Don't know if it'll make you guys feel better, but multiple media outlets are reporting that Babers has already accepted the UCF job, so he's all but left even before the MACC.
So, there are shittier ways to go.
No good way to go.
Would appreciate it if when coaches were asked if they were interviewing or pursuing other jobs they just said "no comment", or "I only discuss the team I coach".
Holy cow. Yeah, this definitely makes me feel a little bit better. What a dick leaving 5 days before the league title. All these coaches that stress loyalty and the "process" that is supposedly for the program and not just the coach stressing it are a load of crap nowadays. Life in the MAC sucks. Definitely feel for BG.
Base pay for an AAC HC is around $1.5 million. O'Leary was getting $1.89 million plus up to $750,000 in bonuses.
As a huge Mid-American Conference Fan, this is what I hate the most, about this conference. This stuff happens to MAC schools every year. As a MAC fan, there is only one thing we can do about this-accept it. There isn't any point at all to get upset about it. You just need to be happy, that the coach left the program better, than when he got it.
Taking the dumpster fire of a job at UCF makes taking the ISU job look like a brilliant move.
(11-29-2015 09:16 PM)Rocket A Wrote: [ -> ]Taking the dumpster fire of a job at UCF makes taking the ISU job look like a brilliant move.
Guess it's at least warm in Florida?
Jordan Strack tweeted that this deal is not done yet. He then tweeted that Dino's buyout right now is $300k. On 12/1, it drops to $200k. So he's probably waiting a couple days to save himself (or UCF) $100k.
(11-29-2015 08:59 PM)BroncoBen Wrote: [ -> ]As a huge Mid-American Conference Fan, this is what I hate the most, about this conference. This stuff happens to MAC schools every year. As a MAC fan, there is only one thing we can do about this-accept it. There isn't any point at all to get upset about it. You just need to be happy, that the coach left the program better, than when he got it.
The exception was Gary Pinkel. He had long run here and he built a legacy for those who followed. No one was upset with him when the time came for him to leave for Missouri, as I recall. People understood and wished him the best. He was a class act, here and at Missouri.
This situation feels different. You know Campbell preached putting the "team first" to his players, but then he bolted at the first opportunity for the $$ and left the team high and dry before the bowl game because he was looking out for Number One.
It's not like Iowa State is anyone's idea of a dream job. Its more like a sentence to the Siberia of P5C college football. I am still having a hard time believing that this was the best he could do, if he was determined to leave.
Just another round of, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
Well, who doesn't.
(11-29-2015 08:32 PM)adunifon Wrote: [ -> ]No good way to go.
Would appreciate it if when coaches were asked if they were interviewing or pursuing other jobs they just said "no comment", or "I only discuss the team I coach".
Agree---how difficult could it be to just refuse to discuss it? Everybody knows that they are being or going to be approached anyway so why lie about it?----of course in the BIG TV $$$$ world of P5 football/entertainment such lies are not only condoned they are expected. Oh well, it is just a fact of life that loss of integrity always seems to be the first sacrifice demanded of those entering the world of BIG $$$$ P5 football.
(11-29-2015 09:34 PM)Henry Burlingame Wrote: [ -> ] (11-29-2015 08:59 PM)BroncoBen Wrote: [ -> ]As a huge Mid-American Conference Fan, this is what I hate the most, about this conference. This stuff happens to MAC schools every year. As a MAC fan, there is only one thing we can do about this-accept it. There isn't any point at all to get upset about it. You just need to be happy, that the coach left the program better, than when he got it.
The exception was Gary Pinkel. He had long run here and he built a legacy for those who followed. No one was upset with him when the time came for him to leave for Missouri, as I recall. People understood and wished him the best. He was a class act, here and at Missouri.
This situation feels different. You know Campbell preached putting the "team first" to his players, but then he bolted at the first opportunity for the $$ and left the team high and dry before the bowl game because he was looking out for Number One.
It's not like Iowa State is anyone's idea of a dream job. Its more like a sentence to the Siberia of P5C college football. I am still having a hard time believing that this was the best he could do, if he was determined to leave.
MC must be $$$ crazy. Which is in line with my cousin's statement, who played with him in HS: "He's a narcissistic a****. I hated him."
Every coach leaves this way- Beckman, IIRC Clawson, Denny Stoltz decades ago. And if they don't they can get fired just as callously and quickly. Nature of the beast.
(11-29-2015 10:34 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote: [ -> ]Every coach leaves this way- Beckman, IIRC Clawson, Denny Stoltz decades ago. And if they don't they can get fired just as callously and quickly. Nature of the beast.
Look what can happen when a coach stays too long. From a couple years ago.
http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/a...56.html...
Quote:FIU fired Cristobal, who turned down more lucrative jobs at Rutgers and the University of Pittsburgh in the last year to stay at FIU, 11 days after the Panthers finished a disappointing 2012 season with a 3-9 record.
I don't wish him well. I don't wish him anything bad either. I'm just pi$$ed at what he did when the game on Friday meant so much. He already knew he was gone during the game. Looked like he didn't bother to get the team fired up either. Those details just happened to elude him - like they did against NIU.
I take that back - I do wish him something - that he never again faces a game as important to any of his future teams as he did on Friday. But, if he does, I hope he loses it and then gets fired. He left for the money, let him see what that leads to in the long run. If he is very successful and can escape the pink slip for a decade or two - then he is way ahead of most everyone else in that profession - and he deserves the best. He will have earned it (well, as much as any football coach earns that kind of money - that is what is insane to me).
(11-29-2015 08:29 PM)BarsemaBone2 Wrote: [ -> ]Don't know if it'll make you guys feel better, but multiple media outlets are reporting that Babers has already accepted the UCF job, so he's all but left even before the MACC.
So, there are shittier ways to go.
It does help a little bit
(11-29-2015 11:25 PM)TJRocket Wrote: [ -> ] (11-29-2015 08:29 PM)BarsemaBone2 Wrote: [ -> ]Don't know if it'll make you guys feel better, but multiple media outlets are reporting that Babers has already accepted the UCF job, so he's all but left even before the MACC.
So, there are shittier ways to go.
It does help a little bit
(11-29-2015 11:29 PM)Campbell4President Wrote: [ -> ] (11-29-2015 11:25 PM)TJRocket Wrote: [ -> ] (11-29-2015 08:29 PM)BarsemaBone2 Wrote: [ -> ]Don't know if it'll make you guys feel better, but multiple media outlets are reporting that Babers has already accepted the UCF job, so he's all but left even before the MACC.
So, there are shittier ways to go.
It does help a little bit
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