Flight tracker speculation…..
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You don’t have to be a billionaire to donate nearly $8 million. But Carl Cook certainly fits that description.
Same as I knew that Craig Johnson would be next RB coach
I feel like ADs of schools who want other teams to take their beleaguered coach off their hands, come to the fan forums and act as hype men for them. So strange.
You're starting to win me over. Much stronger argument than the Eastern Michigan coach supporters. .
This has to be a joke.
Remember children . . . mommy doesn't like it when you argue.
I have some Florida land for sale, if you think the AD is taking the pulse of internet fan forums as any part of his decision-making process.
Good grief, you just couldn't wait until the decision was made, could you?
It would seem to me that your statement on the face is false, with the facts we have now.
Virtually no one thought Allen would be fired because of the buy out.
The easy thing, the path of someone that doesn't care, would to have hidden behind the buy out and kept Allen.
BUT Dolson took action, raised the money and fired Allen.
And I think he knows that a new coach will demand more money for salaries and facilities.
Plus, rumors are that he is only looking at established head coaches. So, no hiring from within.
All of that tells me that Dolson knows the importance of football even though he is not a "football" guy.
Glass might have been his boss/mentor but IMO, with firing Archie and Allen, Dolson has been much more decisive.
I think he just made a pretty big move, don’t you? This probably took some work on Scott’s part to get buy in from BOT and POTU. Recall Glass got pushback firing Crean and had to get a BOT backer to get it done
Bill Cosby always criticized comedians for cursing too....
I will say, although the act of re-signing CTA to this deal has proven to be the wrong one, I don't think that is the biggest factor of being the AD. A factor, yes, but as you alluded to, it's all the other things around the hiring that pulls it all together.
We need an AD who can convince the 'deciderers' to invest in the program. He convinced them to give multiple pay raises based on good performance (at that time) which can become a fault IF he was also unable to get them to buy-out if it all fell apart. He did that so although we certainly need Dolson to dig in and find the right guy, there is a lot of luck in that piece. I do like that he has come through on the factors he has genuine control on that past administrations seemed to lack the ability to do.
Back to flightaware. I see another flight coming in to Bloomington from Boca Raton today. Tom Herman makes a lot of sense here. Proven head coach did really well at Houston. Won at Texas, including 5 bowl wins, just didn't win enough thereto keep his job with the high expectations. He wouldn't have near as much pressure here. Struggled at FAU this year but they are a dumpster fire in transition and he managed to win 4 games.
I don’t see another Boca Flight for today. I only see
Arrival
Latrobe Pa landed
Hilton Head. In the air
Middletown Wi in the air
Abingdon Va 2pm
Hilton Head 2:14pm
Bentonville Ar. 9:18pm
Departure
St Louis. 2:30pm
He beat Tulsa (Kevin Wilson) and came close to beating Illinois. But, FAU had won at least 5 games dating back to 2017 and even had two 11-win seasons in that time span. That's not to imply he didn't have an overhaul with the modern portal and staff turnover but its something to make note of.
Whoever came in from Winston Salem last night left at noon to go back.
Could easily have been split three or four ways. Scott laerned under glass for a long time and Fred was extremely well-connected and a fantastic fund raiser.
In the first game since getting rid of Matt Canada, the Steelers just had over 400 yards. Pretty solid amount after getting rid of your OC, right? Well it looks even better when it's the first time they've gone for over 400 yards since September 20, 2020, 58 games! Canada was the OC for '21, '22, and '23 until this past week.
Bring him in as an analyst or strictly a QB coach but nothing more important than that. I'm already hearing enough rumblings that make me lose any faith I had.
Hagan can suck it. That dude is persona non grata up in here.
Why bring him in for anything? Dude is terrible at his job. He took the Walk Bell hustle to the next level.
That’s not Canada. That plane flies between small regional airports and Air Force Bases. It going to make 3 trips between Scott AFB and Bloomington today.
MC stayed publicly he doesn’t even want the kids in his family playing football due to CTE.
Says if the NFL were a stock he would sell it and buy E-Sports b/c it’s a “level playing field”.
Herman is a member of Mensa International. Well, he is no dummy that's
for sure. Could not hurt to have a really smart guy in charge. Coaching
record is not bad. OK, lets do it.
There were two other big donors who bought out Archie. One was a car dealership guy. I’m sure there are plenty of donors not as rich or famous as Cuban.
