idk but the shit is hilarious

12/17/2007 12:50:01 AM

12/17/2007 12:54:32 AM

hehe... poor wvu...

go blue! i can't believe UM landed such a good hire

12/17/2007 7:55:26 AM

http://wbgv.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/nick-sabans-agent-contacts-wvu/

Quote :

"Sources close to University President Mike Garrison have informed WBGV that Nick Saban’s agent has contacted WVU regarding our vacant head-coaching position. These sources tell us that Saban is extremely unhappy in Tuscaloosa and has failed to recapture the situation he had in Baton Rouge with LSU. The purpose of the agent’s call was to express initial interest in the position and to have WVU athletics put together a compensation package enough to lure Saban from Alabama. This package would not need to be as much as Saban is currently making at Alabama, but enough to not result in a 50% paycut. So, we’re obviously talking more than the $1.9 million former coach Rich Rodriguez was making. Again, this is all very preliminary, but solid sources have confirmed that Nick Saban’s agent has contacted West Virginia University. *** UPDATE #1 *** This report has been confirmed by the staff at WVSports.com. Unfortunately, it is posted on their premium board so that confirmation can not be reprinted here. Still, it has been confirmed. *** UPDATE #2 *** Well, it’s not a stone-cold confirmation, but our friend Mike Casazza can’t verify that the story isn’t true. Pardon the double negative, but it looks like this baby certainly has legs. Stay tuned. "

12/17/2007 3:59:04 PM

that'd be some straight up shit.

12/17/2007 4:03:06 PM

at this point, why the fuck would you even want nick saban? dude has no loyalty, has been mediocre to awful at his last two jobs, and will likely jump ship as soon as a bigger offer comes to the table if he does have success.

12/17/2007 4:08:43 PM

it's amazing how these salaries keep going up

I remember when amato was one of the highest paid coaches

12/17/2007 4:30:22 PM

no fucking way Saban goes to WV

12/17/2007 4:33:24 PM

Wow. Saban is trying to milk more money out of Alabama.

12/17/2007 4:36:41 PM

that would be the funniest thing ever

12/17/2007 7:50:00 PM

lol

Saban to take contract extension!

12/17/2007 8:01:24 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3158563

Quote :

" CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia needs a coach and Terry Bowden likes the idea of making a return to coaching in his hometown. Bowden, who grew up in Morgantown when his father, Bobby, was the Mountaineers' coach and played at West Virginia, has been out of coaching since 1998. Not long after Rich Rodriguez left the Mountaineers to take the Michigan job, Bowden, the former Auburn coach, let it be known he's interested in the West Virginia vacancy. "I made a full commitment to get back into coaching almost two years ago. Coming home to West Virginia would obviously be the dream job for me," Bowden, a college football analyst on radio and for Yahoo! Sports, said in a statement released by his publicist. When reached at his home Monday in Orlando, Fla., Bowden wouldn't say whether he's been in contact with the Mountaineers (No. 9 BCS, No. 11 AP) since Sunday, when it was announced Rodriguez was going to Michigan. Sunday, sources told ESPN's John Buccigross that Bowden had been in contact with the school. West Virginia athletic director Ed Pastilong didn't immediately return a telephone message Monday. Pastilong must first find an interim coach to lead West Virginia (10-2) in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2 against Oklahoma (No. 4 BCS, No. 3 AP) (11-2). Rodriguez said he wouldn't coach the Mountaineers in the bowl because he didn't want to be a distraction. "The attention should be on the team. But I have not talked to West Virginia University about that," he said. Rodriguez's $4 million buyout clause in his West Virginia contract still must be worked out. When Michigan lured basketball coach John Beilein away from West Virginia last April, his contract had a $2.5 million buyout clause. Under an agreement with West Virginia, Beilein agreed to pay $1.5 million to the WVU Foundation. The interim coach won't be offensive coordinator Calvin Magee or secondary coach and recruiting coordinator Tony Gibson. Rodriguez introduced them at his Michigan news conference. Magee declined comment on his immediate future. Gibson said he has committed to coming to Michigan but hadn't told West Virginia officials as of Monday morning. "My contract goes through June, but when I get back I'm going to sit with the AD and say I'm going to Michigan when the bowl is over," said Gibson, who planned to fly back to Morgantown later Monday. Gibson said he wouldn't call any West Virginia recruits who had made verbal commitments. "We'll start recruiting for the University of Michigan right away," he said. Bobby Bowden coached the Mountaineers from 1970-75, going 42-26 before leaving for Florida State. Terry Bowden played running back for West Virginia in 1977-78. Terry Bowden won his first 20 games at Auburn and 47 overall in six-plus seasons before resigning on Oct. 23, 1998, after learning he was going to be fired at the end of the season. Another coach interested in West Virginia is Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster, said his agent, Bob Lattinville, although he said no contact has been made with the Mountaineers. Also being mentioned as a possible candidate is Florida State offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher, a Clarksburg native. But Fisher has a $2.5 million buyout clause in his contract if he leaves Florida State before Jan. 9, 2011, after agreeing to be FSU's "head coach-in-waiting.""

