I don't follow Scheer. Curious, has he said why they don't get along. She was the AD who hired TJ at UNLV. And then was only at Mizzou a short time before going back to her alma mater.
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Maybe this is a PSU situation and they get to their 5th option and it was Ben McCollum all along?
It's incredibly problematic putting a coach outside the authority of the Athletics Department, but good for him for securing that as part of the deal. The power struggle will still exist.
He hasn't but it's always weird working for someone that didn't hire you in that world.
Should we be worried about Otz? This is eerily similar to the Penn State search. It took awhile and a Big 12 coach (Sitake) turned down the job.
I expect she's out completely, but it won't happen right away. General thought in Tucson is she's replaced by the start of football season. Keeping her around short term looks to be a saving face thing for her.
She also apparently just told Lloyd at the beginning of the season that her son was going to be a walk on. Not ask, see if there's a spot, test the waters; no. Here's my kid and he's on your team. I think that was the beginning of the power struggle if it indeed went down that way. But I have no insider info or anything. Just happy this distraction is over so the fans and team can focus on the FF.
It's pretty well known that most people do not like working for her. She's good, but she is an awful person to work for. That came out when she left UNLV and then Mizzou as well.
She cleaned up that accounting mess pretty quickly when she got to AZ, but she is not a pleasant person to work for.
And what sucks about situations like that (if true, of course) is that if she just would have approached it as 'my son would like to walk on, what do we need to do?', it's a completely different conversation that probably ends up with the same outcome.
Probably, this isn't Pee Wee, not everyone gets to play.
IMO TJ's statement's shut it down. I suspect Campbell really wanted the PSU job, but he was down the pecking order.
Based on the AZ AD, maybe talk we should worry about Jamie finding a nice pre-retirement job in Tucson. Tucson's a nice town.
If they get all the way down to Bennie McSuck…. Maybe they can call it Drake 3.0
Carolina just proves that if you're a blue blood, you don't fire your coach unless you're absolutely sure you've got your guy.
Love it to be McCollum, just to hear the EIU fans whining about losing a coach, they have the belief over east that no good coach would ever walk away from the squawks.
