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Thread topic = football coach. kthx


Great get by us! Getting even more amp'd for Aug.

Completely related to our final bball decision is that we need to have money for these football hires , btw.

(04-08-2013 09:21 PM)Dominion Wrote:  Clearly, nobody really thinks this is a bad football hire ... We're having fun with our conspiracy-minded hot headed friend. Excellent football hire. And, look up cronyism.

I'm glad you think the destruction of our basketball program is funny. I'm glad you think that wood lying to the fanbase is funny.

I'm reallyyyyyyy glad you have a degree from odu and don't know what the word cronyism actually means since you are actually implying that is not what happened with wood and jones.

It takes a lot of effort to be that blind.

Who said I graduated from ODU? And, if you think back, I called this direction with Dr. Selig and basketball quite a while ago. So ... I have not even a little bit of surprise in me about any of this. Including your reaction.

One last post related to basketball... and football sort of. I was told by someone in the AD that money was not an issue in the coaching search. I found that interesting because I really thought that football money played a role in the less than stellar hire.

(04-08-2013 09:05 PM)Hassell4prez Wrote:  We should check to see when he put his house up for sale.

Because if he did it 13.5 days ago this is probably insider trading.

I'm selling my season tickets.

:pbjtime:LMAO

The last three paragraphs in Harry's article really show this guy's credentials. Great hire.

Someone turned the lights on..the cockroaches are scurrying ..

(04-08-2013 09:21 PM)Razor Ramon Monarch Wrote:  No cronyism applies when you skip over better qualified candidates (and dont evej suggest for a second that there were no better candidates out there at all), lie to the entire fanbase about who the final candidates are, the style of play you want to play and then hire your good buddy to take the job.

It's really sad that some of our more impressionable fans lack the common sense to see the difference, but at this point, it's hardly surprising.

Who were the better candidates, why were they the better candidates, and why were they not offered?

CRONYISM!

Those inside connections do have some good to them too! But in all seriousness, this looks like an excellent hire. Great job Wilder!! (Become our AD please..?)

This clearly says for football. NOT basketball. If you want to talk about the basketball hire, there are like 3 or 4 other threads on that. Just saying.

Here's some more info from the ODU website:

http://www.odusports.com/sports/m-footbl...13aaa.html

I like it, and I'm glad it's official now. Football season can't get here fast enough.

(04-16-2013 05:29 PM)smudge12 Wrote:  Not really related, but I was working at an elementary school today and got into small talk with a special education teacher. He asked me where I went to school and I said ODU. He replies, "My main man Angus Harper played there!" It turns out he's also an assistant coach at Edison HS. I jokingly asked him to send more guys our way, after which he went on praise-spree about Bobby and ODU football.

Today, on awkward conversations...