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Q- Who knew this was a terrible idea being made by dumb people?
A- Everyone
Q- Who knew this was a terrible idea being made by dumb people?
A- Everyone
Mel Tucker
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Since most of the money was paid by boosters, I doubt Michigan State will be forced to retain him for financial reasons if they have another poor season. I watched parts of two of their games last year, and they were not a good football team.
One of my former clients, now deceased, was a huge MSU booster. Chartered a plane from Los Angeles to wherever they were playing every weekend. He had started his business (trade magazines) before marriage and the big issue in his divorce from wife #2 was the character of the business because it had grown enormously in value during the marriage. There was a prenuptial agreement but it had been written by a college fraternity brother from MSU who practiced law in Michigan and knew nothing about family law or California.
The day the judge ruled that the agreement was valid and the business was his separate property ( a decision worth $20 to $30 Million to him), he was nevertheless very glum. Why? Because Nick Saban left MSU for LSU.
Priorities!
One of my former clients, now deceased, was a huge MSU booster. Chartered a plane from Los Angeles to wherever they were playing every weekend. He had started his business (trade magazines) before marriage and the big issue in his divorce from wife #2 was the character of the business because it had grown enormously in value during the marriage. There was a prenuptial agreement but it had been written by a college fraternity brother from MSU who practiced law in Michigan and knew nothing about family law or California.
The day the judge ruled that the agreement was valid and the business was his separate property ( a decision worth $20 to $30 Million to him), he was nevertheless very glum. Why? Because Nick Saban left MSU for LSU.
Priorities!
It makes everyone feel good to elevate a coach who happens to fall into a desired demographic.
If they are successful, everyone can bask in the wonderment of doing well by doing good. Administrators, trustees, faculty, other stakeholders normally uninterested or even hostile to the football program suddenly are happy.
Until or if the guy isn’t successful.
Then, there is an additional element of dilemma. You can’t just coldly dump the guy and send him off with a a big check. It’s not quite business as usual. Especially for a university, in this day and age of hyper social focus.
If they are successful, everyone can bask in the wonderment of doing well by doing good. Administrators, trustees, faculty, other stakeholders normally uninterested or even hostile to the football program suddenly are happy.
Until or if the guy isn’t successful.
Then, there is an additional element of dilemma. You can’t just coldly dump the guy and send him off with a a big check. It’s not quite business as usual. Especially for a university, in this day and age of hyper social focus.
I seriously doubt race factored into the decision at all. MSU's rich alumni thought they struck gold after one good season and brokered this deal. Wealthy alumni force a lot of stupid things on schools but this was exceptionally over the top.
They had just been embroiled in major scandal there and this certainly was a consideration to try to buy some good will. They learned this tactic from their conference mate to the East that did exactly the same thing.
Franklin didn't get his extension until after Tucker.
I don’t think a recruiting first guy is what MSU needed.
You’re only ever going to recruit so well in East Lansing. The local talent base is thin, and Tucker is finding out that unless you’re Ohio State or maybe Michigan, you aren’t going into the South or Texas and stealing a bunch of 4* recruits from the local schools.
You’re only ever going to recruit so well in East Lansing. The local talent base is thin, and Tucker is finding out that unless you’re Ohio State or maybe Michigan, you aren’t going into the South or Texas and stealing a bunch of 4* recruits from the local schools.
Just adding, Tucker hired Mark Diethorn as his Director of Player Personnel and Recruiting. Pittsburgh native who worked at Pitt for a bit under Duzz. Also spent time at VaTech and Florida.
It is common to hire a black coach after a controversy, but typically that coach is dumped quickly once the controversy is out of the publics mind. Teams don't really throw money at black guys to look good- if that was true there'd be more of them as head coaches at major programs. Right now there's only a handful.
This plays out in corporate world too. Bad controversy? Hire a female CEO then shit can her as soon as the public forgets why you were in hot water.
LOL. The king of digging out the 4 year old thread.
Amend what? A couple of dumb billionaires just saved a boatload of money. MSU has some egg on face and gets a mulligan on a bonehead contract that they had little of their own skin in the game on. Dumb as their brass is there, maybe they’ll follow it up with another bonehead move and hire your hero away from Pitt so they can go 6-6 for a few more years.
In the meantime, you can go fish out some more 4 year old posts like the no life piss ant loser you are.
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