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Athletic Directors on the Hot Seat
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I would not have been surprised if that article was entirely about Garcia and no one else.
02-19-2013 05:53 PM
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Throw Scott Farmer on that list, I doubt he makes it two more years with the Cajuns. We are not likely going to buy him out of his remaining contract, but I am almost 100% certain we will not renew his contract when it is up 18 months from now. He has screwed the pooch numerous times for several sports. He is just not the guy for a program trying to grow, he would be the guy for a program that is comfortable with the status quot.
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Todd Stewart is da MAN!
02-19-2013 06:26 PM
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(02-19-2013 06:00 PM)geauxcajuns Wrote:  Throw Scott Farmer on that list, I doubt he makes it two more years with the Cajuns. We are not likely going to buy him out of his remaining contract, but I am almost 100% certain we will not renew his contract when it is up 18 months from now. He has screwed the pooch numerous times for several sports. He is just not the guy for a program trying to grow, he would be the guy for a program that is comfortable with the status quot.

Wasn't there a thread about how much the budget has grown recently? Seems odd he would be on the hot seat list. Sounds like people want him to add a million people to the LaFayette MSA so CUSA will come calling.
02-19-2013 06:47 PM
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While I'm not a big fan of Garcia, he made great hires with Coach Pitino and baseball coach Turtle Thomas. Btw Cristobal did go 3-9 last year with a ton of talent. Is one year enough for a firing? I don't think so, but I do think Garcia thought he could get Butch Davis. To him, it was worth the risk. In my eyes, Pete Garcia has two strikes with Thomas and Turner. Three strikes and you're out.
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(02-19-2013 06:47 PM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  
(02-19-2013 06:00 PM)geauxcajuns Wrote:  Throw Scott Farmer on that list, I doubt he makes it two more years with the Cajuns. We are not likely going to buy him out of his remaining contract, but I am almost 100% certain we will not renew his contract when it is up 18 months from now. He has screwed the pooch numerous times for several sports. He is just not the guy for a program trying to grow, he would be the guy for a program that is comfortable with the status quot.

Wasn't there a thread about how much the budget has grown recently? Seems odd he would be on the hot seat list. Sounds like people want him to add a million people to the LaFayette MSA so CUSA will come calling.

Scott Farmer gave a contract extension to Robert Lee who led us to the worst 6 year stretch in MBB in the history of the program.

He also gave Errol Rogers a contract extension 4 years removed from having an at large bid to the NCAA Tourney under J Kelly Hall.

He is responsible for the resignation of Mike and Stefni Lotief, who head the very best program in the Sun Belt regardless of the sport. RCAF has over $50K on hand for support of the program to be used at the discretion of the HC. The money just has to be requested for use through the AD's office, which it was not. Most suspect that there is a personal vendetta between the Lotief's and Farmer.

Scott also granted an extension to Bob Marlin, who has yet to have a winning season in Lafayette. Marlin has also run more players than John Brady since he has arrived in Lafayette. But that 100K per yrear raise is sure worth it.

Farmer has also lied directly to the fan base regarding Tigue Moore renovations, even Robe was mislead. The major donor for the renovation was rooked in the Stafford Ponzi scheme and the money fell through. Instead of beating the bushes for donors, he stated everything was on track for renovations and even got state approval without having the money to do the renovations. The date set for groundbreaking came and the fan base was informed that we did not have the money to do the renovation.

There is much much more that I could list, but I am getting fired up just thinking about it.
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(02-19-2013 07:15 PM)Fish Wrote:  but I do think Garcia thought he could get Butch Davis.

He was delusinal too. Davis isn't going to go coach somewhere for 450-800K.
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UNT's should be on the list. Our sports have been a train wreck with all of the bad hires our AD has made, especially in the high profile sports.
02-20-2013 12:28 AM
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I wonder what it's like to not believe in your AD...
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(02-20-2013 01:00 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  I wonder what it's like to not believe in your AD...

