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Is Bill Gates looking to get into coaching?

I honestly don't think anyone knows who would be the best fit for UAB. Again, I described a certain coach to a T yesterday... there is a reason why Neal hasn't been a head coach or even a DC since leaving UAB, but I don't know what that reason is.

Scarbinsky got it right. McGee leaving only looks bad for UAB in that he's making more money at Louisville. Otherwise who cares, the other variables are exactly the same as they were two years ago. At any rate there will be a line of people looking to pull Mackin's arm off to accept a job making half a million dollars a year where if they stay 10 years they get a state pension and they get to do something enjoyable instead of paving roads or driving to a 9-5 desk job 261 days a year. It doesn't matter how "bad" the situation is at UAB, for a coach a job is a job, and a paycheck is a paycheck, and $550,000 pays for a lot of headaches.

I think UAB needs someone experienced, whether it's a retread or otherwise. Like was mentioned earlier some of the problems going on in the department require someone who has the experience to fix it, not a learn on the job deal.

(01-10-2014 09:55 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  Scarbinsky got it right. McGee leaving only looks bad for UAB in that he's making more money at Louisville. Otherwise who cares, the other variables are exactly the same as they were two years ago. At any rate there will be a line of people looking to pull Mackin's arm off to accept a job making half a million dollars a year where if they stay 10 years they get a state pension and they get to do something enjoyable instead of paving roads or driving to a 9-5 desk job 261 days a year. It doesn't matter how "bad" the situation is at UAB, for a coach a job is a job, and a paycheck is a paycheck, and $550,000 pays for a lot of headaches.

This is the correct rebuttal to the question "Who'd want this job?"

Nicely put.

(01-10-2014 09:55 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  Scarbinsky got it right. McGee leaving only looks bad for UAB in that he's making more money at Louisville. Otherwise who cares, the other variables are exactly the same as they were two years ago. At any rate there will be a line of people looking to pull Mackin's arm off to accept a job making half a million dollars a year where if they stay 10 years they get a state pension and they get to do something enjoyable instead of paving roads or driving to a 9-5 desk job 261 days a year. It doesn't matter how "bad" the situation is at UAB, for a coach a job is a job, and a paycheck is a paycheck, and $550,000 pays for a lot of headaches.

I think UAB needs someone experienced, whether it's a retread or otherwise. Like was mentioned earlier some of the problems going on in the department require someone who has the experience to fix it, not a learn on the job deal.

+1

There is a huge assumption that UAB has $550,000 to spend on the coach because that is what McGee made and what the buyout is. Maybe they do, but maybe not. If the BOT stands with the fiscal responsibility line again, then they may tell us we can't spend that much. More people attended when McGee first came here than they do now. I can see just a scenario where they tell us that the buyout money must go toward making up the deficit.

(01-10-2014 10:18 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  There is a huge assumption that UAB has $550,000 to spend on the coach because that is what McGee made and what the buyout is. Maybe they do, but maybe not. If the BOT stands with the fiscal responsibility line again, then they may tell us we can't spend that much. More people attended when McGee first came here than they do now. I can see just a scenario where they tell us that the buyout money must go toward making up the deficit.

Well, we just got a 2 for 1 deal on McGee, so I think we are status quo when it comes to money.

(01-10-2014 10:18 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  There is a huge assumption that UAB has $550,000 to spend on the coach because that is what McGee made and what the buyout is. Maybe they do, but maybe not. If the BOT stands with the fiscal responsibility line again, then they may tell us we can't spend that much. More people attended when McGee first came here than they do now. I can see just a scenario where they tell us that the buyout money must go toward making up the deficit.

Let's just be ridiculous and say the new salary will be $250,000 a year. You don't think people would be lining up for that too?

(01-10-2014 10:36 AM)legalblazer Wrote:  Timing wise... McGee was hired when green lighting the OCS was presumed to be a formality - right?

No. The stadium debacle had already happened when they hired McGee. That's specifically why the implication that he left because of facilities or that it'll be harder to hire someone else because of facilities is stupid. The stadium and other facilities situation has not changed one iota since the first day Garrick McGee got off an airplane in Birmingham.

McGee is an excuse maker since his "excuse elimination" introductory press conference.

Not surprised to see an excuse for why he's leaving. Probably did us a slight favor by saying it was facilities and not "because this job sucks and I'm ready for a reboot."

Regardless, he's full of it.

(01-10-2014 10:38 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 10:36 AM)legalblazer Wrote:  Timing wise... McGee was hired when green lighting the OCS was presumed to be a formality - right?

No. The stadium debacle had already happened when they hired McGee. That's specifically why the implication that he left because of facilities or that it'll be harder to hire someone else because of facilities is stupid. The stadium and other facilities situation has not changed one iota since the first day Garrick McGee got off an airplane in Birmingham.

If I recall it had happened only a few months earlier. Maybe he was led to believe or chose to believe it was a small hiccup and would soon be overcome.

(01-10-2014 10:43 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 10:38 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 10:36 AM)legalblazer Wrote:  Timing wise... McGee was hired when green lighting the OCS was presumed to be a formality - right?

No. The stadium debacle had already happened when they hired McGee. That's specifically why the implication that he left because of facilities or that it'll be harder to hire someone else because of facilities is stupid. The stadium and other facilities situation has not changed one iota since the first day Garrick McGee got off an airplane in Birmingham.

If I recall it had happened only a few months earlier. Maybe he was led to believe or chose to believe it was a small hiccup and would soon be overcome.

I distinctly remember the company line out of both Mackin and McGee being that if the wins come, the facilities will fix themselves. The wins never came so McGee can't get pissed that the facilities didn't either.

(01-10-2014 12:57 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 12:53 AM)tibber Wrote:  If the choice comes down to a guy with no experience or has-beens like Bowden and Nutt and never-weres like Chizik, I'm taking the up and comer. At least that way, we can enjoy the fantasy for a few months before the season starts.

Our biggest successes in football were with a hasbeen

Who?

Watson brown

(01-10-2014 10:53 AM)gadblaze Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 12:57 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 12:53 AM)tibber Wrote:  If the choice comes down to a guy with no experience or has-beens like Bowden and Nutt and never-weres like Chizik, I'm taking the up and comer. At least that way, we can enjoy the fantasy for a few months before the season starts.

Our biggest successes in football were with a hasbeen

Who?

Watson gets credit soley because of longevity. Many of Watson's successes and most of his moral victories were in spite of Watson being charge. Watson did less with more talent. The other three head coaches can claim the opposite.

Oh I forgot. Stick to the script.

(01-10-2014 10:54 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Watson brown

Wrong, but wait your a fan from Tenn and he was from Tenn. Any correlation between the two? Your out of your tree if you think Zero was the best we ever had.

What?

(01-10-2014 11:22 AM)the_blazerman Wrote:  What?

The type of schedule we played when Hilyer was here.

Your post: I guess wins over deaf schools and Knoxville college are better wins to you.

My post: What?

Wins > losses.

You can only beat the teams you play, and Hilyer was better at that than Watson.