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Sorting out the rumors...

Posted on 11/30/07 at 5:54 pm
Posted by tigersruledude
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 11/30/07 at 5:54 pm
So i have been reading all of these things and trying to figure out how we get such conflicting reports. Just as an exercise lets assume that just about everyone that says they have a source really does. This does not rule out the possibility of the source being full of it but i don't want to accuse anyone of reporting bull on purpose. Anyway...i figure there only a few places these things could come from originally:

1. Les Miles: We haven't heard a ton from this side of it. Obviously he would probably remain tight-lipped if he was leaving or torn. I don't think we would get much out of him.

2. UM - Obviously they would be secretive and legal. Nothing official can be reported. There is surprisingly little save the request to meet. I don't think it is fair to characterize their silence in any direction. I think the request is a Miles leaves sign but the rumor mill from this side is pretty quiet.

3. TAF: You guys will have to help me out. These are the money people yes. As is the case i assume there are two kinds of people in this group. There are the kind that know stuff and the kind that are told what they want to hear. I think the difference in rumors from this group reflects that. What we don't know is who has what info. That is my opinion at least.

4. LSU Admins: I think you are gonna get two lines of info. The official line and the real. Sometimes these two are the same. Sometimes they aren't. I think some people have trouble telling the difference.

I could be wrong about much of this...i just figured kind of slotting some of this info in a category might help sort out what we are hearing.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 11/30/07 at 6:32 pm to
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So i have been reading all of these things and trying to figure out how we get such conflicting reports. Just as an exercise lets assume that just about everyone that says they have a source really does. This does not rule out the possibility of the source being full of it but i don't want to accuse anyone of reporting bull on purpose. Anyway...i figure there only a few places these things could come from originally:



About whom do you hear the most rumors, all the time? Clients of Jimmy Sexton. Therefore, that is your answer: Sexton floats these rumors and gauges reactions.

Do you know how we got the WVMD away from Michigan State? The search committee talked with Sexton about Tuberville (who had just jumped to Auburn a couple of years before) and he said, Tuberville's not interested but the Michigan State coach is.

He's the puppet master of these coaching moves. That's why his clients are, on the average, overcompensated and his clients are the primary forces in coaching salary inflation.

But, hey, whatever the market will bear, right?
Posted by cbtullis
Atlanta
Member since Apr 2004
6242 posts
Posted on 11/30/07 at 6:34 pm to
TAF memebers don't get as much info as you think they do.
Yes. There are a few in the Top 100, who will be in the know, but just bc you're a memeber of TAF doesn't mean you get special info
Posted by cayjon
Member since Sep 2006
256 posts
Posted on 11/30/07 at 6:41 pm to
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He's the puppet master of these coaching moves


Hmmmm...what a coincidence that Tubby was in Arkansas hunting when a report went out a deal was done with Arkansas all the while he was in open negotiations with AU for an extension.
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