RAIN OF HAMMERS, CONT'D, CONT'D: BOWERS, ROBINSON, ETC

Any rumors on a possible Arkaloid vacancy?

Half of the Arkies are very afraid he’ll be given an extension beyond the existing 2012 contract for beating LSU.

The other 1/2 says he’s doing a great job, and if he’s ran, who else can AR attract?

I was hoping that the search for Michigan’s next head coach would stretch into bowl season, giving everyone plenty of car wreck to watch. Unfortunately, Michigan being Michigan, they’ve gone and ruined my interregnum. . .

Press conference at 6:30 tonight where Nutt announces his future plans..

Who cares about Nutt anyway? The new AD will can him.

As for USM’s dumping of Jeff Bower, that is hideous; all the man has done is given his entire professional career to the Golden Eagles, and he’s rewarded with this?

Shame on USM.

If Nutt is fired, will he run the entire bowl game from the Wildcat out of spite?

What the…who the…B-B-B-Bowers is gone?

Shit, I have an idea…every five years, every team just fire ALL their damn coaches and shift them around!

Just…shit.

Ditto the above comments on Jeff Bower. If you’ve got a solid coach who is dedicated to the school, you ride that train as long as humanly possible.

ADs with itchy trigger fingers, together with coaches with happy feet, are starting to do serious damage to the sport. Everybody’s impatient and unrealistic and willing to go to any extreme to snag that marginally better job or might-be-marginally-better coach.

And part of the fallout is that we fans spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing over coaches. Tune in to your average college football TV show and you’re likely to come away with the impression that football games consist of two coaches squaring off at midfield. No wonder the Heisman race has been so confused…most days we hardly talk about the kids who actually play the game!

Nope, find somebody solid and stick with him. Multi-million-dollar babies are more likely than not to flame out, leave in the middle of the night, or get you on probation; and even your garden-variety slightly-better-than-average college coach will have his day.

An inability to leave well enough alone is behind at least half the trouble in this world.

what I want to know is, is how many times will Florida have to whup FSCW in a row before The Very Reverend Robert Bowden is politely asked to turn in his resignation. any thoughts? over/under for us degenerates?

Why does everyone in Arkansas want Nutt fired? Is it just because he’s batshit crazy? He’s a good coach in my book.

And I LOVED his pregame speech that CBS showed. “A lot of your mamas and papas are sitting around, eating leftover turkey and watching their boy play some football. So let’s play some football!!”

That’s southern fried goodness right there.

Sean Taylor shot
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3127928

#7

Well damned said.

Yep – Bower got fucked. Here’s to USM going 3-8 for the next 10 years………

Here is a stroke of genius…Bower to Ole Miss…..and Coach O to USM……..free agency at its best

There is an official 6:30 PM press conference being held by the Arkansas Athletic Department; right now, emotions are running high among Hog fans, who have no idea if this is Nutt being fired, Nutt leaving for greener pastures, or a multi-year contract extension.

Stay tuned.

If I am Nutt, and I am crazy, I ask for Crazee Money….
like Fifty-eleven gazillion dollars, just phrased, just like that so that they know Im fuckin crazy and I want more than that Alabama coach….and it better be at least in real money 32 million and 1 dollar, so I can be the highest paid mutha in the SEC for knocking off LSU, cause we got the wood

Robinson is not leaving. Check out syracuse blogs for more on that deadspin has a link to one. SU can’t afford the 3 million buyout. Problem is he will probably go 7 and 5 and demand an extension to cover more losing seasons to follow so it seems like 3 million is your firing fee these days. No one at SU gets the memo though.

Joe Schad reported on College Football Live a couple minutes ago that Nutt is definitely out.

Nutt to Georgia Tech!!!

Greg Robinson should be fired for making fun of retarded people like that.

Follow-up on Schad and Nutt…this from the EsPN:

Sources: Nutt out as coach, will receive settlement from Arkansas
ESPN.com

Updated: November 26, 2007, 2:57 PM ET

 Houston Nutt, the second-longest tenured football coach in the Southeastern Conference, will not be back at Arkansas next season, sources told ESPN.com on Monday. University officials will make the announcement at a news conference scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET in Fayetteville. The university would not comment on the nature of the announcement, other than to say Nutt, Chancellor John White and outgoing athletic director Frank Broyles will be on hand.

Nutt, who led the Razorbacks to two SEC championship game appearances, will receive a settlement in the neighborhood of $3.5 million.

The Razorbacks lost their first three Southeastern Conference games after a turmoil-filled offseason.

Arkansas rebounded to finish the regular season 8-4 and knocked LSU out of the nation’s No. 1 spot with a 50-48, triple-overtime victory over the Tigers on Friday.

