(11-09-2013 08:35 AM)MajorHoople Wrote: According to footballscoop.com there is a mysterious recording of English addressing the team that was presented to Lyke before the firing...
http://footballscoop.com/news/11520-ron-...n-michigan
Okay, that appears to be the smoking gun which connects all the dots and closes the loop. The posts in the thread make it abundantly clear in the FootballScoop staff member's opinion that EMU had no choice but to fire English 'for cause'. We're seen it with a number of coaches who cross the line in some way, e.g., Mike Leach, the coach at W. Ky (damn forgot his name), coaches at FAU, etc.
It appears that within 24 hours (actually less than 20) that we have a very good idea what has happened.
It appears that he has been fired 'for cause' and therefore that firing would negate any protections which he might have had in his contract.
Those coaching contracts (the ones I've seen, e.g., Murphy, Genyk, etc.) are full of clauses regarding 'for cause' termination and English has apparently gone 'over the line' if footballscoop.com is correct.
EDIT: The sad thing for English is that this really hurts his reputation. Footballscoop.com is where coaches, etc. go for info about the coaching profession. We've here (on this board) used that site for info regarding head and assistant coach search info. This could hurt English as he looks for his next coaching job.