It’s Archie’s second year. No one is getting fired.
OK maybe I'm jumping the gun. I just really like how t he FB program is improving and would hate for BB fallout to adversely affect it. You are right, won't happen.
I'll play...A new AD would probably meet with all the coaches and set his or her expectations. I could not imagine a new AD coming in to start immediate firings unless it was already in the making before they came. After a year or two if those coaches could not meet those expectations you would see moves.
A new AD would have to work with a president and trustees that try to win in football on a budget. If they can't get approval to go after some big fish, the AD will realize that CTA is as good as others he would replace him with. I actually believe he can get the program where we go to bowl games every third year or so. If he can do that without having really bad years between, CTA will stay for a long time.
A new AD would have to work with a president and trustees that try to win in football on a budget. If they can't get approval to go after some big fish, the AD will realize that CTA is as good as others he would replace him with. I actually believe he can get the program where we go to bowl games every third year or so. If he can do that without having really bad years between, CTA will stay for a long time.
McRobbie leaving doesn't guarantee we will get a president that is an athletic supporter but iI would take my chances.
I am not sure how I feel about a new AD. Even though it should not be this way there is no doubt that basketball rules the roost at IU. If Fred Glass gets fired in the next couple of year it will not be because of Tom Allen or IU football it will be because of basketball. The next guy will certainly know that and to keep his job he will have to keep the basketball people happy and some of that might be at the expense of football. I do not know all the facts but have read on these boards that we are still paying Tom Crean. If we fire Archie Miller we will be paying him some money too and they will have to pay a new basketball coach a lot. Where does that leave our football team? I’m not sure but I don’t think I like the sound of it.
You can't run an AD where you put the football program at the mercy of the basketball program....don't know what else to say. I understand people up there think it should be that way, but that certainly doesn't make it right.
I agree that it shouldn’t be that way but that is what I am worried about. If the current AD is fired soon I think that it will be because of basketball. Let me put it another way. If IU went 4-8 every year in football but the basketball team was winning do you think anybody outside of the biggest football fans would be saying the AD should be fired? I think the only time the AD is questioned is when basketball is bad and that sends a signal to the next guy that you better put basketball first. I don’t like it either but I think the only way to change it is for football to win and give the fans a taste of what that is like. Then maybe the people who care about football would not be in a big minority. But then I read these mad posts on the basketball side and you have some guys with Irish this or that in their nickname and I have a bad feeling about who they cheer for in the fall so I am not sure what to do about that.
You don't see basketball hiring cheaper first time head coaches as a rule. They have never invested in the staff for football as they have for basketball. I expect they like to put money back into the programs that make the most impact.
You don't see basketball hiring cheaper first time head coaches because they don't have to. IU basketball is actually a coveted job for coaches. IU football, on the other hand, has traditionally been viewed as one of the most difficult and undesirable coaching jobs in college sports.
Maybe? Most ADs eventually want their guys in the main sports. So if Fred gets the boot anytime soon and if Allen were to underperform again, I could certainly see a new football coach.
No but you lead people to believe it just started with him.
Cue the "But Jeff Brohm did it overnight at Purdue" diatribe against IU.
