Trouble with the Trust

The folks at the H------ Memorial Trust put on a good show, but there continue to be concerns about their ability to manage some basic details. Every year, I send 'em notes about glitches and missing data on their website, but they never bother to fix 'em. (For example, the 1988 page doesn't tell us how many voters voted that year - while every other year includes that info. Especially important because the number of voters changed dramatically in either 1988 or 1989.)

But their incompetence doesn't just extend to annoying researchers with website edits. It extends to the official H------ voters, too.

Here's an email we got from one major East Coast sports reporter:

I'd love to share my vote, but I don't have one. The H------ committee continues to send out ballots to retired reporters at our paper, as well as reporters who have not covered college football in more than a decade. Repeated phone calls have resulted in apologies and pledges to rectify the situation, only to have it repeated the following year. I have simply thrown up my hands and stopped trying.

And from another sports reporter - one who is an official voter:

When I lived in [----------------], I got a vote from that region. But I moved to [----------------] in 1990; for the last couple years they've been sending me two ballots. I wasn't sure what was going on -- if they'd heard from my wife that I was irresponsible and they should send me two -- but [they] cleared it up last week.

Wow. It just can't be that hard to manage a list of a thousand sports reporters or so.

Kari Chisholm | December 7, 2006 | Comment on This Post (0 so far)
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