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JPSke said...

Exactly what will happen here if Gruden comes back to coaching at another school? If he doesn't come back and stays in the booth that is one thing, but if our mismanaged dog and pony show of an athletic department doesn't go make the absolute best effort possible to get him and he ends up at Arkansas this fan base will revolt. It doesn't matter who they hire in that scenario, fans will be so fed up that if he doesn't start contending immediately they will abandon ship.

Fans are pissed off. We are one of the top schools in the country in revenues and there is no excuse for penny pinching in the single most important hire the entire university can make. We have too many passionate fans and big money contributors to pretend to be paupers. If they really do go the bargain route like the info from Hart and now Cheek seems to suggest it is going to get extremely messy here.

So basically, are they aware of what the fans expect and just how negatively it would impact the bottom line if Arkansas were to swoop in and outbid us? Do they comprehend the magnitude of just how fed up with the AD's BS the average fan is? I hope they do.

Edit: And yes, I understand they are going to go through the pretense of making him an offer. But there's a difference between what you're hearing out of our athletic department/admin and what you're hearing out of Arkansas. They are serious about going big, and I think we're just pretending to be.

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JPSke said...

Exactly what will happen here if Gruden comes back to coaching at another school? If he doesn't come back and stays in the booth that is one thing, but if our mismanaged dog and pony show of an athletic department doesn't go make the absolute best effort possible to get him and he ends up at Arkansas this fan base will revolt. It doesn't matter who they hire in that scenario, fans will be so fed up that if he doesn't start contending immediately they will abandon ship.

Fans are pissed off. We are one of the top schools in the country in revenues and there is no excuse for penny pinching in the single most important hire the entire university can make. We have too many passionate fans and big money contributors to pretend to be paupers. If they really do go the bargain route like the info from Hart and now Cheek seems to suggest it is going to get extremely messy here.

So basically, are they aware of what the fans expect and just how negatively it would impact the bottom line if Arkansas were to swoop in and outbid us? Do they comprehend the magnitude of just how fed up with the AD's BS the average fan is? I hope they do.

Edit: And yes, I understand they are going to go through the pretense of making him an offer. But there's a difference between what you're hearing out of our athletic department/admin and what you're hearing out of Arkansas. They are serious about going big, and I think we're just pretending to be.

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JPSke said...

Exactly what will happen here if Gruden comes back to coaching at another school? If he doesn't come back and stays in the booth that is one thing, but if our mismanaged dog and pony show of an athletic department doesn't go make the absolute best effort possible to get him and he ends up at Arkansas this fan base will revolt. It doesn't matter who they hire in that scenario, fans will be so fed up that if he doesn't start contending immediately they will abandon ship.

Fans are pissed off. We are one of the top schools in the country in revenues and there is no excuse for penny pinching in the single most important hire the entire university can make. We have too many passionate fans and big money contributors to pretend to be paupers. If they really do go the bargain route like the info from Hart and now Cheek seems to suggest it is going to get extremely messy here.

So basically, are they aware of what the fans expect and just how negatively it would impact the bottom line if Arkansas were to swoop in and outbid us? Do they comprehend the magnitude of just how fed up with the AD's BS the average fan is? I hope they do.

Edit: And yes, I understand they are going to go through the pretense of making him an offer. But there's a difference between what you're hearing out of our athletic department/admin and what you're hearing out of Arkansas. They are serious about going big, and I think we're just pretending to be.

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JPSke said...

Like I said, not getting Gruden is fine. If he stays in the booth I will embrace the next coach and hopefully he will be successful. But if our AD is too cheap despite being top five in revenues nationally while Arkansas is not....it's time to tell them we won't stand for this crap anymore. They always shop in the clearance aisle and we always just accept it, and that's why we're in this situation in the first place. We are in a position to possibly make an unprecedented hire in the history of college football. There has never been a sub-50 super bowl winner take over a major CFB team. If they pinch pennies here it is time we stop giving them our money, period.

They need to understand that fact.

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JPSke said...

His staff maybe, but he himself wasn't that highly paid.

"Tennessee's new coaching staff will earn $5.325 million this season, including $3.325 million in salary for its nine assistant coaches, UT announced Thursday."

http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2009/jan/22/33m-salary-for-assistants-may-top-nation/

That's less than Saban makes by himself. That's less than the guy at Louisville is saying he is willing to pay to keep Charlie Strong. Carolina is paying Spurrier's staff over 6.5 right now.