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Totally agree. What I have seen this year is not going to be fixed with “a play here and a fix there” BS. This situation requires large scale change in the approach.
Just cameramen.
That’s the issue: he is crap at negotiating.
Are we really supposed to believe Dorrell’s agent played hardball and demanded 5 years fully guaranteed? Feels less like a negotiating issue and more like incompetence. Took the increased offer to MT and changed the name to KD and called it a day.
Contracts have been a consistent problem. Being horrible at negotiating reasonable contracts is incompetence when you’re the AD for a supposed major program.
I’m mostly agreeing with you. I just look at KD’s contract and understand that 5 years, fully guaranteed is likely necessary for a hot candidate to come to a place like CU, but I can’t imagine Dorrell even asked/demanded that. It feels like he was handed it almost purposely so RG wouldn’t have to deal with the process again. An AD that hadn’t given up and was actually negotiating, would have never put the University in this position.
Yeah, for all the bellyaching about RG giving Tucker such a low buyout I do wonder if that’s what he had to do to land the coach. If so, I can live with it. Giving Dorrell a fully guaranteed deal is malpractice, however.
It’s almost like RG reacted to Tucker bailing and overcompensated in the exact opposite way he should have
Well then we CLEARLY hired a d!psh!t. I think this is closer to reality than anyone wants to believe.
Let’s not forget the Macintyre contract debacle.
This was the intel we got immediately after from @Bread and others. It’s surprising that people couldn’t understand that this was happening all along.
I am trying.
I think it takes time and actual results to believe what an anonymous message board poster claims sometimes. At that point, everyone was bummed about Tucker but still had faith that RG could “do it again” and maybe we just needed to wait and see.
When the person had direct intel and a narrative that exactly matched the statements and actions by the parties in question, I think hope trumped reality. Hiring Dorrell was in and of itself an act of resignation.
Again. Anonymous message board posters and “direct intel/sources” claims will always be taken with a grain of salt. That’s not to disparage bread at all as he’s proven to know some things, just that sometimes it takes time for people to realize it
As a side note, I would be REALLY interested to see JR Payne's contract. He had a much shorter leash on Lappe, who had a better record than Payne has, and I wonder if it's contract related. Also could be that he inherited Lappe.
Again. The narrative posited by the anonymous poster matched the behavior. Rick George languished in purgatory after missing on all of the rumored qualified candidates. Then, he hired a guy who could barely recruit to UCLA 15 years prior to a mega rich deal. Look at the actions. What would lead anyone who follows competitive college football to believe that Karl Dorrell of all people has the juice to get it done in the 2020s?
Almost?
So safe to say the rest of this year and at the very least next year are going to be an absolute drag?
Yes.
Dorrell’s buyout is so big and confidence/donations to the AD are so low, it will be at least another two seasons.
My expectation is no change before the new Pac-12 media deal money for 2024.
