(06-20-2017 09:45 AM)Rick Gerlach Wrote: (06-20-2017 09:08 AM)Tomball Owl Wrote: (06-20-2017 09:00 AM)usmbacker Wrote: Posted this on the CUSA board. In case you haven't seen it. Click on the pic..
Exciting read until you get to the last two paragraphs.
Signing day is important for all programs. Still, I prefer having good news now, than no news or just a little news.
I thought of something one of my compadres said many moons ago ---- the law firm I was with was undergoing "reduction", and my compadre and myself had a subtask from the head honcho partner of the section to rate and assess the 1st years to the 6th years for that reduction. Word somehow leaked out into the section that my compadre and myself were engaged in this; and during drinks I mentioned to my compadre how much quicker the turnaround time came in getting the junior associate's work product back to us.
My compadre remarked: Work quality and turnaround time rises at an astonishingly fast rate and to much higher levels during times like this.
Kudos to Bailiff for the passel of recruits in the last couple of days. But, as I alluded to in the story above, perhaps the spectre of the last year ticking out on that contract has lit a fire with DB.
I am somewhat astonished he is still at Rice; given that after the beginning of summer workouts I cannot fathom at all how the FB staff could recruit *anybody* given the "up in the airness" of his contract.
Being recruited by DB without the contract going forward strikes me akin to being offered a job at Bear Stearns in October 2008....
But I guess having contracts ticking out with head coaches of two of the three major men's sports with no seeming plan forward, even for recruiting purposes, seems de riguer now for the AD office at this point.