Two weeks ago, the university strongly denied reports that this would be Nutt’s last season as Arkansas’ coach. On Sunday, Nutt said White and Broyles wanted him to return, but he said more talks with the university were forthcoming.

Information from ESPN.com’s Chris Low, ESPN’s Joe Schad and The Associated Press was used in this report.

Nutt is gone, according to ESPN.

The thing is, Arkansas does not have anyone in the fold, whatsoever.

What are they thinking?

And, no, Butch Davis is not walking into that snakepit when he can win 7-9 games in Chapel Hill and nobody will say “boo” to him.

Mike Leach to ARRRRRRRR-kansas!!!

$3.5MM buyout for Nutt?

Walton better sell some more foreign crap, Tyson better increase the sodium chicken sales, and the Fords better move Alltell up the wireless rankings from shit for sales to merely crap for sales.

Might want to steer some money to Stephens Investments, though. Something tells me they will be going for broke to help with the passing of the hat in Fayetteville.

Wait — $3.5m seems a little low, doesn’t his contract run through 2012 — and doesn’t nutt make more than $700k a year? If he does only make $700k a year, who the F does Arkansas think they can get for that money?

Please please please let Nutt land at Duke. I love that crazy motherfucker and would love to see what sort of crazy weasel salad he could make in Durham.

Hey EiG, there are rampant but completely unverifiable rumors down this way that Edsall is GT’s number one choice to replace the Chanster.

At this point who cares who Arkansas can get? Just get rid of him! Did you see him on the postgame w/ McFad bringing the wood?! Ugh.

The entire state is getting drunk tonight. We’re going streaking!

Coach O to Fayetteville….make it happen

I don’t want Houston Nutt fired. He’s done, for the most part, a quality job in Fayettville. The fiasco of this past offseason does stink though.

Glen Mason patiently sits by his phone.

$3.5MM is chickenfeed to Stephens. Some guy was bragging about $20MMor so he made on a deal, and Jack Stephens asked him if he’d be willing to cut for it.

BTW, Bower was USM’s starting QB as well. What a stoopid raw deal. Are we sure Pete Boone isn’t giving directions on how to screw up a football program down there?

Tubbs to Arkansas, write it down…

Nooooooo!!!!! No Coach O!!!!! Mike Leach would be fun to watch. I’d say go after Jim Grobe or Paul Johnson.

The Orgeron to Duke, MAKE IT HAPPEN.

1. - Jackson Stephens, as in the former ANGC chairman and the man who offered that bet, is dead.

However, I would imagine the son, also a ANGC member, probably throws his money around UA, as well.

But, it is the Waltons and the Tyson that are the motor in this vehicle.

And 24 – Nutt made much more than $700K per season. That is why it is called a “SETTLEMENT,” because you settle an amount that is suitable to both parties. Nutt is walking out of Arkansas with money left on the table, but when you are being forced out, some is better than none, and rarely does a fired coach ever get what he is owed on his contract, hence the buyout clauses.

to me the ultimate in the usm fuckjob of bower is the fact that he has turned down numerous overtures from other schools over the years. i’m a fan of usm, but they deserved many years of shitiness for this injustice. hopefully he won’t be unemployed long.

USM has lost its fucking mind.

If anyone in Oxford has any fucking smarts about them, they’d be wise to hire Bowers. Here is a man that has the coaching skills and I believe can recruit, but has never had the school backing like an SEC school to be able to do it at. Even so, he did at phenomenal job at USM and was always in every game they played.

Boy, USM fucked up.

Bower to Ole Miss?

http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/11/26/razorback_central/112707nuttgone.txt

Nutt to So. Miss?

1. - Why is this normally the case? Seems to me that with that kind of paper in place between two parties, a lawya like Sexton could really put the screws to the state of R-kansas. It’s not like Nutt shies away from a media circus anyways.

Does it drive anyone else nuts that signed, written agreements paper don’t mean shit?

Strong to GT?

Nobody is going to pay the $6M to get Tubby… they’re just not…. and not because they don’t think he’s good enough… it’s just an insane amount of money to pay just to be able to offer someone a job… and he already works for one of the two schools crazy enough to do it.

Tubs to Arkansas actually makes sense…he’s an Arkansas native, coached at Ark. St., graduated from SAU…I can see it.

1. - But if you sue a school who fired you, rather than taking a buyout, my guess would be that it’ll make it a lot harder to get another coaching job anywhere. Unless you’re Zombie Coach, that’s probably gonna factor in.

1. - I am willing to bet you that Nutt’s buyout clause was less than $3.5MM. However, Arkansas wanted to end this quickly, as in today, not get into an acrimonious battle that would bring further disgrace to UA, so they gave Nutt what amounted to hush money to clean out his office by nightfall.

So, Arkansas probably owed Nutt less than what they are paying him, but more than Nutt would have received from any sort of buyout that should have been written into the contract.

