re: They Really Fired Jimbo with ZERO Plan

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Ah, yes. Because Herman and Napier knocked it out of the park when they went to big programs lol

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Was Herman really that bad?

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Very similar to Tom Herman and Billy Napier, in terms of background
Ah, yes. Because Herman and Napier knocked it out of the park when they went to big programs lol

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Elko isn't anywhere near like those two. He was well liked at Texas A&M and many were upset he left but that was the best part to let him get some HC experience and bring him back as the HC.

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So big time college coaches in Tx are required to attend way more obligations and events than any other coaches in the other 49 states(on top of their million other responsibilities)because a bunch of high school coaches have inflated egos in the state of Texas. Seems like Jimbo was guaranteed 100 million and thought “This shite is fricking dumb.” And decided to just ride out the contract.

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Sounds plausible. And those activities that involve being the face of the university were usually, in the past, understood to be part of the compensation package. That may not have been the case this time, IDK.

Another thing - I don't know if all states auction off Board of Regents spots the way the State of Texas does, but in Texas at least, the regents are often from the big donor class. So blowing off the administration too many times is like blowing off the Big Cigars who wrote the checks for the coach's salary in the first place. Coaches aren't entirely off on their own athetlics island. An above-it-all attitude will eventually wear thin if the coach isn't producing impresisve results on the field.

ETA: I'm sure coaches in other states schmooze the High School coaching establishment too, but this is the 2nd largest state in the country , with a significantly larger obsession w/ high school football than California.

Hell, we did the same thing with Gus.
Now we are trying to rebuild from the Idaho Potato Famine.
If they had gotten Freeze when they fired Gus, we would be in MUCH better shape right now.
I guess we have Allen Greene's dumb arse to thank for that shitshow.

Mike Elko. Decent to good coach. But do you really picture him hoisting the cfp trophy??

Just not in the cards for him. And not in the cards for TAM. As always, they will be middle of the road. It’s in their DNA.

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Fisher article

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If only a previous team had warned everyone that Jimbo was arrogant, unwilling to hold players accountable, disengaged with stakeholders, hated building relationships, and quick to blame others.

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He collected his big bucks and checked out.

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And the solution was to pay him the rest of his big bucks so he could permanently check out.

Elko is not a bad hire. Much better value than stoops. Maybe aTm will learn the lesson many schools need to learn - paying a coach $10M a year is no guarantee of anything, even running a clean program.

But that article isn’t very damning. He didn’t do podcasts or show up at the touchdown club. Big deal. He just was never that great of a coach. Players will continue to act like Rock stars if they are only there to get paid. Got to have some other reason to go there.

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The Jimbo firing wasn’t part of a long in-depth process. There were SIGNIFICANT issues beyond his win/loss record.

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I heard yesterday that he was given no choice by the big money folks who can only throw money at a problem and know nothing of the process. I never defend Bjork as I despise him but he was put in a difficult situation if any of that is true. Probably what scared off some interesting prospects. Plus, most of the good prospects are playing for championships still.

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Very similar to Tom Herman and Billy Napier, in terms of background.

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That's not a good thing.