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Mattingly says AD hopes to be in place by Jan. 1
Posted on 11/17/17 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 11/17/17 at 5:00 pm
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sources are telling him it will be a national search done with the help of a firm.
Also says AD will make the coaching hire
... My God... This is worse than imagined... Not only do they apparently not have a guy in mind... The Jan 1 date is fricking 10 days past the early signing period.... This is going to be absolute shite show...
Now, whoever the new AD is, is going to have to hire a new coach on essentially day 1....but we all know that won't happen, it will probably be mid-late Jan at least.. Leaving essentially no one on tbe Market to coach.... What this does do is now bring in coaches in the Playoff in play... A.k.a. Gus if he wins out...
The timing on all of this is very very concerning... This all wreaks of "Gus is our man no matter what" I think they possibly drug their feet on firing Long so essentially the board would hire the new coach.. And by doing so, Gus is virtually the only option... The way some are talking, Gus would walk away from Auburn no matter what... Even if he's playoff bound.
Every other athletic dept knows you have to have a new coach in place by early Dec. So they can get to recruiting immediately.... But not us... No we don't give a shite... We don't need the talent anyway... We stacked!
In reality, if you can an AD this late in the season you better damn well have a guy ready to sign the next week... That leaves him about 2 weeks to get acclimated and get in touch with potential coaches....still that's cutting it damn thin, but this Jan 1 bullshite leaves WAY too many Cooks in the kitchen and WAY too many ways to frick up a new regime basically before it starts.
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Posted on 11/17/17 at 5:12 pm to Jack Ruby
If we were going to move on Long, it should have happened in September like Nebraska. They already have a new AD to conduct their search.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 5:21 pm to Jack Ruby
I wonder when Bert actually gets fired in that scenario.
Surely to god the people in control aren’t that ignorant.
Surely to god the people in control aren’t that ignorant.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 5:23 pm to Jack Ruby
Posted on 11/17/17 at 5:31 pm to piggilicious
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Surely to god the people in control aren’t that ignorant.
There #1 target is Gus so....
Posted on 11/17/17 at 5:43 pm to piggilicious
People with inherited wealth can be astonishingly dumb.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 5:48 pm to Jack Ruby
They may already have their guy in place but have to feign a "search" to make it look above board and in compliance with any hiring rules.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 6:01 pm to piggilicious
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I wonder when Bert actually gets fired in that scenario.
His buyout drops significantly on January 1.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 6:05 pm to Jack Ruby
If that's true - that they have no idea who is going to AD at this stage - then it's amateur hour. They can't be that stupid.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 6:23 pm to RunningBlake
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They can't be that stupid.
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There #1 target is Gus so....
Posted on 11/17/17 at 6:59 pm to Jack Ruby
Good grief. Rumors and unnamed sources. I'm not going to get butthurt until I have a reason to.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 8:41 pm to Jack Ruby
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sources are telling him it will be a national search done with the help of a firm.
Also says AD will make the coaching hire
If true this is beyond incompetent.
Also, this is basically saying BB is toast.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 9:55 pm to Maytheporkbewithyou
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Good grief. Rumors and unnamed sources. I'm not going to get butthurt until I have a reason to.
Good for you. Everyone cries about how the media protects the coaches. Then they cling to unnamed sources. What changes?
Posted on 11/17/17 at 9:58 pm to Malvy
Razorbronc and the rev are more reliable.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 10:01 pm to Arkansasrazorback
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If we were going to move on Long, it should have happened in September like Nebraska. They already have a new AD to conduct their search.
Agreed, but the only issue was the timing of the BOT Executive Session. It didn’t help that that was so late in the season, which ended up throwing a wrench in the timing of everything.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 10:24 pm to Jack Ruby
I’ll be curious to see who is correct in this. Bo is saying January 1 but Otis over at 247 is saying Tuesday. Pretty big difference between those two dates.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 10:41 pm to Malvy
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Razorbronc and the rev are more reliable.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 10:41 pm to TheCheshireHog
I hope he’s correct, but I wouldn’t believe Otis if he told me the sky was blue.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 10:49 pm to Feral
I'm reeeeally holding onto hope that we don't severely regret the timing of Long's departure, but I'm not liking the potential for that occurrence right now.
We've got winter break coming up in a couple weeks that'll be good for hammering out details with slightly better cover, and its also the gap between semesters when university officials may not be as busy as usual. That could also work against us because an already-employed AD may prefer to wait until the holidays are past (and any holiday time off/vacationing are over) and the new semester begins in January to "talk business."
It just depends on the candidate how the break may come into play. If the AD is already an AD elsewhere the football season could be a factor as well, but probably less likely. Betting odds would be that it takes a few weeks to vet any and all candidates and get them in for interviews regardless, even if they were at that stage this very moment (which they aren't yet).
So I'd be willing to bet that Bo doesn't have a source and is just making an educated guess with pretty good odds to be correct, or his "source" is doing the same. The fact of the matter is that it's not set in stone. If a candidate wants the AD position bad enough the factors above don't mean crap. If the AD isn't already employed on the university side (ie comes from business) then the winter break isn't really a factor but the holidays may or may not be. We also havent even covered the BOT and President Steinmetz and how any of this effects their end.
Hopefully the candidate they're gunning for is already under their noses and NONE of the above matters. A man can dream
We've got winter break coming up in a couple weeks that'll be good for hammering out details with slightly better cover, and its also the gap between semesters when university officials may not be as busy as usual. That could also work against us because an already-employed AD may prefer to wait until the holidays are past (and any holiday time off/vacationing are over) and the new semester begins in January to "talk business."
It just depends on the candidate how the break may come into play. If the AD is already an AD elsewhere the football season could be a factor as well, but probably less likely. Betting odds would be that it takes a few weeks to vet any and all candidates and get them in for interviews regardless, even if they were at that stage this very moment (which they aren't yet).
So I'd be willing to bet that Bo doesn't have a source and is just making an educated guess with pretty good odds to be correct, or his "source" is doing the same. The fact of the matter is that it's not set in stone. If a candidate wants the AD position bad enough the factors above don't mean crap. If the AD isn't already employed on the university side (ie comes from business) then the winter break isn't really a factor but the holidays may or may not be. We also havent even covered the BOT and President Steinmetz and how any of this effects their end.
Hopefully the candidate they're gunning for is already under their noses and NONE of the above matters. A man can dream
Posted on 11/17/17 at 10:54 pm to Feral
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Agreed, but the only issue was the timing of the BOT Executive Session. It didn’t help that that was so late in the season, which ended up throwing a wrench in the timing of everything.
The board can call a special executive session at any time it pleases...it only has to give the public and the media a 2-hour heads up I believe. They could have easily called it after the S. Carolina game (from what I've read was the final straw for Bert) and issue the no confidence vote on Long. And it doesn't even matter if all of the board are present or not...they can conference call in as many people as need in order to form a quorum.
By not calling a special session, this tells us ...A.) they had not yet decided on Long, or B.) They did not want to call a special session and set off all the alarm whistles that shite was about to go Down.
Either way, the 3-plus hour session (which remember some in the Arkansas media tried to tell you was normal and "oh they run a university, they didn't bother with the football team for that long" essentially confirmed that things were rocky for the coach and AD at least.
I just really hope thay had previously formulated a plan before the meeting, but now it seemw they spent a ton of time last week discussing just how to pull all of this off
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