re: Players Comment on Craig's Firing

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Just looking this stuff up. We should cut our losses right now. Maybe Brennan can mentor these guys - maybe

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you don't openly criticize your boss


Says who?

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Says common sense.

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This isn't the pussified corporate world where you have to get written up and counseled 300 times before you can get terminated.

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Know how I know you've never worked at any for-profit corporation?

The "pussified world" you speak of where a person can "get written up and counseled 300 times" before being terminated exists in only three very interconnected sectors:
1. Government (specifically bureaucracies);
2. Academia (primarily teachers and faculty); and
3. Labor Unions (legal loopholes for mass-extortion and racketeering).

If you can't do your job right in the corporate world your boss won't hesitate to replace you with somebody who can.

If that's too much pressure for you, get a job working for the government or in education.

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Make the staff changes at the end of the season

It's a cheap move, whether you want to admit it or not

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It looks bad in a knee-jerk sort of way, but what would be the appropriate amount of time to pass? If he'd waited one week like Les did with Ball last year? Maybe he should've waited till just before spring practice started, but that could've been contemptuous to the players, too. Maybe he should've waited till the end of spring practice, but that also could've upset the players. Maybe he should've waited till summer, but that could hurt all the summer camps and recruiting. Ad infinitum.

The fact is that it's never pleasant when someone loses their job, but it happens. Had they both been let go before NSD, it would've hurt recruiting and being that O's known as a good recruiter, a poor class would've caused even more derision from the fan base, a contingent of whom are already anti-O.

Regardless of the optics, getting the HC gig at LSU is a huge second-chance for him. I don't fault the guy for making decisions that he thinks need to be made to do the best job he can. And Canada deserves the chance to have input on his position coaches, which this now affords them with a head start on other teams who haven't made coaching changes yet, but will.

As for the speculation about why Craig was let go, all I know is that it isn't a good look for news to break that the recruiting coordinator is being considered for another job at a power-5 school so close to NSD. If I were O, I'd be pissed about that.

Coaches leave after signing day. We have a new head coach and offensive coordinator...it would have been surprising if no coaches had been fired/left

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It is very low rent to fire them the day after NSD. I know it happens all the time, and I'm critical when other schools do it, so I'll be critical when LSU does it.

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This,

I think it just goes to show what we have in store.

I just don't understand, Miles would've just had him find another job if he needed him to move on. Avoiding all the drama.

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It happened under the salnted Les Miles also.

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when?

When did we fire a coach, the day after signing day, unannounced to the players that it affected and have a twitter barrage of crap?

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If he let them go a week ago and we lose recruits due to it, you would be saying O needs to be fired for not waiting til the recruits were locked in. Nothing this staff does will please you whiny little bitches. Pure bitches. Always crying about anything and everything. It has to get old at some point.

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what the hell are you talking about?

If you cant stay on point, just step away? This whole debate thing may not be for you.

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These two were let go because they didn't get the job done. O gave them a chance to pull in their targets and they didn't get them. Guidry (yes it's a recruiters job to give them positive reinforcement for school. You get the point across about how vital it is to perform well in school), Smith, Ruggs, Ausbon, all misses. When they didn't get the job done, they were let go.

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A good executive has faith in his employees (good or bad) and doesn't let the results of one day let them obtain or fall out of favor. So if that is NOT the case, it was a little disingenuous to the current players and recruits to not cut Craig lose when he was hired.

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The bottom line is this. Miles was fired because he wasn't getting the job done. Alleva gave him a chance to right the ship.

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Ok, once again, what does that have to do with anything?

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When did we fire a coach, the day after signing day, u

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Miles fired Tony Ball last year within a few days of NSD. I am pretty sure it has happened before as well.
It's just not that unusual.