(11-24-2022 10:19 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: If you're going to fire your current coach, and planning to get the new guy onboard in time for recruiting, transfer portal, staff hiring, and continuity, you need to have fired the current guy already and to be in negotiations with the successor already. Rice clearly is not therewith Bloomgren.
Karlgaard will have to act quickly. Surely he knew that there was a high probability that he'd need a new coach at the end of this season, so hopefully he has done some homework and already identified a small pool of candidates. He'll need a new coach by December 15th.
That’s too late. Signing day is Dec 21 and the dead period starts Dec 18. I agree with numbers, win or lose, Bloom will still be the coach on Dec 15.
(11-24-2022 10:19 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: If you're going to fire your current coach, and planning to get the new guy onboard in time for recruiting, transfer portal, staff hiring, and continuity, you need to have fired the current guy already and to be in negotiations with the successor already. Rice clearly is not therewith Bloomgren.
Karlgaard will have to act quickly. Surely he knew that there was a high probability that he'd need a new coach at the end of this season, so hopefully he has done some homework and already identified a small pool of candidates. He'll need a new coach by December 15th.
That’s too late. Signing day is Dec 21 and the dead period starts Dec 18. I agree with numbers, win or lose, Bloom will still be the coach on Dec 15.
Rice never fires a coach mid-season. It will always be an inconvenience as far recruiting is concerned.
But you guys may be right. We're headed to a bowl game after all, and going to a better conference. The AD may think Bloomgren can capitalize on it. He wants Bloom. This is all playing out in his favor.
Anyway, I hope we play well and we all feel better about this soon
(11-24-2022 10:19 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: If you're going to fire your current coach, and planning to get the new guy onboard in time for recruiting, transfer portal, staff hiring, and continuity, you need to have fired the current guy already and to be in negotiations with the successor already. Rice clearly is not therewith Bloomgren.
Karlgaard will have to act quickly. Surely he knew that there was a high probability that he'd need a new coach at the end of this season, so hopefully he has done some homework and already identified a small pool of candidates. He'll need a new coach by December 15th.
That’s too late. Signing day is Dec 21 and the dead period starts Dec 18. I agree with numbers, win or lose, Bloom will still be the coach on Dec 15.
Rice never fires a coach mid-season. It will always be an inconvenience as far recruiting is concerned.
But you guys may be right. We're headed to a bowl game after all, and going to a better conference. The AD may think Bloomgren can capitalize on it. He wants Bloom. This is all playing out in his favor.
Anyway, I hope we play well and we all feel better about this soon
You keep telling us what the AD thinks and wants. Is this insider info?
(11-24-2022 10:19 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: If you're going to fire your current coach, and planning to get the new guy onboard in time for recruiting, transfer portal, staff hiring, and continuity, you need to have fired the current guy already and to be in negotiations with the successor already. Rice clearly is not therewith Bloomgren.
Karlgaard will have to act quickly. Surely he knew that there was a high probability that he'd need a new coach at the end of this season, so hopefully he has done some homework and already identified a small pool of candidates. He'll need a new coach by December 15th.
That’s too late. Signing day is Dec 21 and the dead period starts Dec 18. I agree with numbers, win or lose, Bloom will still be the coach on Dec 15.
Rice never fires a coach mid-season. It will always be an inconvenience as far recruiting is concerned.
But you guys may be right. We're headed to a bowl game after all, and going to a better conference. The AD may think Bloomgren can capitalize on it. He wants Bloom. This is all playing out in his favor.
Anyway, I hope we play well and we all feel better about this soon
You keep telling us what the AD thinks and wants. Is this insider info?
No I have no connection to the university, but this is Karlgaard's hand-picked guy. I'm sure he's clinging to any and every reason to keep him.
That statement that he released to alums about the football teams successes and close losses this season could be his way of informing us that Bloom will be back. Otherwise, I think he would have kept his mouth shut.
(11-24-2022 10:29 PM)Ourland Wrote: Karlgaard will have to act quickly. Surely he knew that there was a high probability that he'd need a new coach at the end of this season, so hopefully he has done some homework and already identified a small pool of candidates. He'll need a new coach by December 15th.
That’s too late. Signing day is Dec 21 and the dead period starts Dec 18. I agree with numbers, win or lose, Bloom will still be the coach on Dec 15.
Rice never fires a coach mid-season. It will always be an inconvenience as far recruiting is concerned.
But you guys may be right. We're headed to a bowl game after all, and going to a better conference. The AD may think Bloomgren can capitalize on it. He wants Bloom. This is all playing out in his favor.
Anyway, I hope we play well and we all feel better about this soon
You keep telling us what the AD thinks and wants. Is this insider info?
No I have no connection to the university, but this is Karlgaard's hand-picked guy. I'm sure he's clinging to any and every reason to keep him.
That statement that he released to alums about the football teams successes and close losses this season could be his way of informing us that Bloom will be back. Otherwise, I think he would have kept his mouth shut.
Looks like it might be Liberty's Hugh Freeze to Aubrun.
Liberty is one of the fastest growing programs in major college football. This will be the 17th straight season in which the Flames go .500 or better (wonder what that's like?), and Freeze heads into Saturday's finale against New Mexico State with a 34-14 record. He's 3-0 in bowl games and finished in the AP Top 20 in 2020 (again, wonder what that's like?). Liberty's facilities are expansive and well-maintained. The Flames will join Conference USA next season. If Freeze stayed around his salary at Liberty would be among the highest paid Group of 5 coaches in 2023 (again, wonder what that's like, especially since we do have the money to be top 5 coaching salary ourselves?)
So, maybe Liberty will want to pound the Petros?
(This post was last modified: 11-26-2022 11:43 AM by GoodOwl.)
(11-26-2022 11:38 AM)GoodOwl Wrote: Looks like it might be Liberty's Hugh Freeze to Aubrun.
Liberty is one of the fastest growing programs in major college football. This will be the 17th straight season in which the Flames go .500 or better (wonder what that's like?), and Freeze heads into Saturday's finale against New Mexico State with a 34-14 record. He's 3-0 in bowl games and finished in the AP Top 20 in 2020 (again, wonder what that's like?). Liberty's facilities are expansive and well-maintained. The Flames will join Conference USA next season. If Freeze stayed around his salary at Liberty would be among the highest paid Group of 5 coaches in 2023 (again, wonder what that's like, especially since we do have the money to be top 5 coaching salary ourselves?)
So, maybe Liberty will want to pound the Petros?
Freeze might have done a pre-game Toad bathroom kind of thing today, as a pathetic NM State team leads Liberty 28-7 at the half.
(11-25-2022 01:41 PM)Ourland Wrote: Rice never fires a coach mid-season.
Bo Hagen?
IIRC, Bo resigned, and finished the season.
Correct. He resigned in early November 1970, effective December 1 (after the end of the season). Here's a link to the Thresher with the page 1 article on Hagan's resignation: https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/h...sAllowed=y
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