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Silence is Beautiful

Jayne Cobb

One Damn Dirty Ape
Club Member
(Forewarning: I use the phrase "in my opinion a lot in this article for a very specific reason.) This whole post is my opinion, and nothing more. I make no factual assertions about anyone, it is one man's opinion--mine.

Since Butchie bailed on the Buffs for Tennessee, we have heard essentially nothing from CU Athletics about the coaching search. And to that, I say Hallelujah! That is as it should be, and how it usually is done by competent professionals. We don't need to know who they are talking to, who is flying into town for look-see, and especially to whom contract offers are made. I have followed college athletics for a long time, and I have never seen a process more open to the media than the Butch Jones saga. We could say that CU has learned their lesson from that fiasco, but I think that they knew that already.

In my opinion the entire fiasco was caused by Jones' agent Trace Armstrong. Armstrong talked about Butchie's interest in CU prior to the meeting. He said Butchie was coming to CU. In my opinion he was the source that gave the story to the Denver Post, knowing that it would cause Butchie to go ballistic at the Cracker Barrel (resulting in more press for his boy), and also knowing that it would cause a stern rebuke from Butchie (resulting in more press). He also got a denial from UC staff (getting more press for Butchie), although that may have been, and probably was, just gravy to him, as in my opinion he didn't plan on that last one happening, as Butchie's denial was enough for what were, in my opinion, his plans.

In my opinion, his plans were keep Butchie's name hot, keep it out there, and see if he could parlay interest in his boy to boost his boy's salary for a larger pie from which to take his agent cut. He did that with Perdue, IMO, and CU, IMO, and kept the ball rolling hoping that Wisconsin or Tennessee would bite with more money offered. In my opinion, he would have told Butchie to take CU if nothing better came along, and we should be grateful that he did so, as he would have kept shopping Butchie around and if Butchie took the Colorado job and excelled, we would be looking for new coach in a year or two. In my opinion, Armstrong, not CU made this a public spectacle for Armstrong's narrow interest in getting a larger check at the end of the day, negative rep to CU and his boy not even being a thought.

Funny how a coaching search without Trace Armstrong is silent--as it should be.
 
Paying members have a little more info on this issue, but essentially yes. Jones' camp was the sources all along.

Free Agency is a tough business. Butchie played UC and CU and a lot of people and it worked perfectly.

Next coach up?
 
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Paying members have a little more info on this issue, but essentially yes. Jones' camp was the sources all along.

Free Agency is a tough business. Butchie played UC and CU and a lot of people and it worked perfectly.

Next coach up?

Thanks to Buffaholic for the hat tip about the paid members only area. I have been a paid member for a few days, but did not know about the super-secret area just for subscribers.

After perusing a few threads in the paid member area, my opinion is modified that it may or may not have been Trace Armstrong who did the leak, but my opinion is even stronger that it was not CU who was doing the leaking, it was Butchie's side.
 
I agree wholeheartedly. Silence is golden. We were quiet before Butch, and we've been quiet after. As it should be. We will have a coach soon, we might be excited or we might underwhelmed, and we'll move on. But we'll look a lot less stupid no matter what.

I have to say though, I agree that it was probably Armstrong, and he did his job well. I was not at all excited about BJ coming to Boulder at first, but then my competitive juices got going and I wanted us to win. I'm sure that was not accidental, nor was it limited to a nobody like me.
 
It was apparently NOT Armstrong, as many of us have speculated. It was, however, somebody from Butch Jones' camp. I don't know who that would be, if not his agent or Jones himself, but I believe what was reported in Barzil. The source is pretty strong.

And yes - the silence is a good thing for now. I hope it doesn't last long, though. We need to get this train moving.
 
actually, Mike Bohn leaked the info to the DP that Butch Jones accepted the job at CU. His poor judgement reared its head again.
 
actually, Mike Bohn leaked the info to the DP that Butch Jones accepted the job at CU. His poor judgement reared its head again.

Damn his bad judgement for leaking that BJ had said "Yes" after BJ said "Yes". Horrible, horrible judgement to trust the coach who he had just hired to be honest with him. Bohn doesn't just need to be fired, but probably nuetered publicly too.

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Ahhh ...

Paying members have a little more info on this issue, but essentially yes. Jones' camp was the sources all along.

Free Agency is a tough business. Butchie played UC and CU and a lot of people and it worked perfectly.

Next coach up?

$9.95 per month must buy a lot of inside information ....:wow:
 
Silence is fine, although the food cart incident will always be an epic tale. However, it is a little frustrating that we are two weeks into the coaching search and Cincinnati nailed a great coaching hire in two days.
 
actually, Mike Bohn leaked the info to the DP that Butch Jones accepted the job at CU. His poor judgement reared its head again.
Neg ****ing rep! You do not know **** of the truth you ****ing MORON!
 
actually, Mike Bohn leaked the info to the DP that Butch Jones accepted the job at CU. His poor judgement reared its head again.

Rialto - we've been told by several media outlets that this is not true, the leaks came from Jones' camp. If you'd like to support the site you can get the full lowdown. Here is a taste:

By Reed Marks, Garrett Duman, Zach Fogg
**There a few details that I still cannot write about it. Nothing that changes anything, but I still need some sources for future work. I hope y'all understand.


December 6, 6.05am-
“All is going along well, Coach should be in Colorado by days end.”

This was the text message that I woke up to yesterday, Thursday morning. At that point I began working to get a timeline of events, (fights, presser, team meeting, etc.) which was one of the first times I made contact with people inside of Dal Ward. I was quickly shutout, and something about it was very strange.


December 6, 8.25am-

I answered a call from a number I didn’t know. I was very quickly told that the deal was dead, both Jones and CU has agreed to wish each other luck, and he thanked me for being patient with them. Before I tweeted anything, I texted Jones and his agent Trace Armstrong for confirmation. As I waited an entire 60 seconds, I decided to tweet out that the deal was dead, Jones had denied CU.

December6, 8.43am-

Coach Jones’ office called me, put him on the phone where he confirmed that he was no longer in the running for the CU job, and thanked me for being fair and honest with him.
It was over! I was reeling and very deflated from what was a long week of knowing more than many, not being able to report much of it, and feeling really upset as I am a FAN before anything else. In the subsequent hours I heard 100 stories of what “really” happened and who’s fault it was. But you have to go back to the beginning to understand why the real story was in front of us the whole time.


The full 6 day saga is in barzil...
 
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