IMHO, it's a good thing that these four are rotating off.

Remember: Virginia Newton is the ONLY board member who vocally protested Shelby being hired.  She has been the only true advocate for USM.  If we were losing her, I would be distraught.

Any new blood has to be better than the ones leaving.  Carl Nicholson?  I am GLAD he is gone.  And isn't the woman who is leaving (can't remember her name as I type) the one who asked Shelby if he was a "bootyologist?"  He said "no" and everyone dropped the ball--they accepted his answer instead of looking into allegations of misappropriation of funds and, uh, misuse of university staff.

I had heard that Bob Mixon and Jim Payne were being considered, yet their names are not in the list that WDAM mentioned last night on the news. 

There is an old adage about the possibility that the evil that one knows not being as bad as the evil that one does not know.  At this point, however, I can't imagine the four new members being any worse than the four rotating off, unless, somehow, Billy Hewes' name is on the list of incoming.  Can't see that happening, though.