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Manning Buyout Negotiations Have Begun

What in the fuckity fuck are we doing?

This is embarrassing. Pretty much everyone else in the world of sports has moved on (college coaching carousel, college transfers, recruits commiting, all-time great QBs relocating), and we're sitting on our hands.
 
DeacsATS said:
What in the fuckity fuck are we doing?

This is embarrassing. Pretty much everyone else in the world of sports has moved on (college coaching carousel, college transfers, recruits commiting, all-time great QBs relocating), and we're sitting on our hands.
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The problem for us is that no P6 school has made a move yet. BC and maybe Texas are also being painfully slow to start the high major carousel. Someone needs to get it started and BC has by far the most obvious one.
 
Deaconblue said:
No P6 coaches have moved.
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What does that matter? How many projected moves were there supposed to be in the P6? I can think of exactly two (BC & Wake Forest).

Everything else was more "Seat Getting Warmer" like Pitino at Minnesota or Brownell at Clemson.
 
Can’t say that I recall a situation where you had a firing and immediate hiring announced if that’s what Currie is trying to do. I could see him being really tight about the process after the Schiano debacle I guess but it seems unnecessarily complicated to try and pull off. Still feels like we would have some more concrete evidence at this point if he truly intends to retain Manning.
 
TheIshThatSaved WakeForest said:
The problem for us is that no P6 school has made a move yet. BC and maybe Texas are also being painfully slow to start the high major carousel. Someone needs to get it started and BC has by far the most obvious one.
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How is that a problem? It means there’s a great chance we can get the coach we want.
 
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but it appears the current circumstances and the resulting economic impact has kept Power 6 schools from making any moves. It's not just WF and BC. No head coaching move among any of the 75 schools in these 6 conferences in the first week after the end of the season is unprecedented. It's both the reality of loss of ton of money among the richest donors which is the key to buying out a current coach and hiring a new one, the massive financial hit that schools are taking in donations across the board,and the need to refund tuitions, room and board, and the bad optics of shelling out a massive contract (or buyout) at the same time almost everyone is losing their jobs or expecting a pay cut.

These are the schools that could've made coaching moves in different economic circumstances:

- K State
- TCU
- Texas
- NW
- Minnesota
- Indiana
- DePaul
- Marquette
- Xavier
- BC
- WF
- Miami
- Clemson
- Oregon State
- Missou

Would also add:

- South Florida
- SMU

It's not just WF that is hesitating pulling the trigger; it's essentially every program that would normally be in position to buy-out their current coach, and shell out 7 figures for another. Would guess that the last week has been the most collectively tumultuous week in higher education in the last 100 years. Just not the time to go public with a massive buyout and giving a new coach a multi-figure contract, when schools are terminating or cutting the pay/hours of custodians, cafeteria workers, maintenance workers and academic support people.
 
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Pilchard said:
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but it appears the current circumstances and the resulting economic impact has kept Power 6 schools from making any moves. It's not just WF and BC. No head coaching move among any of the 75 schools in these 6 conferences in the first week after the end of the season is unprecedented. It's both the reality of loss of ton of money among the richest donors, the massive financial hit that schools are taking in donations and the need to refund tuitions, room and board, and the bad optics of shelling out a massive contract (or buyout) at the same time almost everyone is losing their jobs or expecting a pay cut.

These are the schools that could've made coaching moves in different economic circumstances:

- K State
- TCU
- Texas
- NW
- Minnesota
- Indiana
- DePaul
- Marquette
- Xavier
- BC
- WF
- Miami
- Clemson
- Oregon State
- Missou

Would also add:

- South Florida
- SMU

It's not just WF that is hesitating pulling the trigger; it's essentially every program that would normally be in position to buy-out their current coach, and shell out 7 figures for another. Would guess that the last week has been the most collectively tumultuous week in higher education in the last 100 years. Just not the time to go public with a massive buyout and giving a new coach a multi-figure contract, when schools are terminating custodians, cafeteria workers, maintenance workers and academic support people.
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I agree with you most of the time, but I think it is a coincidence. Multiple articles over the last few weeks and months have highlighted that there weren't likely to be a lot of P6 coaching changes this cycle. Maybe that changes if/when coaches leave one P6 for another.
 
None of those schools ended last year with the coach and AD putting on a dog and pony show that basically said "Yes, we sucked this year, but just wait until next year." And then had the coach suck again. The press conference Wellman had last year makes the optics of staying silent so much worse.
 
TigerDeacon said:
None of those schools ended last year with the coach and AD putting on a dog and pony show that basically said "Yes, we sucked this year, but just wait until next year." And then had the coach suck again. The press conference Wellman had last year makes the optics of staying silent so much worse.
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I still submit that this was the most LOWF thing that has ever happened (and again the bar is real fucking high here)
 
(Eminem voice) Guess whos back? back again, Mannings back tell a friend!!!
 
Nah just poking fun at the shitshow that Wake Bball is, thats all.
 
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