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That is pretty much what I fear. Hiring Tucker was bold and a good move. Going after Sark was a good move, but following those moves with hiring a total dud, and guaranteeing the entire contract, betrays an ability to catastrophically cripple the organization with one, inexplicable, disastrous decision. It destroys any confidence I have that he should be in the same zip code as the next HC search. Which, this being CU, means he will be making that hire.
There is a mental image I did not need.
Anyone else get the feeling he went "up the chain" with "this is what we need to do to get and keep a competitive coach" when he was trying to land Sark and was told in no uncertain terms "we won't do that, quit asking."
The term "Quiet Quitting" gets used frequently in the media today. I think that's exactly what happened.
I'm thinking more along the lines of "malicious compliance."
I said it when Bohn was likely hamstrung to keep D II Danny that disastrous fifth year, if you aren't allowed to run your shop the way the market requires, you resign. If RG really was hamstrung by the PTB, he should have preserved his good name and moved on. He had the cache to land another job, in reality, he probably still does. The only people who probably really are not wanting him around under any circumstances are us zealots here on AB.
I agree here. I think that in a lot of corners of college sports management your time at CU is not fatal. It's understood that you were just in a ****ty situation and a lot of things were beyond your control. Might even get a few bonus points for toughing it out.
He did hire Mel Tucker. I'm willing to give him ONE more opportunity to find a football coach.
I'm all for silver linings, but this timing is pretty rough. Heading towards a 0 win season, no new coach, new new AD, no new chancellor, and a "pause" until summer or worse as we wait for PD to get replaced and then the rest of the dominoes to fall.
Can’t give details that betray the person who told me, but they are very very close to Phil and his departure is all but confirmed for this year.
You may be entirely correct. If that is what is going on, I see little honor in that. It is hard to respect the "I am cashing in and mailing it in and there isn't anything you can do about it" mentality. I would hope there is another explanation, but I do not know what it is. As Yak says above, the best hope is Saliman is the real deal on the issue of athletics, and he sweeps with a new broom. I don't want ANYBODY who had a hand in HCKD touching the next hire process or the AD.
Even if RG was somehow blameless in all of this, you still don't want the guy who is widely believed to have made a bunch of false promises to Mel Tucker to be the guy trying to find a new coach.
Agreed. If everything is done in a conventional order, than it would reason that we are in for another year of RG and KD. However, if Phil D retiring is really as much of an open secret as it's starting to sound like, I can't imagine Saliman hasn't already begun the process of finding PD's successor. If Saliman is really as pro athletics as it sounds, I don't see why he can't just be the one who is meeting with RG and making the necessary decisions.
Maybe I've missed a thread somewhere but is Saliman really that pro-athletics? Like enough to make some waves an upset some folks level pro-athletics? What do we know for sure?
@dio has made a comment or two recently, that he can repeat or expound on if he'd like, and then this LeftHand guy from 247 (again, just a reputable poster over there with ties to the University/AD/football program) has said a few things. On top of that, Saliman has been active on social media in the past with his support of athletics and, specifically football, taking pictures with players, etc.
Fix the out of state rates for in state recruits too.
I’ve heard the same thing about Saliman being pro athletics. There seems to be some fire to that smoke. I just hope it means something.
He'll need to be more than just pro athletics. He'll need to be pretty savvy about the cut-throat nature and high payout of modern college athletics. He'll need to fully understand just how bad PDS, RG, & LC have fallen short of anything remotely acceptable and how much that has tarnished the image of the university.
Honestly it's not that high of a bar. I bet relaxing admissions standards for athletes and introducing a general ed degree program would go a looooooooooooong ways toward seeing more talent on Saturdays.
There was that one dude, Playball22, or something who used to post a ton of program scoop too, right? Haven't see him post for a long time, though.
