If that isn't a "set the table" piece to fire MikMac, I don't know what one is.
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Well, we suck again. Fire Mac.
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If that isn't a "set the table" piece to fire MikMac, I don't know what one is.
I'd love to see that $250k bonus get achieved.
RG is getting out in front of this. He is gonna can MikMac.
Him electing not to give MM the auto extension after last season is probably what allows him to fire MM now.
While I think Chev is clearly over his skis, I don't know that he hasn't tried to work it over the middle. We aren't in the QB room or offensive meetings. Couple plays down in Tucson where players had a couple a steps on crossing routes and QB was either about to be killed, or rolled out of the pocket instead of stepping up into the pocket.
That being said, the offense is bad, boing, bland and predictable. Heck, I'd even take a QB sneak on first and ten just to mix it up.
Hey now, let's not get carried away.
If he wanted to make the middle of the field a priority, he would. A few plays here and there not connecting because of whatever is no excuse for basically having a third of the field not being used for the vast majority of the season.
SerenityBuff
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Uncharacteristically harsh by Howell. I like it.
The figure is $9,975,000.00
He gets the $300K per season in bonuses regardless of whether he’s the coach.
While thinking about all the money problems related to a McBuyout, and hearing that it's not a dealbreaker, is it possible that RG has some type of naming rights deal in his back pocket to use as an emergency fund?
We know he's checked out options in the past and things have been silent for a while. I feel like he's probably been casually looking for the best fit without feeling pressure with the AD doing relatively well. However, with this looming buyout and the the events center now nameless, maybe we'll see something done in this area if need be.
We know he's checked out options in the past and things have been silent for a while. I feel like he's probably been casually looking for the best fit without feeling pressure with the AD doing relatively well. However, with this looming buyout and the the events center now nameless, maybe we'll see something done in this area if need be.
As I am always the optimist and willing to take a moment for a feel good story, I'm enjoying this quote from Howell's article.
Howell certainly seems to be hinting that Mike Mac is most likely gone.
Logically, there's just no way you can keep him.
Let's say he defies the odds and goes 7-5. Then he wins his bowl game to go 8-5. The contract stipulation is that a decision on a 1-year extension with a $300k escalator happens at the end of December.
You can't keep him without extending or you've got a coach in a lame duck situation that just got a vote of no confidence from his superiors.
If you extend, we go into 2019 with the same situation as this year. If it doesn't work out, the buyout of his contract goes to a little over $10M over 3 years.
So if he manages to win, RG has to work hard with MM's agent to help him find another job so that they can part ways.
And if he loses, RG has to pull the trigger, fire MM, and eat the money.
I don't see another path unless we go with something dysfunctional. And that's where Howell's coming from.
Even if CU does win out, you would be keeping a coach that has won a little less than 30% of his conference games over a six year span. After year four with a great run, you could ignore the W-L because the trajectory was upward. Somehow MikMac has manages to get right back in the cellar. Time to move on, you can't keep him if you want to be taken seriously in the P12.
BerkeleyBuff
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If we somehow won the next two and the bowl game, I very seriously doubt any change would be made. But I obviously don’t think that’s all going to happen.
I believe if that happened that MM would make that change for us. He doesn’t want to be here if he can get something at least somewhat equivalent elsewhere.
As fans we see the on field failure and want change. For RG what has to be concerning is the impact on future revenues.
We are in a fragile market, there is a lot of competition for the same dollars. Watching the game on Saturday there were a lot of empty seats in the stadium throughout the game. I am not just talking about up in the ends but mixed into every section.
Lots of those sections are sold out, they got the money for those seats but that doesn't mean that those same fans will buy those seats next year. Seeing all those empty seats also can't make the in stadium advertisers happy
Things were looking pretty bad then we got a boost from the 10 win season a couple years ago. Just have to wonder how resilient the paying public is now without a reason to believe, and Mike Mac isn't giving them a reason to believe.
It will cost RG a lot of money to make a change but it may end up costing a lot more not to. We can't afford to become a Kansas or and Oregon State with 25,000 fans showing up expecting to see the team lose. way to much money involved.
We are in a fragile market, there is a lot of competition for the same dollars. Watching the game on Saturday there were a lot of empty seats in the stadium throughout the game. I am not just talking about up in the ends but mixed into every section.
Lots of those sections are sold out, they got the money for those seats but that doesn't mean that those same fans will buy those seats next year. Seeing all those empty seats also can't make the in stadium advertisers happy
Things were looking pretty bad then we got a boost from the 10 win season a couple years ago. Just have to wonder how resilient the paying public is now without a reason to believe, and Mike Mac isn't giving them a reason to believe.
It will cost RG a lot of money to make a change but it may end up costing a lot more not to. We can't afford to become a Kansas or and Oregon State with 25,000 fans showing up expecting to see the team lose. way to much money involved.
He has to know it is over. That would make it much easier for him to go.
AllStarBuffs
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Such a bummer he didn’t go to Ole Miss last year, they took note of how bad he finished the season with CU and said no thanks
ahoelsken
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Seems like he knows he's probably gone about as far as he can go here, and with J-Mac graduating, this is as good a time as ever to move on-he wins out and he can probably go after Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, or maybe even Maryland. Anything short of that and we're going to move on from him and he'll get to go back and coach in at the Group of 5 level. Record notwithstanding, he had a huge 2012 at SJSU and he's definitely going to leave this place a lot better off than it was the day he got here. I think he's very well thought of nationally and I don't think he'll have much trouble getting another gig.
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Adding to those points, schools could get him pretty cheap for three years. Due to the buyout, CU would have to pay the difference between what he would make and about $3.3M/year (if I understand it right).
Ah, there it is. The baseless claim that MM had a chance to go to Ole Miss returns. It was said last year and I'll say it again, unless something popped up in the last year that I am unaware of, there is no actual evidence he interviewed for that job.
Unless a coach is really trying to say **** you to his pervious school, they don't and will not do this (we usually call this pulling a Pelini).
Coaches will negotiate for as much as they can because
A. Credibility - they'll probably want another chance at a P5 school one day, and pulling something like that would hurt those chances.
B. Whatever they're paid at that job sets the scale for the next one.
My best case scenario (with a heavy dose of reality thrown in) is that we lose the Utah game (that’s the reality part, not necessarily the best case scenario part), and MM is let go the following day. The team rallies behind whoever the interim is and wins the last game at Cal. Then goes to a bowl game and wins. Halfway into bowl preparations, Les Miles is is introduced as the new head coach. He is able to sell recruits a bowl team and improved coaching. We head into 2019 with Montez, Shenault, and a solid staff who knows what they’re doing.
I can dream.
I can dream.
ahoelsken
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There will never be any. Social media is social media, but the thing with that is there seemed to me like there was a lot of smoke there....
BerkeleyBuff
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Pour me a glass of whatever you're drinking; I want in on this dream.
It would actually be interesting to see a non-MM driven gameplan from both Chev & Eliot.
I also suspect that both of them would like to show the world a non-MM driven gameplan.
They might fall flat on their faces, but they also might deliver up a winner.
Make it so RG!