Softy calls for Cauce's head
“This is a totally different ballgame now for Washington. You're competing with Ohio State, Michigan, and Nebraska, who just took your AD for God's sake!”
He revs up.
“How does that happen? It happens by either Ana Mari Cauce stepping down and somebody else taking over or a new AD convincing Ana Mari Cauce to be a bigger partner financially with Washington's athletic department end of story. I mean, how long is AMC going to be on the job? I don't know. Rumors are flying around that she may be out of there in a year or so we'll see if that actually comes to fruition. I think that's what you're talking about. Chris, you're talking about a whole different attitude regarding sports from the top at Washington,” said Mahler.
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Softy is kind of an idiot.
But he is OUR idiot I suppose.
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Every football program hates the school president. Probably because they're nerds.
Anyways, Cauce may be a dud, but I haven't seen anything specific to put her in Guantanamo for.
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I get that it is a what have you done for me lately business but Cauce did get us to the B1G. That was HER.
The longer list of fireable offenses between Cauce and Softy goes to Softy, rather easily. -
If you were going to fire her it would be for DeBoer. Bama got him for 10 million a year. The way UW recovered from losing him was a credit to Cauce and the upper campus. Dannon Yogurt is a nobody. Fuck him
LIPO
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Cauce hired Dannen.
The guy's family never moved here with him. One month in she should've been asking him WTF was going on.
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Fuck you Softy. This wasn’t AMC’s fault. CEOs and other execs LEAVE! quickly for other higher paying jobs all the time. And like DeBoer, I’m sure Dannen got a heads up through back channels that the Nebraska job was a real possibility, so that’s why he didn’t uproot his family. He only wanted them to deal with the hassle of moving once.
What I DO blame AMC for is giving a goddamn interview at the airport acting like a deer in headlights saying how surprised she was. That’s not bad bitch boss energy. I would have preferred for her to say, “I’m appointing (insert name) as interim AD, and we’re going to make a great hire.” Then she starts calling the list of prospective replacements THAT SHE ALWAYS HAS AT THE READY BECAUSE PEOPLE LEAVE ALL THE TIME!
I would laugh if AMC was announced as Harvard’s new president. That would be the perfect bookend to all this madness.
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Nebraska used the same search firm UW used. Sue their asses.
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Jen and Dannon were just simply look bad for the school. That's about it. Neither are worth the money.
Deboer was a legit thing but now looking at it, Bama is paying him 10 mil/8 years for losing a Natty with someone else's players and his second choice for his quarterback. 25-3 is 25-3 but….I don't know man. I don't know. UW offered what, 9 and 4-5 years?
I guess the real problem is just that Nebraska SC and Bama have the full shares to just light money on fire and not give a fuck about that.
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Thinking Dannen got a heads up over 5 months ago, right after he was hired, and him not choosing to move his family at that point is called bargaining.
It was definitely Cauce's fault that she made a stupid ass hire bringing Dannen in here.
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HH sermon seekers actually defending UW’s President. What the actual fuck is going on around here?
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That goes back to BobC's point that we need a bidnessperson running the AD. A university president is adept at navigating the waters of academia not big time football. She has done well when you consider that. I didn't like losing Deboer but it is done. Dannon was a good hire until he wasn't
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I didn’t hear Softy calling for Cauce’s head when I listened live.
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He's delusional if he thinks UW is getting rid of their DEI fat
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from one DEI hire to the next.
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Dannon never wore leopard print. (That we know of).
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Rumor has it he couldn’t fill these in the right places
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Softy is missing the point as usual in all of this. He's blaming the president for hiring someone that wasn't a fit culturally with the university. Without asking the question if there is a culture problem at the university that is preventing the hiring and retaining the kind of killer we need in the AD.
This isn't to say that Dannen was a killer by any means. But he perceived himself to be which is really all that matters.
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She got us there eventually, and on the half-share, but don't you think we had a crack (at least informally) at the first window when USC/UCLA bolted?
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That's probably a question that you'll never get an honest answer to.
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Like what Race alluded to, DEI meant that a fat bald midwestern piece of shit was given one of the cushiest AD jobs in the country. He showed up, was given some purple reign cigars, then Fisch was served up to him on a silver platter by UCLA, and then he made the easiest termination decision in the history of UW basketball.
This is why Twitter is unbearable too. Everything bad that happens you have retards spamming DEI and cougs spamming 'Half Share'. It's fucking exhausting.
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The half share stuff is real in the short term. It means we need to zero base budget everything in order to grow the pie as big as possible or get left behind when the next wave of alignment comes up. The athletic department has been built on being in the top 25-30% in terms of revenues relative to its direct competition. It's easy to get lazy and focused on the wrong things in that environment. I fear what AMC will learn from this ordeal is that she needs to make sure the next AD is an even better fit than Dannen to the existing culture, but what she should have taken from this is that the culture needs to shift to match the moment and that business as usual will not work.
I think we are going to fuck this up.
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I think we are going to fuck this up.
That and the field are always the best bet
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If UW isn't taking any of the loan stuff that the B1G set up for them, then money isn't an issue. Besides some extra basketball facility they don't have any major projects which is what these full share schools are blowing their wads on. And it's been exposed by several coaches that facilities don't matter nearly as much nowadays.
The half-share thing is a butthurt coug narrative. It's hilarious how a half-share is so critical for the cougs, but a 15 mil, zero exposure Apple+ deal would've saved UW from being is this pretend financial crisis.
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Some classic circle jerking HH style.
When Softy doesn't call out people in power you jerk yourselves into a frenzy (understandable).
When Softy DOES call out the person responsible for the hires the hive gets pedantic about how he called them out. Unbelievable.
I agree AMC did lead the program into the B1G so I'm not out on her but she is responsible 100% for the Dumdum hire
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Sorry Mrs Softerson
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I'm not sure what to believe on that… all the B1G smoke was that we* did not pencil out to the same money to TV as the LA schools, but it is possible we were considered along with UCLA and replied with some bullshit about not going B1G for the sake of the conference blah blah
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I hope you are right.
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You were probably drunk
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I agree with you that the culture at UW is probably what caused Dannen to not be a fit, but you and I both know that whatever the culture is now is not going to change. Look at the Board of Regents.
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I don't know enough about them, but I know that they killed the Pac and knew they had to go to the B1G.
I know that they were happy to let our 2023 stars get paid enough to come back and have a 14-1 season, we played Nirvana during GameDay and the only gay shit that happened on our campus was Pac 2 retards waiving flags in red square.
I can only judge what is put in front of me.