Also, something tells me that, much like the A&M deal with Franchione, had Nutt wanted to make this a nasty public battle to receive the full amount, assuming no buyout was installed into the contract, that Arkansas could have found some conduct by Nutt that brings his “moral torpitude” clause that every contract has for immediate termination, into play.

Arkansas wanted the Nutt era to end TODAY, and they paid Nutt off to get the hell out of town, ASAP.

Pelican wrote: Tubbs to Arkansas, write it down…
Should we erase Texas A&M first?

Tuberville to Arkansas?
WIshful thinking Pelican pants, did you not go to the meeting Sunday? Your tuberville attack has changed from “he’s leaving yall” to “don’t nobody want him no ways”

#32

Should we erase Texas A&M first?

1. - Will Arky pay Auburn $6MM for the right “just to speak” with Tubs?

Didn’t think so.

Tubs is a good coach, but he is not worth paying a $6MM buyout for, which does not include the $3M per year you are going to pay him to leave Auburn.

Doh… double post… thought the html didn’t save.

Tubbs isn’t going anywhere. Unfortunately us Bama fans will have to continue counting his f’ing fingers.

Ole Miss should hire Terry Bowden (seriously) and someone should look at Bower. 10 bowls in 11 years!! Wow; he can coach. Maybe he lands at Baylor.

I bet a certain Mike Shula is having his agent and his daddy make some calls today.

At this point, it would make sense if Haley Barbour apointed Coach O to serve out Trent Lott’s term in the Senate. That’s how batshit crazy this day has been!

I’d be happy with Terry Bowden or Jeff Bower. Tommy Tuberville is not coming to Arkansas. And for the love of God, keep Mike Shula away! Far Away!

Shhh, #52. He will hear you disparaging him.

Seattle radio KJR is reporting Doba’s out at WSU. Official announcement @4:30 P.M. today.

Look out strippers of the Palouse, Daddies coming home.

Word out of Columbia is that Tyrone Nix is out at DC.

Hang on. I think I dreamed that while dozing in the staff meeting.

Bower to Michigan. I know it won’t happen – he’s not a Michigan man, he has no big-program pedigree. But, he’s solid, and can coach, and I’d love to see what he could do with resources behind him.

Will Michigan ever think outside of its incredibly narrow box?

You let a coach who has turned down piles of money to stay at his Alma Mater where he played QB just because the team lost a couple of games that it should have won? If Ole Miss or State did that they’d be out a head coach every 2 or 3 games. You don’t fire a coach who’s record is in the top 5 in the Nation it just doesn’t make sense. I agree it sounds like Pete Boone took the program over. Let me fill you in 14 winning seasons, 10 bowl games in 11 seasons, Bigger schools have offered him much bigger money to come coach for them and southern is paying him to leave. Its just crazy completely crazy. All I can hope is that USM can find someone that can continue their winning tradition. But to the people that fired him NUTS just NUTS

Re #58: They did in 1968, hiring a guy away from Miami University who had actually played for Woody Hayes. The local papers ran the headline “BO WHO?”

If they go that route this time, though, I’d encourage them to look at Brian Kelly. As a Miami guy, I’m forbidden to say anything nice about the University of Concrete, but that guy can flat out coach — at Grand Valley, at Central, and at UC.

USM firing Bower means that we’re officially through the rabbit hole and have entered an incredibly delusional time in college football. People need to take a deep breath, step back and realize that even if the BEST programs who have proven to be NC winners or contenders alternated years, each of these programs would have to wait around 20 years before their turn came around again. Add in the pretenders and idiots who think the saving grace for their university is to join the ranks of elite programs and you have a lot of people reaching for the brass ring. Then these guys get fired for not being the dominant team in the country…….

I am FAR from a VA Tech fan, but stop and consider that if Beamer would have been subject to this unofficial rule of having to be a world-beater in 3 years, he’d be the defensive coordinator at Roanoke College right now instead of being given the time to build that program in to what it is. Ironic that several of these wannabes point to Tech as an example of what’s possible. If you want to point to them, have the admin grow some ‘nads and stave off the alumni that expect undefeated seasons every year. Combine better HS development with reduced scholarship numbers at each school and you’ll get the answer that NOBODY is going to be dominant year after year any more.

Whew…….that feels better.

macker @60 – so very true. Every school thinks it’s their birthright to be among the elite programs and contend for NCs. But, as you rightly point out it’s cyclical no matter a school’s best efforts to be at the very top year after year. Look where USC was in the 60s and 70s, then look at the down years, and then the revival. Just one example. It’s not that firing a coach is never warranted, but right now it’s completely out of control, pushed ahead by psychotic fans, the internet, ADs with no balls, and grown adult boosters whose only identity is as an alum of their college or university.