[Edited on December 17, 2007 at 8:16 PM. Reason : ]

12/17/2007 8:14:23 PM

They need to make a movie about the coaching carousel in college football focusing on big names like Saban, Rodriguez, and Petrino, with Paccino as Saban, Andy Garcia as Rodriguez, and Macauley Culkin's father in Home Alone as Petrino

12/17/2007 8:23:35 PM

Billy Bob Thornton as Saban.... and I have heard Bowden a lot too

12/17/2007 8:44:12 PM

I can see that with Billy Bob, but Paccino would have to play someone

12/17/2007 8:47:28 PM

Quote :

"After Rich Rodriguez escaped from the land of burning couches for the greener pastures of Michigan, West Virginia is the latest school in need of a coach. Unemployed coach Terry Bowden was the first name to be floated because of obvious ties dating back to his father’s days as coach of the Mountaineers, but the rumor mill almost tilted this afternoon when the name Nick Saban popped up. Yup, Nick By God Saban. According to the eBays (including a WVU Rivals site), Saban’s agent contacted West Virginia about the job. Hey, when Bobby Petrino out “Sabans”…Saban himself…you gotta do what you gotta do to be top weasel."

12/17/2007 9:37:18 PM

WE DON'T WANT THAT ASSHOLE SABAN...WE'LL TAKE EITHER BOWDEN OR FOSTER FROM VT

12/18/2007 12:27:28 PM

WHICHEVER ASSHOLE YOU TAKE MICHIGAN WILL TAKE THEM FROM YOU LIKE BEILEIN AND RODRIGUEZ AHAHA NOBODY WANTS TO COACH FOR A BUNCH OF INBRED COUCH BURNERS

12/18/2007 12:28:37 PM

Quote :

