Re: Fire RR
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:52 pm
i agree. However, once the ASSu game is over all bets are off then bring on the young mid major firebrand.Alieberman wrote:I really don't see RR getting fired mid season.
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i agree. However, once the ASSu game is over all bets are off then bring on the young mid major firebrand.Alieberman wrote:I really don't see RR getting fired mid season.
In fact I wouldn't LET him leave unless he agrees to drop a year off his contract.Alieberman wrote:I really don't see RR getting fired mid season.
ASUHATER! wrote:No way we can afford for the program to have him here through 2019. The damage that would cause would nearly take decades to recover from. Better to lose a few millions now than destroy the program until 2035.
I especially enjoy the people saying the RR needs to give money back on his contract. That's how contracts work, yeah, sure.tgrumpy2 wrote:ASUHATER! wrote:No way we can afford for the program to have him here through 2019. The damage that would cause would nearly take decades to recover from. Better to lose a few millions now than destroy the program until 2035.
Oh God give it a break already. It only took us about four years to recover from Makevic and that guy was Satan. 2035?...sheesh. LOL. And look at the gossip fly now. Oh he's tanking the season on purpose. Yea that's it, he wants to be fired because every coach wants that. When RR was pissed on the sidelines during that game, it wasn't because the team was doing good. You should listen to yourselves for crying out loud. lol
Open your eyes and see what is happening. If you can't then you're a lost cause. Fire RR.tgrumpy2 wrote:ASUHATER! wrote:No way we can afford for the program to have him here through 2019. The damage that would cause would nearly take decades to recover from. Better to lose a few millions now than destroy the program until 2035.
Oh God give it a break already. It only took us about four years to recover from Makevic and that guy was Satan. 2035?...sheesh. LOL. And look at the gossip fly now. Oh he's tanking the season on purpose. Yea that's it, he wants to be fired because every coach wants that. When RR was pissed on the sidelines during that game, it wasn't because the team was doing good. You should listen to yourselves for crying out loud. lol
If my ignorance of how the shares were given/structured/whatever means that we have the money sitting there to be used, then that's fantastic news as far as I'm concerned. I simply didn't realize we can use those shares in that manner.azcat49 wrote:If we owe him 6M after this year but we get Stevens to let us use the value of the retention shares then it is a drop in the bucket
I'm not aware of this situation, but to be frank, I kind of purposely avoid diving too deep into such topics any more. If Byrne leaving actually opened up more revenue in the form of donations, that would be a pleasant surprise to meOSUCat wrote:Didn't Byrne leaving actually open new revenue doors since at least one person wasn't going to give to Bryne?
I mean it won't destroy the program until 2035 lol, but yes the quicker he goes the better off the program will be.ASUHATER! wrote:Open your eyes and see what is happening. If you can't then you're a lost cause. Fire RR.tgrumpy2 wrote:ASUHATER! wrote:No way we can afford for the program to have him here through 2019. The damage that would cause would nearly take decades to recover from. Better to lose a few millions now than destroy the program until 2035.
Oh God give it a break already. It only took us about four years to recover from Makevic and that guy was Satan. 2035?...sheesh. LOL. And look at the gossip fly now. Oh he's tanking the season on purpose. Yea that's it, he wants to be fired because every coach wants that. When RR was pissed on the sidelines during that game, it wasn't because the team was doing good. You should listen to yourselves for crying out loud. lol
I recall reading some poster saying as much with regards primarily to Arte Moreno (?), but I guess it's just a matter of waiting to see if that chicken ever comes home to roost or not.OSUCat wrote:Didn't Byrne leaving actually open new revenue doors since at least one person wasn't going to give to Bryne?
*shrugs* I guess. Either way I hope the Moreno thing is legit, because we need some real deep pockets here to help us.NYCat wrote:Was Arte's main problem w Byrne that he was an asu alum?
OSUCat wrote:Didn't Byrne leaving actually open new revenue doors since at least one person wasn't going to give to Bryne?
Was Moreno a big contributor before Byrne? I don't remember any significant gifts from him in the past.ChooChooCat wrote:*shrugs* I guess. Either way I hope the Moreno thing is legit, because we need some real deep pockets here to help us.NYCat wrote:Was Arte's main problem w Byrne that he was an asu alum?
You forgot the indoor practice facility.ChooChooCat wrote:Hell buying out RR is the least of our concerns financially. I'm more concerned with who the hell is going to donate to help us 1. Fix Arizona Stadium 2. Finish renovating McKale 3. Renovate Hillenbrand 4. Pay for new swimming pool 5. Keep Sean Miller happy for eternity.
