It seems to me the Hunter Clarke departure raises yet again this issue: We can be genuine fans, participate on this board, watch games on maddening Pluto and invest emotionally in their outcomes, and yet the Program seldom returns the favor in any sort of public relations way. Everything is behind a one-way mirror. Thus:
--We can listen to a pre-season DeCuire interview filled with vague generalizations and obtuse references about the team and have no clue that Josh Bannan must be looking good because lo! he's in the starting lineup against USC; or that Brandon Whitney and Robbie Beasely are two freshman who will have an impact.
--Derrick Carter-Hollinger can suddenly disappear from the lineup altogether and leave us to wonder, is he hurt? In the doghouse? Off the team? Only to have an announcer before the UDub game tell us, "Oh, he was in concussion protocol."
--Players come and players go and not a peep from anyone. Hunter Clarke can can leave the program, even though his brother is a Graduate Manager, and all we're left with is, "Hunter, we hardly knew ye."
You might say the same for the entire Men's program. From a public relations standpoint, it might as well be a deaf mute. It's got about as much personality as the CIA--at least that's the way it acts.
--We can listen to a pre-season DeCuire interview filled with vague generalizations and obtuse references about the team and have no clue that Josh Bannan must be looking good because lo! he's in the starting lineup against USC; or that Brandon Whitney and Robbie Beasely are two freshman who will have an impact.
--Derrick Carter-Hollinger can suddenly disappear from the lineup altogether and leave us to wonder, is he hurt? In the doghouse? Off the team? Only to have an announcer before the UDub game tell us, "Oh, he was in concussion protocol."
--Players come and players go and not a peep from anyone. Hunter Clarke can can leave the program, even though his brother is a Graduate Manager, and all we're left with is, "Hunter, we hardly knew ye."
You might say the same for the entire Men's program. From a public relations standpoint, it might as well be a deaf mute. It's got about as much personality as the CIA--at least that's the way it acts.