"WVU officials blamed for coach leaving Tuesday, December 18, 2007 By Chuck Finder, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The wealthy donors primarily responsible for keeping Rich Rodriguez as head football coach at West Virginia University 53 weeks ago are angry and frustrated over his departure this week for the University of Michigan. Their ire isn't directed at Mr. Rodriguez. It's aimed at WVU administrators. "I tell you what, I've never seen anything mishandled as much as this was," Bob Reynolds, former chief operating officer of Fidelity Investments, said yesterday. "Here's a university that made a $200,000 decision -- it probably could've cost less than that [to keep Mr. Rodriguez] -- and it's going to cost them millions" in booster support, potential bowl money and revenue from football success. "I've had calls from at least six major contributors to the program, and they're all done [donating] because they know the Mickey Mouse things that have gone on there," Mr. Reynolds continued. "I've been in business 36 years, and it's the worst business decision I've ever seen. I've been the COO of a 45,000-person company. When somebody's producing, you ask, 'What can I do for you to make your life better?' Not 'What can I do to make your life more miserable?' They have no idea how big this is. It's frightening." Mr. Reynolds declined to discuss it, but one source said he informed university officials yesterday that he planned to withdraw $12 million in donations he pledged to the school. Earl G. "Ken" Kendrick Jr., a part owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks and benefactor to the WVU College of Business and Economics and other colleges in his home state, said: "I'm severely disappointed in leadership. I'm discouraged by the decision-making and lack of judgment. And the lack of respect for key employees -- because this isn't just about Rich, he's just the most high-profile one. It's a sad story. It's compelling to me as somebody who's given emotional and financial support to the university. And it makes it questionable to me as I go forward." Mr. Rodriguez, both at the top of his program's prestige and other colleges' candidate lists, made what he considered relatively simple requests. However, his employers considered them "gun-to-the-head" demands because he already had the Michigan offer, said one source close to the administration. All agree that the details separating the two sides had nothing to do with Mr. Rodriguez getting richer. In separate meetings with Athletic Director Ed Pastilong, Chief of Staff Craig Walker and, finally, late Saturday night with newly installed President Mike Garrison, he asked the university to do the following: • Allow at least an additional $100,000 in bonus money for his assistants. • Allow scholarship players to retain possession of textbooks at the end of each term, which meant they could have sold them, as apparently happens at other programs. • Waive a $5 ticket fee for each high-school football coach attending Mountaineer home games, a fee that generates an estimated $5,000 for the university each season. • Hire seven graduate assistants and a new recruiting coordinator, to ease the duties performed by secondary coach Tony Gibson. "You could do them in 15 minutes," Mr. Reynolds said of the wish list. Those supporters, who pledged millions last December for the six-year, $1.9 million-per-year contract that helped to keep Mr. Rodriguez from accepting the University of Alabama coaching position, offered to absorb the additional costs. Their offer was denied. "It is frustrating to me that when push came to shove, we weren't included in a possible solution," said Wheeling, W.Va., lawyer Dean Hartley, who last year donated toward VIP seating added to Mountaineer Field. "We were not asked to do anything that would bridge the divide that had developed obviously between the administration and Rich. Over the weekend, I've just been bitter over the way it was handled, especially knowing that it wasn't about Rich getting a raise." "[Mr. Rodriguez] was flabbergasted, because this did not have to happen," said Mr. Reynolds, a Boston-area resident who also donated toward the new academic center that was part of Mr. Rodriguez's deal last December. "It just became political, and he didn't think he was supported. And I don't blame him." Some of the items discussed were part of the contract extension signed Aug. 24, more than eight months after the details were first hammered out last December. Mr. Rodriguez's representatives maintain that university administrators agreed to other requests that haven't been met, though they decline to publicly specify them. In short, it means Mr. Rodriguez might contest the $4 million he owes WVU to buy out his contract, by claiming the university acted in bad faith or fraudulently. The search for a new coach to replace Mr. Rodriguez, a Grant Town, W.Va., native who went 60-26 and to five bowls in seven seasons, began yesterday. The only known candidate to step forward is former Auburn coach and current ABC/ESPN announcer Terry Bowden, son of former Mountaineer coach Bobby Bowden. Sources said Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster and former Mountaineers assistant head coach Rick Trickett of Florida State may soon come to Morgantown to interview for the vacancy. Other possible candidates mentioned include Penn State defensive coordinator Tom Bradley; Huntington, W.Va., native Jim Grobe of Wake Forest; Central Michigan coach and former Mountaineers assistant Butch Jones; Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster and former Mountaineers assistant head coach Rick Trickett of Florida State and Florida State offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher. The West Virginia boosters have become close to Mr. Rodriguez and acknowledged that he grew depressed -- one described it as despairing -- over the 13-9 loss to Pitt that cost the Mountaineers a chance to play in the national championship game. Mr. Hartley said he found it "amazing" that in the last year, WVU lost its basketball coach, John Beilein, to Michigan; the head of the Mountaineer Athletic Club, Whit Babcock, who was instrumental in last December's rally that kept Mr. Rodriguez, to Missouri; the swimming coach, Sergio Lopez, after winning the Big East title, to a Jacksonville, Fla., high school swimming program; and women's soccer coach, Nikki Izzo-Brown. One college where she reportedly interviewed? The same place where Mr. Beilein and Mr. Rodriguez work. "Maybe we should be a farm system," Mr. Hartley added, "until our coaches get good enough that they can coach at Michigan.""

12/18/2007 4:12:12 PM

WVU has interview our old friend Doc Holliday

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3162272

that'd be a pretty interesting hire

12/19/2007 9:02:50 PM

If by interesting you mean "bad" then yeah, it would be interesting.

12/19/2007 11:59:52 PM

Doc is the best recruiter in the country

Amato and Meyer have him to thank for some of their STAR players...

he is the ultimate deal sealer

12/20/2007 2:32:45 AM

Quote :

"the swimming coach, Sergio Lopez, after winning the Big East title, to a Jacksonville, Fla., high school swimming program;"

Sounds like something Fowler would let happen.

12/20/2007 8:08:49 AM

fuuuuuuuuck



Trooper Taylor took the co-offensive coordinator job at Oklahoma State... thats a HUGE loss for Tennessee, MUCH MUCH bigger than Cutcliffe, he is an AMAZING recruiter and a damn good coach. I think Fulmer just thought he was too young, too inexperienced to take over at OC for Tennessee. Damn. Maybe we can get him back here soon, the man is a beast.





oh, and I guess they wont be using this new commercial much:




[Edited on December 20, 2007 at 11:12 AM. Reason : s]

12/20/2007 11:03:48 AM

No one here knows or cares how much of a loss that is for Tennessee.