Can't say I recall him ever being one truthfully.Chicat wrote: Was Moreno a big contributor before Byrne? I don't remember any significant gifts from him in the past.
I've heard financing is already in place there, so I'm not as concerned about this one. It's a done deal either way.Chicat wrote: You forgot the indoor practice facility.
carcassdragger wrote:I think RR will be let go right after the Oregon game. This will be our 7th loss and will ensure a losing season. I sure hope not though. He's a good coach who made some mistakes.
The race will be on to get Chip Kelly by then.
#5 should be #1. The rest is worthy.ChooChooCat wrote:Hell buying out RR is the least of our concerns financially. I'm more concerned with who the hell is going to donate to help us 1. Fix Arizona Stadium 2. Finish renovating McKale 3. Renovate Hillenbrand 4. Pay for new swimming pool 5. Keep Sean Miller happy for eternity.
True, but #1 and #2 do cost the most.Spaceman Spiff wrote:#5 should be #1. The rest is worthy.ChooChooCat wrote:Hell buying out RR is the least of our concerns financially. I'm more concerned with who the hell is going to donate to help us 1. Fix Arizona Stadium 2. Finish renovating McKale 3. Renovate Hillenbrand 4. Pay for new swimming pool 5. Keep Sean Miller happy for eternity.
The big issue is with Arizona Stadium in bad shape, no IPF and no home recruiting base, if we fire RR, how much desirability do we offer a replacement?
Give me Derek Mason or Tee Martin.chiefzona wrote:carcassdragger wrote:I think RR will be let go right after the Oregon game. This will be our 7th loss and will ensure a losing season. I sure hope not though. He's a good coach who made some mistakes.
The race will be on to get Chip Kelly by then.
Chip Kelly is never coming to Arizona. Ever.
Attendance won't drive facility improvement. Also, attendance isn't going to be triggered by an early firing.chiefzona wrote:We all know that attendance is going to tumble. Heeke needs money to accomplish and retain his job. RR is impeding that process.
I think ASU's renovation is the unspoken hurdle that really hurts our renovation efforts. That pulls money from any renovation efforts we could get into, and the second in line always gets scraps.ChooChooCat wrote:True, but #1 and #2 do cost the most.Spaceman Spiff wrote:#5 should be #1. The rest is worthy.ChooChooCat wrote:Hell buying out RR is the least of our concerns financially. I'm more concerned with who the hell is going to donate to help us 1. Fix Arizona Stadium 2. Finish renovating McKale 3. Renovate Hillenbrand 4. Pay for new swimming pool 5. Keep Sean Miller happy for eternity.
The big issue is with Arizona Stadium in bad shape, no IPF and no home recruiting base, if we fire RR, how much desirability do we offer a replacement?
There's really no good reason the state of Arizona should have two major conference schools quite frankly. AZ and ASU are just stealing funds away from each other in athletics and it's dumb, but alas ASU is renovating their stadium for 9 figures and we'll be doing the same, because quite frankly we don't have a choice. It's do this or join the WCC.
You've become a total lunatic. Do you really believe the stuff coming off your keyboard? He's tanking the season? Maybe that's something you'd do because you have no pride in yourself and you don't mind going out a loser. I don't think that's in RR's makeup. My eyes are open. I'm pretty certain RR is going to be gone at the end of the season but a part of me still holds out the hope of being at least a .500 team and I'll hold that hope until they show me they won't be even though that hope is a very slim one. Even the most revered Dick Tomey got a chance to right his ship once and he did it. As far as I'm concerned the bowl games and a Southern Division title gives him that right.ASUHATER! wrote:Open your eyes and see what is happening. If you can't then you're a lost cause. Fire RR.tgrumpy2 wrote:ASUHATER! wrote:No way we can afford for the program to have him here through 2019. The damage that would cause would nearly take decades to recover from. Better to lose a few millions now than destroy the program until 2035.
Oh God give it a break already. It only took us about four years to recover from Makevic and that guy was Satan. 2035?...sheesh. LOL. And look at the gossip fly now. Oh he's tanking the season on purpose. Yea that's it, he wants to be fired because every coach wants that. When RR was pissed on the sidelines during that game, it wasn't because the team was doing good. You should listen to yourselves for crying out loud. lol
chiefzona wrote:There is a small group of Arizona "investors" who are putting up the money to get RR out by December is a small tidbit that I heard in passing.
I saw Chip Kelly the commentator on t.v. over the weekend. Looks like his next stop should be Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers.chiefzona wrote:carcassdragger wrote:I think RR will be let go right after the Oregon game. This will be our 7th loss and will ensure a losing season. I sure hope not though. He's a good coach who made some mistakes.
The race will be on to get Chip Kelly by then.
