Sadly I have to agree with W.J. Johnson in that some very positive things have happened on the watch of SFT.  Sure some programs have suffered greatly (English for instance).  Others, though, have thrived.  The question, though, involves the credit for the good things achieved under SFT.  Is he to get the credit?  In my view he should get very little of the kudos for what has gone right.  Programs that have done well have done so, by in large, due to the hard work of the faculty involved in those programs.  Hard working and dedicated faculty.  Faculty who have been here long enough to earn a national name.  This success, then, is due to Dr. Lucas.  He hired those faculty who are now entering the prime of their academic lives.  The movers and shakers on campus are his doing.  We can expect to see the real success or failure of SFT ten years down the road, when the faculty he hired enter the prime of their academic lives.  The job market is packed, thus we will get some very good new hires.  However, it is my bet that ten years from now posters on the future version of this board will wonder why USM is lagging -- it will be the sad legacy of SFT.  So my thanks to Dr. Lucas -- he hired the right folks and gave them an atmosphere for success.  SFT is running off those same folks in droves, and his legacy is far more clouded.