Hearing

[Commercecomet24]

Exactly, were playing Tournament golf and it's time to act like it.

Amen!

[maroonmania]

If we can seal it- we are about to hire a major S&C coach also.

Coach, what's your take on the Napier reports of him turning us down? Hearing anything on that?

[GT3F8]

Coach, what's your take on the Napier reports of him turning us down? Hearing anything on that?

Bert says it is all a smokescreen for Napier....see Bert?s thread....he da man!

[Coach34]

Coach, what's your take on the Napier reports of him turning us down? Hearing anything on that?

Cohen is penny-pinching and Napier is making him step up. Napier wants $4MM- pay the man

[Commercecomet24]

Cohen is penny-pinching and Napier is making him step up. Napier wants $4MM- pay the man

Exactly! Close the freaking deal Cohen! The mans told you what he wants now close the deal. You can't blow this one!

[KOdawg1]

Cohen is penny-pinching and Napier is making him step up. Napier wants $4MM- pay the man

I swear to God, if Cohen botches this bc he's a cheap ass, him and Joe can move out together.

[BuckyIsAB****]

I refuse to believe we would do this again. We are in the SEC stop acting like its 1989 and lets play ball.

We'd better not actually be penny pinching AGAIN

[BuckyIsAB****]

I refuse to believe we would do this again. We are in the SEC stop acting like its 1989 and lets play ball.

We'd better not actually be penny pinching AGAIN

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Guys I cant blame Cohen here: if we gave Napier that extra 500k wed only be 14.5M in the black, not 15M. Think responsibly people, and ask yourself wwltd

[Coursesuper]

Exactly! Close the freaking deal Cohen! The mans told you what he wants now close the deal. You can't blow this one!

This is why you don't hire an egotistical sob baseball coach to be your athletic director.

[starkvegasdawg]

If we can seal it- we are about to hire a major S&C coach also.

[SailingDawg]

I wish we could all stop saying "Hearing..." It sounds like Yancey Pants!

[War Machine Dawg]

This is why you don't hire an egotistical sob baseball coach to be your athletic director.

But Naborhooddog says Cohen is a great AD and we don't know what we're talking about. Cohen can't possibly 17 this up or have fired Moorhead without a deal with someone else in place. ND has worked in athletic departments with SEC baseball coaches, so his opinion is more valid than ours and can't possibly be wrong!*****

[Jack Lambert]

I think it's reasonable to believe that Cohen knows he has to get this right & will pull out all the stops

I don't think State is at a point we can do two do overs.

[ShotgunDawg]

I don't think State is at a point we can do two do overs.

We can't

You can make 1 bad hire & still survive so long as you recognize it quickly. You can't make two bad hires in a row.

Cohen has to get this right

[TALL DAWG]

If we want Napier I cant imagine hes not insisting on it. Weve got one of the lowest paid staffs in the conference, it's really really hard to get good coaches, let alone keep them. And hes a big recruiter so I'm sure he wants more than the 500k we spend on recruiting staff.

I'm all for it. 1) Its not my money, 2) our athletic department is 15M in the black so we can afford it, and 3) I want to win

U need to check ur figure from #2 above.
I read last week we had something like $50M+ in our
rainy day fund. If correct, we have a lot more in the black.

[Doggie_Style]

We can't

You can make 1 bad hire & still survive so long as you recognize it quickly. You can't make two bad hires in a row.

Cohen has to get this right

Which is why he may go with Hud. It seems the most conservative option.

[Dannyripms]

This has to be obvious to Cohen. We're sitting dead last in the SEC in assistants' salary pool around $3.6 mil according to USA Today article. That needs to be around or slightly above $5 mil to bring in a really solid staff. Let's hope we open up the damn check book this go around.

He needs to understand that that money he spends will be returned 10 fold. Its an investment and if it goes well, erollment increases, merchandise increased sales, endowments increase, etc. Even though Saban gets paid a ton, i'm willing to bet his time in Alabama has generated a billion dollars in return for the town and University of Alabama.