Why is gene talking?
I don't know but for the first time since he's been here I think he's behaving as if he's over his head. I thought he also talked too much about the Stanford game.
I can't think of any good that could've come from him even being in a position to be asked things this weekend. And nobody was even clamoring to hear from him anyway. It's not like people are going to not buy tickets to the fOOD the rest of the season if they don't hear things they want to hear from him.
I was stunned that he gave one on the record interviews, but two! Holy crap! He'll probably be on with John Kurtz tomorrow as well, so it will likely be 3 interviews in just over 24 hours.
There are only two reasons I can think of and they're both really bad reasons to go out stammering without solid talking points.
1. His boss asked him to try to lower the temperature. Of course this does the exact opposite.
2. Despite him saying most donors are not getting involved, which btw is literally the case everywhere, some are absolutely losing their crap behind the scenes and he panicked.
Like I said either way, it's a bad look and while I'll always take athletic directors going on the record, for his sake he needs to limit his visibility to his ask the ad videos for a long while.