Chip Kelly is never coming to Arizona. Ever.
I was curious to see how home attendance changed during the final Mike Stoops season, when he was fired after 6 games.Spaceman Spiff wrote:Also, attendance isn't going to be triggered by an early firing.
Good research. That's essentially my point, that fans aren't all of a sudden going to come out for an interim head coach. I think that's more some posters here that dislike RR. The idea that the firing will generate revenue by revitalizing attendance isn't likely. The on field product won't be changing much. A sexy new coach can move the needle, but that isn't happening until next year.Merkin wrote:I was curious to see how home attendance changed during the final Mike Stoops season, when he was fired after 6 games.Spaceman Spiff wrote:Also, attendance isn't going to be triggered by an early firing.
NAU: 52K
Stanford: 50K
Oregon 56K
--Firing--
UCLA: 47K
Utah: 50K
ULL: 39K (strange scheduling last game of the season, even after ASU)
Mackovic was fired after 5 games.
UTEP: 40K
LSU: 46K
Oregon: 40K
TCU: 41K
--Firing--
UCLA: 44K
UW: 48K
USC: 39K
So apparently attendance isn't affected one way or the other.
2017 attendance:
NAU: 44K
UH: 43K
It looks like he didn't get any of it.UAEebs86 wrote:OSUCat wrote:Didn't Byrne leaving actually open new revenue doors since at least one person wasn't going to give to Bryne?
I know he didn't get all of his retention bonus so there should be some extra money there.
Half of Byrne's forfeited units went to Sean Miller. Know recently Candrea and coach Johnson received some unitsazgreg wrote:It looks like he didn't get any of it.UAEebs86 wrote:OSUCat wrote:Didn't Byrne leaving actually open new revenue doors since at least one person wasn't going to give to Bryne?
I know he didn't get all of his retention bonus so there should be some extra money there.
Just off the top of my head, I don't think his run at UNM was all that great. He did beat Stoops, tho.azgreg wrote:I know he's not a young guy but I always wondered why Rocky long didn't get more looks at the P5 level.
He took them to 5 bowls while being bowl eligible 7 straight years and he's done a great job at SDSU.wyo-cat wrote:Just off the top of my head, I don't think his run at UNM was all that great. He did beat Stoops, tho.azgreg wrote:I know he's not a young guy but I always wondered why Rocky long didn't get more looks at the P5 level.
Chief, im curious if you have heard anything regarding Chuck?chiefzona wrote:There is a small group of Arizona "investors" who are putting up the money to get RR out by December is a small tidbit that I heard in passing.
Sid wrote:Chief, im curious if you have heard anything regarding Chuck?chiefzona wrote:There is a small group of Arizona "investors" who are putting up the money to get RR out by December is a small tidbit that I heard in passing.
Thanks!
splitsecond wrote:I am not one to jump on the fire RR bandwagon, especially after 2 games.
But my god, the coaching at the end of the game was incredibly reminiscent of Tomey's last days at Arizona. Completely checked out and lifeless.
My bad. I was actually thinking more about Chuck playing a bigger role on defense now that I've had time to simmer down. Yates has mentioned he wants a HC gig, will he stick around if and when we go a different route?Merkin wrote:Sid wrote:Chief, im curious if you have heard anything regarding Chuck?chiefzona wrote:There is a small group of Arizona "investors" who are putting up the money to get RR out by December is a small tidbit that I heard in passing.
Thanks!
Chuck is a life long position coach except for one year as a DC afterwards he was fired. Same with Ricky Hunley, a lifelong position coach. There is a reason they have never been a head coach at any level.
Besides, Chuck doesn't (and can't) do any recruiting. Is he ready for the 70 hour work weeks and all the travel?
Cats need young blood as HC, with HCing experience.
I am the one guy, I guess. I was sitting in the north end zone directly in the line of sight of Tate on that last interception. He had made a couple of passes on that drive that reminded us why he doesn't start, but the INT was particularly awful. He stared at the receiver, went to throw and someone filled the passing lane. He held up, still tracking the slanting receiver, staring at him the whole way, then gathered and threw. It was crazy...if i had wanted to, I could have ran the 5 rows to the field and through the end zone and picked the ball off myself. I told my wife I didn't know if I had ever seen a worse throw.Merkin wrote:It seemed RichRod almost wanted to lose Saturday with his poor handling of QBs and RBs. No way anyone outside of RichRod thought Dawkins should handle the UA's last drive.
I really don't think that's the case, but if RichRod is tanking the season in order to get a nice fat check from the UA and head back to the broadcast booth with a high 7 figure check from the UA, that is just cause to fire him without paying him a dime.