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let the feeding frenzy commence. Or are we mid frenzy now?
That article is brutal. As far as Sparkles leaving, I find that hard to believe now that he is locked in for huge paydays with no chance of ever getting fired. I guess it is possible some big boy team comes along and pays the buyout, but how likely is that?
If he can beat the big boys in the MWC (USU, BSU, SJSU) and go bowling again I think he could attract some interest from a P5 school somewhere. The buy out is huge, but it would surprise me if there wasn't an out clause if the stadium isn't built.
:nod: I think that is what the article is stating.
SuperiorBuff
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Should raise it to $10 and call it Dime Bags.
Good...Good
The fans only have themselves to blame.
The stadium, and the hiring of Jack Graham, was always a high stakes gamble. It was do or die for them.
I'd put the chances of CSU dropping to FCS in the next 10 years at about 80%. Unless something amazing happens, they're in deep, deep trouble.
I really don't think the stadium is written into Sparkles' contract.....
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What fans? That's the point of Knutson's column. They don't have any.
They couldn't sell out their own building when CU came in to play them in basketball. There was at least 1,000 CU fans there in a building that might hold about 8,000. This is the biggest game of the year for their hoops team and they couldn't even sell it out. Nik pointed out that CU has sold more BASKETBALL season tickets than CSU has sold FOOTBALL season tickets. That's absurd. The simple fact of the matter is that Graham was a hail mary to try to gin up some passion for CSU athletics. It has failed.
Maybe not. I don't want to go look for it anyways.
Yeah. That contract was supposedly done a couple months ago.
Durwardram
New Member
What a joke of an article. You guys just start creaming yourselves whenever you find something negative about the Rams, no matter how ludicrous. And, yes, we do the same.
Other than the implication that a new stadium is written into sparkles contract, what about that column strikes you as inaccurate?
Years ago we took a young lambkin under our buffalowing and explained how Captain Jack's be bold campaign could end up hurting the university and maybe it wasn't the best course of action.
Maybe nothing comes out of this.
Odd that you would cream yourself over negative Ram news, but, to each their own.
Durwardram
New Member
Without going line by line, but -
"extremely reliable source that his house is for sale" - this is easily verified and would mean nothing.
"So if the stadium project dies this fall – as it appears it will – and McElwain then leaves as expected", he just pulls this crap out of his hat. Nobody is paying that buyout.
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HCMM had a line in his contract about some penalty if the school had not broken ground by a specific date. It would not be out of reason for there to be similar wording in Sparkles' contract.
The house thing is largely irrelevant though. Just a way to try and stir up panic.
The house thing is largely irrelevant though. Just a way to try and stir up panic.
"Nobody is paying that buyout." Why would that be? Because he's not that good of a coach? Honestly, a big time program doesn't give a rip about buyouts. If Tennessee came along (just using them as an example, Bitch Jones isn't going anywhere), they wouldn't blink an eye at the buyout. It's just a number. You have a lot to learn about how big boy college athletics works.
The point of the column is that CSU has shat the bed. That they're stuck in reverse and nobody seems to care. That's hard to deny, wouldn't you say?
I agree on the house thing, though. Totally irrelevant. That's just Knutson being a moron.
Which I think was the point of the article.