Auburn fired him today. Just thought I would let my southern miss friends know he is available again

j/k

what an idiot

(11-30-2014 07:30 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Auburn fired him today. Just thought I would let my southern miss friends know he is available again

j/k

what an idiot

what the hell. I think we're still paying him.

Agree he can't coach, but he is laughing all the way to the bank. USM is still paying him and it is costing Auburn 2.5 million.

(11-30-2014 08:02 PM)thunder1114 Wrote:  Agree he can't coach, but he is laughing all the way to the bank. USM is still paying him and it is costing Auburn 2.5 million.

Ellis's contract- which called for USM to pay him outright, regardless of whether he'd been fired and then found comparable employment- is the single biggest piece of evidence for something I've been saying since 2011: the main reason we're 4-32 and looking at our former peers through metaphorical plate glass is the incompetence of our hired leaders.

You can tell me that IHL hates us, that UAB killed our recruiting, etc., but you can't describe that contract as anything but a self-inflicted $2,500,000 wound, courtesy of Jeff Hammond and the people attempting to supervise him at the time. It would not surprise me at all if some of that $2,500,000 were to be discovered in a Hammond bank account.

Why does everyone continue to hire this guy?

(12-01-2014 03:48 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Why does everyone continue to hire this guy?

I suggested one possibility (our AD got a kick back).

Beyond that, I would say that the "hiring EJ" trend has probably peaked.

After what he did to/at USM and then to/at Auburn I would be shocked if he got a job at a P5 school. I could see a G5 school who was desperate for a last ditch effort thinking they could get him cheap for a few years but I don't see how/why anyone in D1 would hire him at this point

(12-01-2014 03:46 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(11-30-2014 08:02 PM)thunder1114 Wrote:  Agree he can't coach, but he is laughing all the way to the bank. USM is still paying him and it is costing Auburn 2.5 million.

Ellis's contract- which called for USM to pay him outright, regardless of whether he'd been fired and then found comparable employment- is the single biggest piece of evidence for something I've been saying since 2011: the main reason we're 4-32 and looking at our former peers through metaphorical plate glass is the incompetence of our hired leaders.

You can tell me that IHL hates us, that UAB killed our recruiting, etc., but you can't describe that contract as anything but a self-inflicted $2,500,000 wound, courtesy of Jeff Hammond and the people attempting to supervise him at the time. It would not surprise me at all if some of that $2,500,000 were to be discovered in a Hammond bank account.

Andre.. you forget that ELL12 was Miss Martha's last hire.. not JH's. Your point is still valid about certain incompetents in the leadership role, but you're pointing your finger at the wrong leader in this case.