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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MikeRafone" data-source="post: 129623367" data-attributes="member: 1482681">Root, what's wrong with the equation is it's gone from "How can I build a program?", to, " How big of a contract can my agent get me?"Once Charlie Weiss hit the quinella at Notre Dame and Kansas, coaches wised up, "I can get a big contract, do a half-assed job, and keep all the loot when I get canned? Get me Charlies agent on the phone!" Throw in a potential TV deal and you're set for life. When schools are football crazy and a coach comes along they're convinced is the next big thing, they throw money at them hand and fist. Who can blame the guy for taking the money? But you will get a lot of guys who are there too soon, or shouldn't be there to begin with. I think Dana is one of the guys who got there too soon. If he'd spent some time in say the MAC, learning his trade and proving himself, he might have the chops. The way he came in here as coach in waiting, then having Stewart throwing his big hissy fit after agreeing to the deal, Dana was thrown from the frying pan into the fire. He was barely ready for the BE, he had a solid season his first year, then clocked Clemson in the bowl and the pockets opened. He's a mid-level Big 12 coach. A stint in the AAC with a few good years and he may be ready for prime time, but who really knows?Being a hot football coach is the sports equivalent of being a high profile heart surgeon in 70's and 80's. Sure most of your patients croaked, but every top flight hospital in the country wanted you, offered huge contracts, and you were retired in one of your five houses by the time you were 50.Human psychology and trends are interesting things. My big vice has always been cigars. I've been smoking them for decades. Most cigar makers made quality sticks but barely scraped by for years. In the mid 90's a guy started an upscale magazine about cigars. Cigars became trendy. These cigar makers, most of whom had never owned a suit, much less wore one in their lives, were going to Hollywood galas and being treated like God's Gift to The World. Prices when through the roof and these guys who had regular names before, all became "Don Yo-Yo" or whatever, and made a pile. Were the cigars any better? No, in fact they were much worse, as aged cigar tobacco supplies were quickly used up. It was crazy. It was a good 10 years before the quality of cigars matched what they were before.People want what they see as the next great thing whether be football coaches or cigars or whatever. Once things reach the tipping point they'll pay out the *** for it and crow they've got shinola when all they've got is a handful of ****. When things finally settle down they find themselves stuck with the handful.</blockquote>

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