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re: What's the worse move your athletic department has ever made?

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Posted by Crowknowsbest
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:04 pm to
Hard to pinpoint just one mistake in a long history of mismanagement, but I'll say allowing Jan Kemp to tutor football players. Hindsight is 20/20.
Posted by RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:05 pm to
For sure
Posted by HogsWillRiseAgain
Central LA
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:05 pm to
Stan Heath and John Pelphrey!
Posted by LOCO5150
NWA
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:05 pm to
quote:

What's the worse move your athletic department has ever made?


*worst
Posted by ZouKeeper
Missouri
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:06 pm to
Hiring Quinn Snyder.
Posted by agrunner
Flower Mound
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:06 pm to
For those saying fran instead of urban, in retrospect that was a terrible decision but at the time, it was a grand slam hire.
Posted by skirpnasty
Atlantis
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:06 pm to
To be fair, the three coaches prior to McKeen had records of 20-10, 15-8, and 29-12. He got canned after going 4-4 in '48, which was our worst season since at least the 1930's.

And Darrell Royal resigned and took another job.


quote:

Who is this paragraph about though? Royal?


Allyn McKeen.
This post was edited on 1/15/15 at 3:09 pm
Posted by EKG
Houston, TX
Member since Jun 2010
44025 posts
Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:07 pm to
Dennis Franchione.
His initial hiring, I'm ok with.
No one could've predicted his shocking ineptitude.
But the contract extension he was given?
Arguably the worst move in Texas A&M AD history.
Posted by RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:07 pm to
Urban would have never stayed anyway
Posted by Clark14
L.A.Hog
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:07 pm to
Jack Crow set us back for years,but John L Smith was a terrible move.
Posted by outlawjoseywales
Memphis, TN
Member since Sep 2012
1836 posts
Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:09 pm to
Quinn Synder, Mike Anderson, Frank Haith.

I believed in the Mike Anderson hire but also knew he would not stay long. Those 3 have taking a very good basketball program and drove it into the dirt!!!
Posted by WestCoastAg
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:09 pm to
Well yea, but that's the whole point of this thread right? Looking back at what was the worst move for your program
Posted by Henry Jones Jr
Member since Jun 2011
68532 posts
Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:10 pm to
Hiring Ken Cooper and Steve Sloan back to back. They both tore down everything Vaught had built Ole Miss into. If Billy Brewer hadn't fricked up and gotten himself fired, I think we'd have an SEC title or two.
This post was edited on 1/15/15 at 3:12 pm
Posted by AUTigermitch1995
Auburn
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:11 pm to
Tony Barbee
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:11 pm to
Ears Whitworth.
Posted by CBandits82
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:11 pm to
quote:

Urban would have never stayed anyway

Posted by bgator85
Sarasota
Member since Aug 2007
6025 posts
Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:11 pm to
In the Foley era, it has to be Muschamp. Foley is typically very good at his job, but hiring a defensive-minded HC for a program whose fans expect explosive offense is just a bad combination.
This post was edited on 1/15/15 at 3:15 pm
Posted by StopRobot
Mobile, AL
Member since May 2013
15395 posts
Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:12 pm to
quote:

For those saying fran instead of urban, in retrospect that was a terrible decision but at the time, it was a grand slam hire.



That is true so I wouldn't call it a bad move just an unfortunate one
Posted by WestCoastAg
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:12 pm to
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Posted by EKG
Houston, TX
Member since Jun 2010
44025 posts
Posted on 1/15/15 at 3:13 pm to
Again, his initial hiring wasn't the turd; his extension was.
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