War Machine Dawg
01-03-2020, 04:32 PM
Ding Dong, Jughead's gone!!! It's a great day to be a Bulldog. My quick take on the situation has arrived.
1. This firing was long overdue. I and many others knew last year this wasn't going to work for Jughead. He just doesn't have "it" to be a head coach at this level. I think Finebaum (F that guy anyway) made a really good point today: When you delay the inevitable, it usually boomerangs back to you. This move should've been made after the Battle for the Golden Egg, period. The fact that we didn't make the move then is inexcusable and amateur hour.
2. Our admin should've had these concerns about the culture of the program before now. We've seen the undisciplined play and behavior for 2 years now. It shouldn't have taken a fight and our QB getting his eye socked broken to wake up those in charge.
3. I told you last year that all the coaches who left were rats getting off the sinking ship. The only coaches who stayed that I thought were worth a damn were T-Buck and Shoop.
4. At least we made the hard call, albeit a month too late. That said, I still don't approve of the process. It reeks of another emotional, short sighted decision instead of one made based on evidence, logic, and vision. Bottom line is it's the right result but it's a very flawed process that got us here. That is NOT good.
5. Reading between the lines of Cohen's presser, I think we've got our guy. My gut says it's Napier, but we'll find out soon enough. I'd love to see us find a way to bring in Joe Judge in some capacity, regardless of who we hire. Maybe make him OC and/or assistant HC.
6. Regardless of who's next, I hope we didn't make the move to fire Moorhead without an agreement in place with whoever it is. If we did, we're complete dumbasses and deserve the horrible hire we'll inevitably make as a result.
7. Most of the above can be summed up like this: Process is every bit as important as results. If you have a good process, good results tend to follow. Getting the right result but having a poor process is a recipe for mediocrity at best, disaster at worst. I'm very afraid that we're in the latter camp.
8. Most important point I can make: Despite eventually making the right call, we need a major overhaul in the Bryan Building, starting with Cohen. The man is a fantastic baseball GM, but he's very much in over his head as an Athletic Director. He's had to fire 2 of his 3 major coaching hires after very short tenures. And more than that, he seems to be driven by emotional decision making rather than logical decision making based on evidence. Cohen also seems completely lost when it comes to playing the agent game. Like it or not, agents are a big part of modern college athletics. If you can't deal with them effectively, you have no business being in charge of an SEC athletic department.
We need to go out and hire an AD that has experience in both business and sports. And most importantly, he needs to have no or very limited MSU ties. One of the biggest problems I had with Cohen getting the job, outside of his complete lack of qualifications, was that he was another good ol' boy MSU inbred hire. We need new blood to bring fresh ideas into our athletic department. Another MSU guy isn't going to do that for us. The last "outsider" we had was Byrne, and I think we'd all agree he has been the best AD at State in our lifetimes.
9. Cohen isn't alone in needing to go, though. We need to modernize and bring in fresh blood in every level of our athletic department. But one that sticks out like a sore thumb I feel compelled to mention individually is our compliance department. Why is Bracky Brett, a failed HS coach, still in charge of the compliance for our major athletic programs in the year 2020? If we want to keep him on staff over the non-revenue sports, I have no problem with that. He's good for that role. But for football, men's & women's hoops and baseball we need to have either a former NCAA compliance official or an attorney in charge. No more self reporting every time we fart. No more giving the NCAA all the evidence they ask for, plus extra evidence, and doing all their work for them. Join the big boy club and make the NCAA work to dig up the dirt like almost every other school with sense. If Northern Miss didn't get the death penalty for all the BS they pulled during this last investigation, then the NCAA is completely toothless. We'd be much better off by forcing them to do their own work from now on instead of self-imposing penalties much harsher than we'd get by making them do their job and prove we broke rules.
Just my thoughts, feel free to agree or disagree. Either way, today is a good day for us. We'll see how the rest plays out.
1. This firing was long overdue. I and many others knew last year this wasn't going to work for Jughead. He just doesn't have "it" to be a head coach at this level. I think Finebaum (F that guy anyway) made a really good point today: When you delay the inevitable, it usually boomerangs back to you. This move should've been made after the Battle for the Golden Egg, period. The fact that we didn't make the move then is inexcusable and amateur hour.
2. Our admin should've had these concerns about the culture of the program before now. We've seen the undisciplined play and behavior for 2 years now. It shouldn't have taken a fight and our QB getting his eye socked broken to wake up those in charge.
3. I told you last year that all the coaches who left were rats getting off the sinking ship. The only coaches who stayed that I thought were worth a damn were T-Buck and Shoop.
4. At least we made the hard call, albeit a month too late. That said, I still don't approve of the process. It reeks of another emotional, short sighted decision instead of one made based on evidence, logic, and vision. Bottom line is it's the right result but it's a very flawed process that got us here. That is NOT good.
5. Reading between the lines of Cohen's presser, I think we've got our guy. My gut says it's Napier, but we'll find out soon enough. I'd love to see us find a way to bring in Joe Judge in some capacity, regardless of who we hire. Maybe make him OC and/or assistant HC.
6. Regardless of who's next, I hope we didn't make the move to fire Moorhead without an agreement in place with whoever it is. If we did, we're complete dumbasses and deserve the horrible hire we'll inevitably make as a result.
7. Most of the above can be summed up like this: Process is every bit as important as results. If you have a good process, good results tend to follow. Getting the right result but having a poor process is a recipe for mediocrity at best, disaster at worst. I'm very afraid that we're in the latter camp.
8. Most important point I can make: Despite eventually making the right call, we need a major overhaul in the Bryan Building, starting with Cohen. The man is a fantastic baseball GM, but he's very much in over his head as an Athletic Director. He's had to fire 2 of his 3 major coaching hires after very short tenures. And more than that, he seems to be driven by emotional decision making rather than logical decision making based on evidence. Cohen also seems completely lost when it comes to playing the agent game. Like it or not, agents are a big part of modern college athletics. If you can't deal with them effectively, you have no business being in charge of an SEC athletic department.
We need to go out and hire an AD that has experience in both business and sports. And most importantly, he needs to have no or very limited MSU ties. One of the biggest problems I had with Cohen getting the job, outside of his complete lack of qualifications, was that he was another good ol' boy MSU inbred hire. We need new blood to bring fresh ideas into our athletic department. Another MSU guy isn't going to do that for us. The last "outsider" we had was Byrne, and I think we'd all agree he has been the best AD at State in our lifetimes.
9. Cohen isn't alone in needing to go, though. We need to modernize and bring in fresh blood in every level of our athletic department. But one that sticks out like a sore thumb I feel compelled to mention individually is our compliance department. Why is Bracky Brett, a failed HS coach, still in charge of the compliance for our major athletic programs in the year 2020? If we want to keep him on staff over the non-revenue sports, I have no problem with that. He's good for that role. But for football, men's & women's hoops and baseball we need to have either a former NCAA compliance official or an attorney in charge. No more self reporting every time we fart. No more giving the NCAA all the evidence they ask for, plus extra evidence, and doing all their work for them. Join the big boy club and make the NCAA work to dig up the dirt like almost every other school with sense. If Northern Miss didn't get the death penalty for all the BS they pulled during this last investigation, then the NCAA is completely toothless. We'd be much better off by forcing them to do their own work from now on instead of self-imposing penalties much harsher than we'd get by making them do their job and prove we broke rules.
Just my thoughts, feel free to agree or disagree. Either way, today is a good day for us. We'll see how the rest plays out.