Great point. If I remember right, Callahan, Riley and Frost all got extensions but it was at a point where the A.D. himself was on the hot seat. And so the AD gave the head coach he was tied to an extension. Now THAT is really stupid. At least in this case, we are extending a guy who would be pursued by other places and the A.D. isn't worried about his own job.
There is no way we want to see Rhule leave and take top performing players with him (and we're talking about the best of the best). Plus losing some top recruits. Then after Florida, LSU make their hires, we're battling Wisconsin, Arkansas and maybe Florida State, who knows what else for the leftovers. The last few hires were worse than Rhule. The odds would be that our next hire will be not as good of a coach.
Rhule’s agent was masterful in getting this done before USC pulls down our pants and bends us over.
Well I don’t believe you can accurately say “nothing” but I do believe it’s premature extendulation.
All the P4 schools are doing it. It’s become part of the cost of doing business
Sad but probably true. We would lose EJ for sure. Probably our best DBs, backers and a WR. I doubt we could match PSU’s NIL offers if it came to that.
IF we get bent over by USC and UCLA, Dannen will be worried about his own job. This extension probably didn’t happen in a vacuum. I have to believe a few of the boosters of substance were well aware and had input.
I understand that you don’t want to make long term decisions based on single games. But the timing would be better if we could offer in the next couple of weeks or ideally in the off season. We beat USC at home - offer him Monday night if it has to be now. Doing it in advance will rub a lot of people wrong and magnify if we lose. If they are concerned about the recruits at the game we just have to point to the length of current contract.
One argument could be getting this done before we get embarrassed by USC etal. Make it too expensive to can him because you know the howls will do nothing but get louder than after the Minnesota debacle. I’m really pessimistic about the ending to this season. It could be that the AD is as well but has sold the power brokers that coaching turnover in this environment would be self defeating.
Or maybe his job was never in question. I think a lot of you act like he was on the hot seat this season, when he never was. We're in the middle of a total rebuild and stand currently at 6-2.
The rebuild is behind schedule IMO.
According to who? I think you're being unrealistic.
My eyes. We are squeaking by weak teams and lost badly to an awful Minnesota team. I’m not saying we haven’t seen progress and I’m fairly optimistic about the future if we can keep the roster together. I had hoped for more this year than that MN game We have more talent than Minnesota.
I think it’s too early in the season to say that. Several assuming we only win 6 - we have 4 more games and the results will tell the story. If we end up with 6-7 wins I would 100% agree we are behind. If we finish with with 8-9 - I think we are on schedule.
Necessary? Maybe not. Unavoidable? Probably and I think Dannen did it with the blessing of the dollar bills.
Wildly overpaying for mediocre results leads to more mediocre results. It's a dumb move regardless of who signed off on it.
A team that had a single winning season from 2015-2023 might take a bit of time to wash the losing culture out.
But, but, but we were the greatest in the 90’s and we know what championship football looks like.
