Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
The boosters do have some degree of influence because they have money. That's the delicate balance here. As much as believe you me I would love to tell then to go off and **** themselves for what they have done to our football program I understand the reality is we do need their money. StarkvegasSteve said as much in this thread. The boosters know it too. That's why they can do some of the crap that they do.

But recently the issue we had was when Leach passed away we had on AD to be a buffer so it's not too surprising that they were able to get him and a bunch of their friends on staff.

I will say that I don't think they had as much say when we hired Lebby and to be honest with you if they did have their say I'm not sure that they would have allowed Hutzler to be the DC. In fact, if Hutzler isn't our DC next year there is a good chance it's because of the boosters withdrawing money especially with the rumors that Lebby wants to bring him back. Lebby needs their support and Selmon needs it too. If Lebby doesn't have support he is going to end up being an OC for life. We'll see how it plays out after the Egg Bowl because I really don't know what is going to happen with it.

It's not a coincidence that people like Chad Bumphis and David Turner have been around for multiple coaching regimes.
This would not have been a problem if we would've had an actual AD the previous 5 years. We had a baseball coach. He did not know what to do and instead of being the IB we knew and loved as the baseball coach he became Diplomat Donny and tried to be nice to everyone. He started listening to people that only wanted to advance their agendas and careers and started taking booster input from guys that had been told by Mullen, Byrne, and Strick to cut the checks and shut the 17 up. You give guys like that power again, and they are going to manipulate the hell out of it....which they did.

You're right that it's not a coincidence that Turner and Bumphis have been here with multiple staffs. We overinflate players and former coaches like no other program in the country. Now with Bumphis I will at least say that he's pulled his own weight in terms of recruiting. Turner is living off the fact that he coached Chris Jones(did not recruit him. That was Mullen and Hev) and he helped recruit Jeff (Hughes did the heavy lifting on that one). But we had a bunch of people tell Lebby and Co. that they JUST HAD to have both Turner and Bumphis because of how great recruiters they were. Again, boosters who have no clue what the hell they are talking about trying to peddle influence because they cut a check.