REPORTS: FRANCHIONE BOUGHT OUT, DONE. EXCELSIOR!
Buyout? Sports talk types in Dallas and Birmingham reporting that Dennis Franchione’s buyout has been hammered out, and that Franchione will leave Texas A&M following the 2007 season for the low, low price of 8 to 10 million dollars American, or roughly the combined yearly salaries of 200ish Americans making the average national wage.
Aggie fans, if this is true: EXCELSIOR! Your team might watch tape and prepare instead of attending endless motivational seminars. The number one name on Aggie AD Bill Byrne’s list according to ESPN’s Chuck Cooperstein: Tommy Tuberville, who won’t leave but who will chip a few more gold bricks out of Bobby Lowder’s tower of football Mammon thanks to the overtures.
Other fun, truthy candidates:
–Terry Bowden (though we want him to go to Arkansas in a marriage made in hell)
–Gary Patterson
–Will Muschamp
–Bo Pelini
–Jimbo Fisher
–Paul Johnson
–Jerry Moore. Hot hot hot!
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I just had to get in my “I told you so” to all of those TAMU fans out there. I can remember how they were talking Fran up when they made the hire and my thinking “what has the guy ever done?” He did have a couple of GREAT years at TCU, but I think you really have to ask yourself who were they playing. SW Texas State, New Mexico and TCU are at best mid-major programs playing against other mid-major programs. Playing their schedules isn’t exactly the same as playing BAMAs or TAMUs. I wonder if they would now agree that Fran is a Fraud?
Comment by Native Techsan — November 5, 2007 @ 3:41 pm
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Why setting for anything less than Jon Gruden - If there ever was a coach that was made for college football, then it is Jon Gruden. Still only 44 years old, Gruden still has a passion for the game that is not equaled by anyone we know, college or pro. His Super Bowl win was in 2002, so things might be getting stale in Tampa, and what a better combination of people than Jon Gruden and the Aggies. He would eat up the traditions that make A&M the great school that it is, and there would be no one tougher on the campus once he arrived in College Station.
Comment by Let's Hire Gruden — October 19, 2007 @ 4:18 pm
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You need better probation teams.
Comment by Dr. Ed PHD.XYZ — October 19, 2007 @ 8:41 am
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14-11, AU over the last 25 years, by my calculation.
At least 6 of those AU victories came while Bama was on probation. Bama won one, maybe two over AU while AU was on probation.
Comment by RIP Logan Young — October 18, 2007 @ 4:29 pm
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Mr. Russell - I think Auburn has the edge over UA,T in the last 25 years, 17-8 or something close to that. Feel free to correct me.
Comment by War Eagle — October 18, 2007 @ 3:52 pm
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Terry Bowden got on the 5:52 Delta flight from KC, MO to ATL yesterday.
Maybe he was coming from an interview. Said he’d be back in coaching in three weeks, then played it off. He mentioned a truthy school (one likely to need a coach) and then played it off.
I didn’t ask where he’d been, but y’all can start the speculation now.
Comment by War Eagle — October 18, 2007 @ 3:50 pm