(12-05-2015 12:11 AM)uiniu57 Wrote: Is anyone listening to this post-game B.S.?
Contrary to what some of you may think based on my other posts when anger gets the better of me, I am proud of NIU having been in a sixth straight MAC Championship. I appreciate the effort put forth by all the Huskies, even someone as green as Fiedler. I understand Monday morning quarterbacking is a fact from every fan as is second-guessing coaches and coordinators.
Now what disappoints me is that a third-year coach acts the way Carey does. This was undoubtedly a tough loss, but Carey has to know by now that win or lose there is a post-game show he is contracted to appear on; there are sponsors paying bucks for that. How can he take so much longer to come out and talk? If he addresses the team with the same half-ass, three-word responses he used for every post-game question, he certainly shouldn't have taken that long in the locker room. He might be a better Xs and Os coach than he gets credit for, perhaps he's smoother as a recruiter -- HOWEVER, he is terrible with the media. He comes across as an angry, impatient, short-tempered, condescending jerk. Yes, it's understandably frustrating, disappointing and hard to swallow when you get outplayed, hosed by officiating or simply don't catch a break, but just like coaches expect the players to suck it up, refocus and play harder, smarter and better on the next snap, Carey should have improved on this aspect of coaching by now. Any administrator listening to his post-game radio interviews should be having a chat with him.
His won-loss record overall, impressive.
His record vs. Toledo, WMU, etc., outstanding.
His coaching, far better than most people give him credit.
His recruiting, appears to be building on what has been built.
His post-game radio interviews, increasingly pitiful.
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How does NIU keep a Head Coach who has taken us to the MACC three times in a row and pay him $400 000?
($400 000 is a huge salary for someone who is not a Div 1a Head Coach. If Toledo has had Beckmann goto U.I for $2.9 M; WMU's cubit now HC of U.I. for a multi million $ salary for the sake of continuity, Campbell to ISU for well over $1Million ? $1.4 million, and BGSU HC Dino Babers to Syracuse for I guess well over $1M.)
It's like hiring a McDonalds worker for $2.50/hour and com plaining that the worker is not in the top 80% percentile, because our town really loves our MacDonalds!
Does anyone see the irony of this thread?
Why have so many schools who have under-performed with a HC budget three- seven times NIU's, not hired Coach Carey?
Carey has three MAC WEst titles. Campbell has one, Cubit has none, Beckman had ?
Babers had maybe three MAC EAst titles 0-3 against Toledo ?? 2 MACC ?? vs Carey 1 MACC while CUBIT,Beckman have zero MACC
PJ has 1 MAC WEst title and a well deserved $800 0000. For those who wish to argue PJ got NIU to its 6th consecutive Detroit trip.
Everyone wants better performance on the FB field, but what about a reality dose?
It took Joe Novak ten years to goto Detroit and he never went back.
Jerry KIll started the NIU FB dynasty that has made 6 straight trips to Detroit.
For $400 000 a year NIU is getting better value than maybe any other Div 1a FB team in the country.
2013 12-2
2014 11-3
2015 8-5 with many injuries.
31-10 or going 10-3 every year with a trip to Detroit and we pay him the lowest salary in the MAC?
We should be thanking Coach Carey for staying on and give him a 50% and a higher buyout instead of demanding an 11-2 yearly performance.
As a fan who appreciates and savors every NIU FB victory, I am asking myself how long can this last?
If NIU FB was a stock, I would sell it short based on Carey leaving and no assistant of great calibre being willing to accept a job with a company that does not reward it according to market standards even in the lowest or second lowest paid Div1a FB league.
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