Well Apparently its true this time, as of 11:30Am Ellis Johnson has been fired

[WCUDawg88]

from USM. Hattiesburg American beat writer just tweeted it a few mins ago.

 

[Predestined]

"None and done."

Ouch

 

[Shmuley]

Do we assume the little missus did not like Hattiesburg?

 

[GhostOfJackie]

It was true yesterday when I posted about it. Just was not put out to the media until today. No clue why. Some of his players knew it yesterday as did some of the notible alums. The 2 or 3

 

[was21]

wow...he's getting the full $2.1 mil as well....pretty good one year gig. Where did they get the money? Any banks been robbed in Hburg.

 

[STATEBALLIN]

It was true yesterday when I posted about it. Just was not put out to the media until today. No clue why. Some of his players knew it yesterday as did some of the notible alums. The 2 or 3

Fedora's OC is expected to be offered the job first.

 

[WCUDawg88]

DOnt know how thats possible bc the AD didnt get approved to fire him until this morning. And AD didnt tell Johnson until 11:30 this morning.

 

[mayhemdawg62]

I wonder who will be the head coach at USM???...

I bet there are a lot of Southern fans who would like to see Brett Favre as head coach.

 

[GhostOfJackie]

Johnson knew yesterday he was not coming back. So did the AD and Aubrey Lucus. Why they decided to hold out another day before releasing all this to the public, I don't know. Maybe they had some stuff to work out with the buyout.

Just because they tell you it was done at a certain time, does not mean that's when it actually happened.

 

[patdog]

He gehe full $2.1M buyout. So that's $2.8M for 0 wins for USM. Their cost per win is infinity.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

^^This is why you play one FCS team each season.

 

[patdog]

A friend of mine who is a USM fan says that they've sold their home game with Nebraska for next season back to Nebraska. He claims for $2M, but I doubt they got that much for it, but still probably enough to pay about 1/2 the buyout.

 

[ChinaDogSunflower]

That is the word on the street that I have been hearing. It is supposed to be for $2M.

To me it feels like Ellis came from the Crooms coaching tree. He always talked about "doing things the Right way" but never with anything to show for it on the field. As a head coach he is 17-40. I don't know if that includes this year but I feel safe saying that he is not HC material. Great DC but as a HC, notsomuch. Same as Crooms.

 

[RocketDawg]

No guarantee he would win that one either. Better chance though.

 

[Shmuley]

I'm betting they needed to poll the college board before making it public.

 

[chefdawg]

He gehe full $2.1M buyout. So that's $2.8M for 0 wins for USM. Their cost per win is infinity.

If their jack-*** fans would have at least sold out home games while Fedora was there, the buy-out would be less of an issue. USM fans are a different breed- horrible support and lots of finger-pointing.

 

[QuadrupleOption]

Think he'd like to come back to Starkville as a Defensive Coordinator?

 

[was21]

Reading the AD's statement, he didn't even mention EJ and EJ didn't issue a statement. I don't think it was a very amicable parting. EJ just took the damn $2.1 mil check and headed for the bank.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

He's got at least five years in the MS retirement system. That's 10% of the highest four year average he made. So, if he averaged $250,000, $25,000 a year (plus the 13th check) iss a nice chunk of pocket change to go with his $2.1 million buyout.