Softy calls for Cauce's head
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Oh man, I feel really assured now.
I'll go ahead and ignore the fact that a 14-1 roster was secured for 2023, one of the most sought after FA coaches was secured *in fucking January* (he didn't jump when 'full share' UCLA job came open) and wait for the desperate "we need to take out that advanced loan from the B1G because we need the money so badly" play.
I saw first hand that the AD was clearly getting an influx of money from the fans this year. I'll go ahead and trust that over some imaginary Tyee guys that leak info to sales quooks.
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The in-depth reports from when UW hired Dannen were that he pursued the UW job after hearing that Jen left (he had met her at some convention). It wasn't the search firm that zeroed in on him through some miraculous search effort.
I expect the same thing happened with Nebraska. Their search firm didn't zero in on him — he heard about the opening and sought it out.
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either way. Sue their asses for being involved and having the clear conflict.
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If you’re paying hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of dollars to a fucking search firm that doesn’t bring you the candidate you end up hiring, it’s an indictment on
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To be fair, it's hard to blame people for wanting to continue tradition versus playing four road games in Piscataway NJ, Columbus Ohio, Lincoln Nebraska, and Bloomington Indiana. Going to the Big Ten is pretty FS for every reason except the corporate overlords who throw money at universities.
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if there was ever a post that needed the KOMO4buttfucker tag it’s this onw
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AGREE
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Let’s roll up the sleeves and untie the gloves a bit …
Softy speaks on what information that he is fed … his sources come from within the existing AD and boosters
Cauce is in her upper 60s … the idea that she may retire and leave UW at some point is fairly obvious … her track record though suggests that she’s not walking away until she’s satisfied with where things are and she strikes me as a lifer more than a time to ride off into the sunset of retirement
Cauce took FULL ownership for the BIG10 move and knows that that move requires UW to raise its game to match its new surroundings … she hired Dannen to navigate the change required
Every interview I heard from Dannen hit all the marks I wanted to hear about what was REQUIRED as we transitioned …
What I do take away from Softy’s spewing is that Dannen encountered some significant obstacles and resistance to the change that he was bringing … change is hard and part of the process is identifying those that are on board and those stuck in what has been done and will be obstacles going forward … it is CLEAR that there’s a lot of obstacles that remain in key places
Dannen chose the path of least resistance and left for Nebraska … for that he deserves a rusty cheese grater … the key takeaway for me though is that whatever obstacles that remain are such that he didn’t want to mess with it
So all eyes are on Cauce and why I’m so intrigued by what is occurring … the department desperately needs a change agent leading it that challenges and breaks some of our historical norms and forces growth and evolving of our mindsets … will she continue with that with this hire or will she relent and satisfy the dissenting voices and hire somebody that is closer to our historical ways?
Between a trip to the National Championship in football and a flexing of their power to oust Dannen … the old guard must be feeling confident in their view that UW doesn’t need to change and adaptIF that group wins out then I would bet on a very rocky transition into the Big10 and Fisch leaving relatively early in his tenure
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Sorry, I'm not giving Cauce that much credit on the B1G move because it had to happen - it was an existential move for the university's athletics. It's not like she was some kind of visionary and had a bright idea.
Based on UW history, it's more likely that she nixed moving at the same time as USC and UCLA, costing UW a full revenue share in the process, than it is that she negotiated UW a seat at the table that wouldn't have existed were it not for her. No, I have zero facts to back up that thought. Only a long list of examples of UW fucking up over and over.
