"The Players Went Wild When E was Announced!"

For the sake of argument, let's assume this is true. Some here have quoted this as evidence that this is a good move.

This same argument was used to 1) retain Miles and 2) hire Orgeron.

We used to have leaders and Athletic Directors with level heads and strong minds.

Bob Brodhead responded this way to Arnsparger's demand that coaches and players be given input into bowl selection.

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Arnsparger's proclamation that the "Head Coach and players will be given input into bowl game selection" evoked a simple response from me:

No they wouldn't.

As Director of Athletics, it was up to me to make the decisions which would prove most advantageous to the Athletic Department as a whole. That did not include placing a million-dollar decision into the hands of a football coach, or subjecting it to the whims of a group of twenty-year-old football players. That went out when the 1959 squad voted not to go to the Sugar Bowl

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The "one million" figure sounds quaint. With exponentially more money at stake, we're returning to our bumbling ways of the Dietzel era and the Dean era with our present leadership.