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Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year deal
Posted by KillerNut9 on 11/11/15 at 7:59 am13
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@GopherFootball: STORY: #Gophers name Tracy Claeys Head Football Coach, sign him to a three-year deal. LINK LINK
Don't really like this move by Minnesota. Claeys should have had his name removed from contention right after that Michigan game.
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re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by crewdepoo on 11/11/15 at 8:17 am to KillerNut9
They almost beat michigan lol I think it's a good move, you save the season and he's basically been the coach anyway since kill was always out
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by ShaneTheLegLechler on 11/11/15 at 8:20 am to KillerNut9
Good news for Illinois, Maryland and Purdue. I feel like Minnesota would have been first choice for the MAC guys like Campbell
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re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by tccdc on 11/11/15 at 8:24 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
As usual, I will probably be wrong, but Minnesota could have done much better.
It seems too rushed, not like anyone was going to swoop in and hire him now.
It seems too rushed, not like anyone was going to swoop in and hire him now.
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by hoopsgalore on 11/11/15 at 8:43 am to KillerNut9
Stuck in mediocrity.
ETA: that being said, the three-year deal is interesting. A lot of coaches get five-year deals to demonstrate stability to recruits and fans. My guess is this three-year deal includes a small buyout should Minnesota regress further and the Athletic Department / university can just part ways with him after the next year or two.
ETA: that being said, the three-year deal is interesting. A lot of coaches get five-year deals to demonstrate stability to recruits and fans. My guess is this three-year deal includes a small buyout should Minnesota regress further and the Athletic Department / university can just part ways with him after the next year or two.
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re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by nebraskafaninwi on 11/11/15 at 8:50 am to KillerNut9
And the downward spiral for MN has started and they didn't even get that high under the rebuild of the coach that retired this season.
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by Broseph Barksdale on 11/11/15 at 8:55 am to KillerNut9
Wait is this the Peter Griffin 25 seconds to snap the ball guy?
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by dallastiger55 on 11/11/15 at 8:55 am to nebraskafaninwi
Wow what a bad move. Fatass couldn't even figure out a clock at the end of the Michigan game
Sounds like a player hire. Dude will last 2-3 years max
Sounds like a player hire. Dude will last 2-3 years max
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by hoopsgalore on 11/11/15 at 9:28 am to dallastiger55
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Sounds like a player hire.
Definitely is.
Minnesota is dealing with quite a bit right now due to the resignation of Norwood Teague (Athletic Director) and the retirement of Jerry Kill, which temporarily threw Minnesota's program into flux.
The university is so hell-bent on the continuity of Jerry Kill's staff + keeping the 2016 class together that they are willing to hire from within.
I have no doubt that Minnesota wants to elevate their program, and have taken necessary steps to do so with the approval of new facilities, but I'm not sure hiring Tracy Claeys does much to actually elevate the program.
Time will tell, but I just have a feeling Minnesota will continue to be just another average B1G program that can, at the least, stay competitive against Top-25 teams in-conference. Their record against Top-25 teams since the turn of the century is abysmal.
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by BMC398 on 11/11/15 at 10:00 am to hoopsgalore
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Definitely is.
Minnesota is dealing with quite a bit right now due to the resignation of Norwood Teague (Athletic Director) and the retirement of Jerry Kill, which temporarily threw Minnesota's program into flux.
The university is so hell-bent on the continuity of Jerry Kill's staff + keeping the 2016 class together that they are willing to hire from within.
I have no doubt that Minnesota wants to elevate their program, and have taken necessary steps to do so with the approval of new facilities, but I'm not sure hiring Tracy Claeys does much to actually elevate the program.
Time will tell, but I just have a feeling Minnesota will continue to be just another average B1G program that can, at the least, stay competitive against Top-25 teams in-conference. Their record against Top-25 teams since the turn of the century is abysmal.
Wait...this makes no sense. Claeys has been a HUGE part of EVERY turnaround that Kill has made, especially this one and you think its a bad idea for them to keep him? I don't get it. Minnesota HAD been bad for a long long time before he showed up. Why get rid of a guy when he's been part of the solution.
Maybe they didn't like any of the guys that were going to be available?
