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(04-22-2015 10:45 AM)Agent Orange Sauce Wrote:  Any AD hired by Watts will be universally hated. There is no way around that. Who wants THAT job?

(04-22-2015 12:10 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Dean doesn't even have to show up to get his paycheck.

Just do nothing as instructed by the BOT & Watts.

It is about over.

(04-22-2015 09:51 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote:  Second, what capable AD candidate in his right would take the UAB job now? Those prospective candidates who are bright and capable enough to do the job well are going to thoroughly vett the circumstances surrounding the program before accepting the job. And they are not likely to take a job which could easily end in career suicide.

(04-22-2015 09:51 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote:  IMHO only two types would take that job under the circumstances: 1) Someone who is too stupid to understand what he is getting into, or 2) a washed up has been looking to pad his retirement account who would sign a big contract who doesn't care if he is ultimately fired because then he can collect his money without having to work for it.

Yep, I will be so excited to see who Watts hires.

(04-23-2015 05:57 AM)notnow Wrote:  I Agree. Any candidate for this job is probably a loser.
I won't be excited for our program when we make a loser hire.
Just another nail in our coffin.

(04-27-2015 10:34 AM)UABslant Wrote:  I get the feeling the AD hired will have a great deal of experience with the conference Watts wants us to join. Wait & see...

(04-27-2015 02:49 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote:  However I would put it slightly differently: "Anyone who takes the job as shadowed and stigmatized as this one is pretty desperate." That doesn't make for the best candidates.

That looks like a good pool of finalists to me. I hope it turns out well.

If Watts pushes for anyone else at this point it will be very obvious that he's making a power play. That is not to say that he could not do so, but if he did all hell would break loose.

(04-28-2015 10:36 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Obviously it is a trick. They're going to hire one of these guys and at the press conference, Cajun Blazer will rush onstsge and remove the new AD's rubber mask, Scooby Doo style and be revealed to be Joe Dean Jr.

And Watts would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling freeuab kids.

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I thought you said facebook and twitter. I missed the here but I went back and looked and I was in error.

Again I want to shine the light on the committee.

I think Mackin looks very foolish for stepping down and signing the NDS. He took the money and ran. If you are being threatened come forward. Otherwise you are simply a coward.

Good list

A good list indeed

I doubt any of them are crossing their fingers in hopes of getting this job. There has to be talk of Watts not being here very long if they are truly interested.

I'm very impressed and pleasantly surprised.

(04-28-2015 11:03 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  I thought you said facebook and twitter. I missed the here but I went back and looked and I was in error.

Again I want to shine the light on the committee.

I think Mackin looks very foolish for stepping down and signing the NDS. He took the money and ran. If you are being threatened come forward. Otherwise you are simply a coward.

When he was offered money to speak, right? Was it 3 years pay?

(04-28-2015 11:16 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:03 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  I thought you said facebook and twitter. I missed the here but I went back and looked and I was in error.

Again I want to shine the light on the committee.

I think Mackin looks very foolish for stepping down and signing the NDS. He took the money and ran. If you are being threatened come forward. Otherwise you are simply a coward.

When he was offered money to speak, right? Was it 3 years pay?

Who's to say the penalty for breaking the non-disclosure isn't more than three years pay though?

Mackin informed Coach Clark about the closure of UAB football after the Southern Miss game. That's when the news broke all over ESPN Sunday. Mackin was subsequently let go that day and later brought back on to help transition the players and silenced with a Non Diclosure Agreement after his role ended back in February this year.

Looks like a good group of candidates.

I'd save the 'I told you so's' until the announcement is made and the press conference is held. Lord only knows what can happen next.

(04-28-2015 11:35 AM)grendelson138 Wrote:  Looks like a good group of candidates.

I'd save the 'I told you so's' until the announcement is made and the press conference is held. Lord only knows what can happen next.

This is one conference I plan on attending. I was there for Callaway and it was less than luke warm.
Clarks was packed and people were generally optimistic and the players were excited.

If this one is open to general public I want to be there again.

(04-28-2015 11:24 AM)nicknitro19 Wrote:  Mackin informed Coach Clark about the closure of UAB football after the Southern Miss game. That's when the news broke all over ESPN Sunday. Mackin was subsequently let go that day and later brought back on to help transition the players and silenced with a Non Diclosure Agreement after his role ended back in February this year.

Mackin knew since AT LEAST August that football was done.

I have to admit that on paper at least it looks like a good list; of course I'm not sure many of of us were aware of any of them before now and we still don't know much more now. Let's see if Watts will hire any of them. I'll still bet that after interviewing them, if Watts hires any of them it will be the one he believes will be one most likely to support a UAB athletic program without football. That agenda always comes first. For their sake, I hope the heck they know what they are getting into.

Just to be clear, as I have posted before, I'm sure that the search committee had many fine people on it and I am sure they did their best to identify the best candidates available, though I am still reasonably sure even better candidates would have been available if not for our current situation. My problem was always has always been with Watts and the timing of this hire. I have absolutely no trust for the man and he has proven time and time again the when he make a move, any move, he almost always has ulterior motives, usually to solidify his decision on football. I don't think that anyone can reasonably argue with that.

If Watts does hire one of them, maybe a year or two from now we will be able to judge whether the committee and Watts did a good job. Let's hope that Watts isn't here to judge for himself.

whoever the new AD is, Better have a set of nuts on him that's all I got to say...

I like the three finalist selected for UaB's next AD. I'm done.

Having read the bios, I like one over the other two. I keep quiet as to who I like, since some accuses me of aiding and abetting Watts.

I'd have to go with Ingram, simply because he's worked at Temple... he's been exposed to the side of "have-nots".

I lean that way as well, but I'm not doing the interviews. As long as the committee gets to make the pick, and as long as that pick goes forward without being compromised, I'm good with it.