I, too, wonder that.
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(02-19-2013 07:15 PM)Fish Wrote:  While I'm not a big fan of Garcia, he made great hires with Coach Pitino and baseball coach Turtle Thomas. Btw Cristobal did go 3-9 last year with a ton of talent. Is one year enough for a firing? I don't think so, but I do think Garcia thought he could get Butch Davis. To him, it was worth the risk. In my eyes, Pete Garcia has two strikes with Thomas and Turner. Three strikes and you're out.

Remember the Isiah Thomas hiring and Cristobal firing...I think that negates the hires you mentioned. As for the 3-9 season, he was forced to start a true freshman qb for the bulk of the season due to injury. Add to that the other injuries that he faced on the roster and 1 down year after what he inherited is allowed in my book.
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(02-20-2013 07:43 AM)WarhawkReport Wrote:  
(02-19-2013 07:15 PM)Fish Wrote:  While I'm not a big fan of Garcia, he made great hires with Coach Pitino and baseball coach Turtle Thomas. Btw Cristobal did go 3-9 last year with a ton of talent. Is one year enough for a firing? I don't think so, but I do think Garcia thought he could get Butch Davis. To him, it was worth the risk. In my eyes, Pete Garcia has two strikes with Thomas and Turner. Three strikes and you're out.

Remember the Isiah Thomas hiring and Cristobal firing...I think that negates the hires you mentioned. As for the 3-9 season, he was forced to start a true freshman qb for the bulk of the season due to injury. Add to that the other injuries that he faced on the roster and 1 down year after what he inherited is allowed in my book.

Ok first of all, I know the hires he made. My "two strikes" were referring to the hiring of Thomas and failing to get Butch Davis. Second, it is not true that EJ Hilliard started the "bulk of the season." He played the second half of the Louisville game, and started against Louisiana and ASU. He also started the last game against ULM. Thus he started 3 games. Not the bulk of the season. Our defense was the problem this past season where we had many seniors playing.

I think everyone is just assuming Turner will suck and thus Garcia made a bad hire. Maybe he will suck, but let's at least give him a chance.
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(02-19-2013 07:15 PM)Fish Wrote:  While I'm not a big fan of Garcia, he made great hires with Coach Pitino and baseball coach Turtle Thomas. Btw Cristobal did go 3-9 last year with a ton of talent. Is one year enough for a firing? I don't think so, but I do think Garcia thought he could get Butch Davis. To him, it was worth the risk. In my eyes, Pete Garcia has two strikes with Thomas and Turner. Three strikes and you're out.

I though FIU under-achieved in football in 2011 and didn't have a lot of fight in them. Last year in Jonesboro it was a tight game with FIU leading. ASU got a turnover and scored and the Panthers just looked like they flat gave up. In the bowl game, I felt like FIU had better talent but didn't have their heads screwed on.
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(02-20-2013 12:28 AM)Green Menace Wrote:  UNT's should be on the list. Our sports have been a train wreck with all of the bad hires our AD has made, especially in the high profile sports.

Never understood why the stadium push came so late. If that had been started in 2004 I don't think you sweat the student vote nearly as much.
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(02-20-2013 01:18 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(02-19-2013 07:15 PM)Fish Wrote:  While I'm not a big fan of Garcia, he made great hires with Coach Pitino and baseball coach Turtle Thomas. Btw Cristobal did go 3-9 last year with a ton of talent. Is one year enough for a firing? I don't think so, but I do think Garcia thought he could get Butch Davis. To him, it was worth the risk. In my eyes, Pete Garcia has two strikes with Thomas and Turner. Three strikes and you're out.

I though FIU under-achieved in football in 2011 and didn't have a lot of fight in them. Last year in Jonesboro it was a tight game with FIU leading. ASU got a turnover and scored and the Panthers just looked like they flat gave up. In the bowl game, I felt like FIU had better talent but didn't have their heads screwed on.

I completely agree with this assessment. Which is why the idea of firing Cristobal has been growing on me. Yes he brought FIU out of nowhere, but the program clearly plateaued over the past two seasons while the rest of the Sun Belt improved.
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Are we allowed to put our own AD on the hot seat even if they were just awarded an extension? Please?
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I am beginning to think that one of an AD's easiest tasks to complete is to get an extension.
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