12/20/2007 11:29:16 AM

yeah, not knowing shit about college football is AWESOME!


ignorance rules!

12/20/2007 11:50:27 AM

Looks like WVU will either be Bowden (more likely) or Fisher, both alums... I think that if Fisher didn't sign that contract with FSU recently that he would have taken this job but it was just bad timing really..

I am not sure what Terry Bowden's deal is... we all know his personal problems but he is a really good in-game coach... can he recruit though?

12/23/2007 11:16:05 PM

Neuheisel to UCLA

12/29/2007 5:48:09 PM

Stewart staying at WVU

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3178538

1/3/2008 9:33:13 AM

Interesting. I think WVU made the easy hire. They appeared to be ready to hire Doc Holliday before the grassroots movement for Terry Bowden put that hire on hold. He did a good job with bowl preparation. We'll have to see if it works out in the long run, or if they have a Carl Torbush on their hands.

1/3/2008 9:51:08 AM

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/ncaa/01/07/ap.fbc.apnewsalert.ap/index.html
June Jones to SMU.

Hawaii now the only open coaching job.

1/7/2008 1:43:13 PM

NORM CHOW is going back to Cali! (Bruins)


http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3206978

1/21/2008 3:20:24 PM

Good move for UCLA.

1/21/2008 3:22:24 PM

Huge for offensive recruiting, esp. interstate against USC.

1/21/2008 3:24:36 PM

good hire.

1/21/2008 3:26:37 PM

Crazy how many of his college qb's are in the pros now (three starting) and at least one backup (who will probably get a SB ring this year-Cassell)

1/21/2008 3:26:48 PM

Proving that coaches def. make a difference..... Bruins stole a 5 star JUCO QB from Hawaii AND SMU-Kevin Craft verballed to Hawaii-Jones left and then he verballed to SMU..... Chow stole him.

Chow and Neuheisel are meeting with Darrell Scott (#1 rated RB recruit) today. If he chooses UCLA by signing day it'll be crazy to see how many recruits pull their commitments from other schools.

1/30/2008 4:25:33 PM

Damn, Notre Dame got John Tenuta.

1/31/2008 8:56:48 PM

Just to recap all the coaching changes for football since the carousel for basketball is already starting to turn.

School - Coach - Reason - Replaced by
Southern Miss - Jeff Bower - resigned (didn't see that coming) - Larry Fedora
Nebraska - Bill Callahan - fired - Bo Pelini (former LSU and Nebraska D-coordinator)
Duke - Ted Roof - fired - David Cutcliffe
Navy - Paul Johnson - hired at Georgia Tech - Ken Niumatalolo (promoted from assistant head and offensive line coach)
Georgia Tech - Chan Gailey - fired - Paul Johnson
Baylor - Guy Morriss - fired - Art Briles
Houston - Art Briles - hired at Baylor - Kevin Sumlin
Colorado State - Sonny Lubick - fired - Steven Fairchild
Michigan - Lloyd Carr - retired (forced?) - Rich Rodriguez
Northern Illinois - Joe Novak - retired after an exceptional 12 seasons at NIU - Jerry Kill
SMU - Phil Bennett - fired - June Jones
Hawaii - June Jones - hired at SMU - Greg McMackin (promoted from D-coordinator position)
Washington State - Bill Doba - resigned, probably forced - Paul Wulff
Arkansas - Houston Nutt - resigned due to crazy Arkansas fans and took over Ole Miss - Bobby Petrino
Ole Miss - Ed Orgeron - fired - Houston Nutt
Texas A&M - Dennis Franchione - fired - Mike Sherman
UCLA - Karl Dorrell - fired - Rick Neuheisel
West Virginia - Rich Rodriguez - resigned to take the Michigan job - Bill Stewart

2/13/2008 8:13:41 PM

Coaching Carousel for College Basketball

School - Coach - Reason - Replaced by
LSU - John Brady - fired - Open
Oregon State - Jay John - fired - Open
Texas Tech - Bobby Knight - resigned - Pat Knight (promoted from HC Designate)
San Francisco - Jessie Evans - leave of absence (unknown if it will be permanent) - Open (Eddie Sutton is the Interim HC for now)
Pepperdine - Vince Walberg - resigned due to family issues - Open

2/13/2008 8:26:34 PM

ttt

10/29/2008 2:32:50 PM

Football:

Washington- Willingham fired
Clemson-Bowden fired/forced resignation/whatever

Basketball:
Lute Olsen- retired

[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 3:07 PM. Reason : forced?]

10/29/2008 3:06:51 PM