I'm not fully convinced that the MAC guys (Babers, Fleck, Carey or Campbell) would be a slam dunk hire for Minny so why not try to stay on course?
I'm sure it's a pretty nice deal for the Minny AD and they can probably walk away at any time without much buyout. Sure, you can see it as maintaining mediocrity but Minnesota is not some sleeping giant just waiting for a good coach to turn them great.
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re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by hoopsgalore on 11/11/15 at 10:23 am to BMC398
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Wait...this makes no sense. Claeys has been a HUGE part of EVERY turnaround that Kill has made, especially this one and you think its a bad idea for them to keep him? I don't get it. Minnesota HAD been bad for a long long time before he showed up. Why get rid of a guy when he's been part of the solution.
Tracy Claeys has been a huge part of the turnaround Jerry Kill made at Northern Illinois and Minnesota. I am not claiming otherwise. He has stepped in multiple times, on an interim basis, when Jerry Kill was forced to step away from the game after seizures.
Additionally, I never claimed that hiring Tracy Claeys was a "bad move," but Minnesota rushed this one out with the Athletic Department reeling after the Norwood Teague resignation and the Jerry Kill departure.
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I'm sure it's a pretty nice deal for the Minny AD and they can probably walk away at any time without much buyout.
Nice of you to take what I said earlier and construe it as your own thought. I acknowledged, in this thread, that this three-year deal protects the university a bit as it likely includes a smaller buyout should the program not make any progress, and regress, under Tracy Claeys.
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Sure, you can see it as maintaining mediocrity but Minnesota is not some sleeping giant just waiting for a good coach to turn them great.
Minnesota now has so much invested in the football program with TCF Bank Stadium opening just a few years ago and new facilities set to break ground.
Time will tell if this is the right hire, but chances are the three-year contract will allow them to get their Athletic Department stabilized and we will see if Tracy Claeys survives the transition. I'm not convinced, unlike you.
In any case, looks like we will agree-to-disagree.
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by Iosh on 11/11/15 at 10:30 am to hoopsgalore
Should've gone with Dilly Bar Dan
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by Dr RC on 11/11/15 at 11:04 am to KillerNut9
they should have gone after Bo Pelini
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by BMC398 on 11/11/15 at 11:48 am to hoopsgalore
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Minnesota now has so much invested in the football program with TCF Bank Stadium opening just a few years ago and new facilities set to break ground.
Time will tell if this is the right hire, but chances are the three-year contract will allow them to get their Athletic Department stabilized and we will see if Tracy Claeys survives the transition. I'm not convinced, unlike you.
In any case, looks like we will agree-to-disagree.
They should have just hired Nick Saban. Would have been a home run....
Glad to see you're a full fleged a-hole though and didn't just play one in our first interaction.
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re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by VerlanderBEAST on 11/11/15 at 2:05 pm to crewdepoo
Bad Move
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by Mr Personality on 11/11/15 at 2:30 pm to KillerNut9
The Tim Brewster era, Part 2.
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by BMC398 on 11/11/15 at 2:54 pm to VerlanderBEAST
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Bad Move
Who should they have hired? Lots of criticism yet nobody has said hey....this guy would be a great fit and here's why.
Yes, Minny isn't having a great year. You have to remember that this is a team who isn't routinely winning 8-10 games a year and they are trying to keep what has made them successful in their very recent past.
If it doesn't work, they can drop this guy quick and move on.
This wasn't a program that was going to go out there and get a hire that was guaranteed to knock it out of the park. What they have is a guy who can keep the status quo going and try to build something long term.
re: Tracy Claeys name Minnesota Head Coach, 3 year dealPosted by PAGator on 11/11/15 at 3:22 pm to KillerNut9
Illinois could really take a big leap forward this offseason, if they commit to it
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Illinois could really take a big leap forward this offseason, if they commit to it
How so? They were likely to be picking from the same group of MAC coaches everybody else was.
They can dump some money into a coach if they choose, but who is out there with ties or interest at this point?
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As usual, I will probably be wrong, but Minnesota could have done much better.
It seems too rushed, not like anyone was going to swoop in and hire him now.
Agreed. Feels like they're desperate for continuity which is understandable, but I feel like they could've done better given where Kill had that program headed.
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