnegie research status established and retained. Tier One universities are regarded as the top universities, known for their academic and research excellence.
2) Amazon collaboration with the Commonwealth matching construction costs. Thousands of future students expected to be added to the initiative. Huge competitive negative for many other Commonwealth schools.
3) $600 mil development campaign for an institution that is basically 50 years old.
4) Dealt with the overzealousness of a prior admin that had piled enormous debt and failure in Dubai campus along with a failed hotel on campus and an opera house in Manassas, of all places, that was hemmoraging debt. Also handed him a fledgling Korean enterprise.
5) Worked with state government to acquire massive funding for Robinson Hall academic re-do. Huge fossil and eyesore that by all accounts needed to go, to be replaced by a focal point academic structure in campus center.

He seems to have had a slightly broader agenda than enrollment.

 

[GSII]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.freep.com/amp/1262627001

 

[Cedric Dempsey]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.freep.com/amp/1262627001

A great article.

 

[mason89]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.freep.com/amp/1262627001

Nice to see a Schar School professor getting quoted in a Detroit newspaper!

 

[p8triotfan4life]

I think the consensus just by reading twitter is that GMU students hated Cabrera in general.

Perhaps it was a good move for both parties.

 

[Falco]

I think the consensus just by reading twitter is that GMU students hated Cabrera in general.

Perhaps it was a good move for both parties.

Mason needs a president who has a plan to shed the commuter school reputation. Cabrera was never going to do that.

 

[Falco]

Hopefully the next president revokes parking privileges from freshman residents. It would help keep students on campus, and forces frats to use Uber instead of pledges for parties.

 

[GMUgemini]

I think the consensus just by reading twitter is that GMU students hated Cabrera in general.

Perhaps it was a good move for both parties.

A lot of students hated Merten while I was there, too (probably for killing their dreams for football). That didn’t necessarily make him a bad president.

 

[Cedric Dempsey]

Mason needs a president who has a plan to shed the commuter school reputation. Cabrera was never going to do that.

It is a virtual certainty that a major public university located in an urban center has a responsibility to it’s regional demographics. Ask Arizona State and Louisville. Ask Temple and Charlotte. Ask UCF and USF. Your very successful business model is also built extensively on that tuition revenue and fees minus room and board hassles. Say good bye to your current state funding for projects like Robinson if you alter the mission. Do the math on 40,000 and then do the math on 17,000 FTE. Your institution will never abandon the mission it was founded on in my opinion. It’s all about how you manage the reality of where you are located. Now how big you grow it is altogether another issue.

 

[PoorManProfit]

Let the football debate begin anew ....

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Fine, but the fact that G Mas doesn't have a men's lax program is a joke.

 

[Cedric Dempsey]

Fine, but the fact that G Mas doesn't have a men's lax program is a joke.

You saying to add it now? Would love to hear how you finance the sport including scholarship, operation, salaries, infra-structure support and Title IX implications.

 

[Falco]

You saying to add it now? Would love to hear how you finance the sport including scholarship, operation, salaries, infra-structure support and Title IX implications.

The same way any other school does it lol.