When you guys lost your coach 4 years in a row was he gone b4 bowl game?

Did an interim coach bowl game every time?

(12-09-2015 10:07 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  When you guys lost your coach 4 years in a row was he gone b4 bowl game?

Did an interim coach bowl game every time?

Yes. Every time the head coach left, we replaced him with one of the assistants. This was even true back in 2011 when our moron AD decided to allow half the assistants to leave before the bowl, leaving us with 4 coaches for a game against Northern Illinois.

(12-09-2015 10:07 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  When you guys lost your coach 4 years in a row was he gone b4 bowl game?

Did an interim coach bowl game every time?

Yup. First time Freeze wanted to coach it but our former AD didn't want that.

Malzahn and Harsin were gone, and John Thompson, our Defensive Coordinator, coached those bowls.

The Freeze Bowl we were screwed and had high school coaches filling in.

The big boys with the big money want their new coach 100% focused on their program and recruiting.

It might have been different if we didn't play in the late bowl those years - GoDaddy was always in January.

(12-09-2015 10:10 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-09-2015 10:07 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  When you guys lost your coach 4 years in a row was he gone b4 bowl game?

Did an interim coach bowl game every time?

Yes. Every time the head coach left, we replaced him with one of the assistants. This was even true back in 2011 when our moron AD decided to allow half the assistants to leave before the bowl, leaving us with 4 coaches for a game against Northern Illinois.

I look back on that and those 4 minor assistants and their high-school volunteers didn't do a half bad job in making it at least competitive.

(12-09-2015 10:12 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(12-09-2015 10:10 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-09-2015 10:07 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  When you guys lost your coach 4 years in a row was he gone b4 bowl game?

Did an interim coach bowl game every time?

Yes. Every time the head coach left, we replaced him with one of the assistants. This was even true back in 2011 when our moron AD decided to allow half the assistants to leave before the bowl, leaving us with 4 coaches for a game against Northern Illinois.

I look back on that and those 4 minor assistants and their high-school volunteers didn't do a half bad job in making it at least competitive.

Amazingly yes. We were up I think 17 points until the refs inproperly gave a first down spot to NIU on a 4th down play. Game completely changed at that point.

It is becoming very clear if we don t lose Fritz this year we most likely will after next so we are about to see how we do in a bowl game with an interim. All new territory to us

(12-09-2015 10:17 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  It is becoming very clear if we don t lose Fritz this year we most likely will after next so we are about to see how we do in a bowl game with an interim. All new territory to us

Don't you guys have contract issues with Fritz anyway? I thought he was holding up a renegotiated deal and buyout?

He got around a 150 K increase last year and is somewhere in 550-600 K range now. I have heard conflicting things about buyout. Some say it is 3 years salary which would put it at 1.5 to 1.8 mil. Others say that was contingent on our Pres and AD remaining. Our Pres left 4-5 months ago. So who knows

Instead of being emersed in recruiting he seems to be chasing jobs wherever right now

also didn't help back in '11 with it being the first bowl game for all the players and student staff members involved, their certainly was a lot of late nights and half ass practices leading up to the game lol

(12-09-2015 10:31 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  He got around a 150 K increase last year and is somewhere in 550-600 K range now. I have heard conflicting things about buyout. Some say it is 3 years salary which would put it at 1.5 to 1.8 mil. Others say that was contingent on our Pres and AD remaining. Our Pres left 4-5 months ago. So who knows

Instead of being emersed in recruiting he seems to be chasing jobs wherever right now

That's life in the SunBelt.

(12-09-2015 10:50 PM)Senatobia Wrote:  

(12-09-2015 10:31 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  He got around a 150 K increase last year and is somewhere in 550-600 K range now. I have heard conflicting things about buyout. Some say it is 3 years salary which would put it at 1.5 to 1.8 mil. Others say that was contingent on our Pres and AD remaining. Our Pres left 4-5 months ago. So who knows

Instead of being emersed in recruiting he seems to be chasing jobs wherever right now

That's life in the SunBelt.

Thats life everywhere except about 20 schools

(12-09-2015 10:12 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(12-09-2015 10:10 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-09-2015 10:07 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  When you guys lost your coach 4 years in a row was he gone b4 bowl game?

Did an interim coach bowl game every time?

Yes. Every time the head coach left, we replaced him with one of the assistants. This was even true back in 2011 when our moron AD decided to allow half the assistants to leave before the bowl, leaving us with 4 coaches for a game against Northern Illinois.

I look back on that and those 4 minor assistants and their high-school volunteers didn't do a half bad job in making it at least competitive.

Although I heard Freeze was still in contact with those coaches and helped with the game strategy and planning. He also showed up in Mobile to root on the team.

(12-09-2015 11:13 PM)GoBigRed26 Wrote:  Although I heard Freeze was still in contact with those coaches and helped with the game strategy and planning. He also showed up in Mobile to root on the team.

Yeah, I was waiting for the city bus outside the team hotel when he showed up. Our administration wouldn't let him in to see the team so he hung with us until they came out for the team bus.

Ole Miss didn't want him coaching either. Thing is it was a dead period with no recruiting.

Freeze scripted the early part of the game. You could tell when the script ran out.

Still chaps me that the ACC official said that wasn't a reviewable play. Line to gain is always reviewable.