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Jen's desk cheat sheet coaches list
godawgst
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It's not rocket science. You can bet that of her final 5 candidates many were on her in case of emergency tear open envelope.
Clawson was #1 choice, Campbell #2, Deboer #3, Wilcox #4 and Lafley from BC coach was #5 imo.
That list minus Campbell looks like a #settle #beta convention.
Small picture this tells you all you need to know about JC as AD, although money she threw at MC wasn't bad at all as of 3 weeks ago, Today After Tucker, Franklin, Aranda, Venerables, and Lincoln's deals it now looks like a "have not" money amount which it just became in the world of Big Time College Football.
Bigger picture is assuming JC knows what she has to work with from Upper Campus, we just were given another data point of how important CFB is(not) to UW.
When the inevitable comes and the SEC/Big-10 have a 30 team super league which we will be apart of simply b/c of Eyeballs in Seattle and Rep. of UW, I will know how it feels to be a OSU/WSU fan where if we can make any bowl game, and pop once a decade where we go into the last 3 weeks of the season with a outside chance of winning our Quad Division we will be able to do a happy dance.
Clawson was #1 choice, Campbell #2, Deboer #3, Wilcox #4 and Lafley from BC coach was #5 imo.
That list minus Campbell looks like a #settle #beta convention.
Small picture this tells you all you need to know about JC as AD, although money she threw at MC wasn't bad at all as of 3 weeks ago, Today After Tucker, Franklin, Aranda, Venerables, and Lincoln's deals it now looks like a "have not" money amount which it just became in the world of Big Time College Football.
Bigger picture is assuming JC knows what she has to work with from Upper Campus, we just were given another data point of how important CFB is(not) to UW.
When the inevitable comes and the SEC/Big-10 have a 30 team super league which we will be apart of simply b/c of Eyeballs in Seattle and Rep. of UW, I will know how it feels to be a OSU/WSU fan where if we can make any bowl game, and pop once a decade where we go into the last 3 weeks of the season with a outside chance of winning our Quad Division we will be able to do a happy dance.
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The fact that Jen didn't know that speaks volumes
I'd say both Deboner and Campbell are not first page but they were for Jen
It will play out regardless of whether I let it or not
Jen is a symptom. Its pretty clear that the USC boosters pulled a coup and told President Folt either her signature or her brains would be on the contract
UW doesn't get it and never will
Still pumping the we do it the right way bullshit that had the Pac 9 all to happy to drop the hammer
We'll see if the new guy fucks up the staff and enjoy more excuses why we can't
The best CFB job in the country doesn't have 2 coaches in the last 50 years worth a fuck.
If you strike out with Campbell, option B isn't 2 just settle. her 2nd-5th choices are garbage. You know how the movie ends with any of them b4 the contract is even written up.
Boosters found a way to pool 38 million dollars for 5 years. Not my money but I will assume the 5-10 guys in the room could have came up with another eight and got to 9 per year. Hell Dan Mullins flies himself here 1st class to sign that deal.
If you can't get more than the 7.5 than go find a top shelf OC/DC from a blue blood top 10 school and give them a crack.
In a typical season Kaleb's defense will shit the bed two games a year and our offense will fire enough blanks over a quarter or two for the other 2 losses.
LOL
Let's look at the "big dick hire" that USC just made: Rumor is compensation to Riley totals $110 million over 10 years, $1 million in overpaying for his Norman houses, $6 million paid house in LA, paying his $4.5 million buyout from Oklahoma. So that's $121.5 million they're on the hook for, plus Clay Helton's $10 million. USC just bet half the cost of Husky Stadium remodel on a guy who's won as many playoff games as Chris Petersen in spite of having far more attempts, having taken over a ready-made juggernaut in a weak conference that he can't even win anymore with said juggernaut.
So bold, expensive, "we care about football at USC" move? Absolutely! A move I'd want UW making? Fuuuuuuck no. We're looking at a coaching bubble that's every bit as stupid as the housing bubble, dot-com bubble, etc., and right as interest is waning and attendance is dropping all across the country (even SEC schools are no longer filling up for no-name games like they used to). Some of these ridiculous guaranteed money contracts that these schools are writing are going to leave them locked into flashy coaches that suck or face program bankruptcy.
It's about value. There is a list of coaches you can count on one hand who you feel confident has what it takes to win a playoff game. Anybody not on that list is a gamble. I'd rather pay $4 million per year for the guy with 12:1 odds than $11 million per year for the guy with 8:1 odds. The odds are terrible either way, and at least in the case of the cheaper guy, you can fire him if he sucks and have another crack at it. With that ridiculous contract, USC is stuck with Riley for better or worse. MSU is stuck with Mel Tucker. LSU will be stuck with both Brian Kellys.
value bets are meaningless when you are betting pocket change, you just want to pick the winner, if it costs a few extra dollars who gives a fuck.
You pay what it takes to get YOUR GUY, hedging into the 3rd or 4th choice to save a few pennies in 2-4 years is fucking dumb.
Furthermore, your logic only makes sense when there's some amount of certainty that "picking the winner" is possible. In a system as chaotic and random as picking a winning coach, in which the difference between your first and second choice is $30 million but the difference between either guy's odds of winning are so nebulous that even a group of message board retards can't come to a consensus, value bets are plenty meaningful.
When playing my odds for program success, I'm going to take three whacks at DeBoner over one whack at Lincoln Riley, and that's about how the math works out.
"Three whacks at DeBoner" over the next decade is much more expensive to the program over "one whack at Lincoln Riley" for 2-3 years.
If you can't find someone you think is the best for the job and are instead trying to "value" hire just put Sven in charge for 10K and call it a day.
Its all random anyways, might as well hire NAIA coaches for the next hundred years for cheap because it will save money!
And tough fucking shit, because it's all moot. We don't have a fully guaranteed $100m to throw at a coach. We do in fact have much smaller dicks than USC and LSU, and if that's a surprise to you then you're a fucking idiot. The amount of dipshits here who appear to be shocked at the revelation that we stopped caring about football in the 90s is astounding. This isn't news. Look around. This is what we have and it's only going to get worse as the CFB parity gulf continues to widen. So either start a multi-billion dollar empire and give UW a slush fund to stay ahead in this sport, or just shut the fuck up already.