I have been coming to games for 40 years. Today was the first time in those 40 years that I have lost optimism for the future of this program. There are no moral victories. The team did not show improvement today. Winning is improvement. We lost. The sad part is rock bottom still lies ahead when in November our stadium will be occupied and subjected to the chants of fans of a cult.
Ash and his def coordinator must go. Ash at seasons end, JN as early as Monday. The schemes are a joke. Pressure non existent, receivers open all over the field, over 500 yards of offense surrendered week after week. Enough. Fire him, he is in over his head and has been for three years.
Ash also must go. This hayseed, this huckster, this dolt probably spends the better part of each game wondering why they never have to cut the grass at HP Stadium. This Midwestern Madoff is laughing his ass off on how he swindled us supposedly smart city folk out of ten million dollars. Its time to ship this flyover country fool back to Iowa to eat fried pork cutlets and watch corn grow.
Ship him out we must before he does any more damage to this program. If watching the program under Flood was like death by a thousand cuts, Ash is the coup de grace. A supposed defensive back guru whose DB's cannot cover. A tackling expert whose players cannot tackle. A game manager who cannot even manage time outs and a disciplinarian whose players are not even disciplined enough to stay onside on a 4th and one with the game on the line. Enough.
The money is not the issue. Fire him for cause. Use the credit card scandal as a pretext for cause. IT DOES NOT MATTER IF IT IS JUSTIFIABLE. MAKE HIM SUE US FOR THE MONEY. In three or four years as the case winds itself through the Middlesex County Courts, he will likely settle for less than he is owed. When you want out of a contract, breaching with the object of settling later for less is a viable strategy. It allows us to fire this fool without regard to paying him anything now and using his dollars to pay the next guy. When the time comes to resolve the case in three or for years we can use money from our full B1G share to pay him off. It is time to be ruthless.
Which brings me to Hobbs. I am not sure he is the person to execute such a strategy. Hobbs is a professor, a dean, an academic. He ran the athletics at a small Catholic University that did not even have a football program. He claims he was "blown away" by coach hayseed during his interview. What Hobbs in actuality was hoodwinked. He was bamboozled. He was swindled, conned and cucked. How would he know what qualities to look for in a football coach? After all, he never hired one. Sadly, we cannot afford to let him make this mistake again. He needs to go as well.
The ideal candidate is someone has has been an AD or Assistant AD at a big time P5 school. Someone who understands what it takes to compete and win at the highest level. Someone who can persuade the president that football drives the bus and persuade more large donors to get involved. Someone ruthless. Tom Jurich was an SOB but he out maneuvered UCONN to get his school into the ACC and made deals with sponsors that brought millions of dollars to UL. An SOB to be sure, but someone whose teams won in football and basketball.
We are not recruiting for the boy scouts. We need someone with a win at all costs mentality. I am sick of this attitude that we can lose but at least we run a clean program. Flood shattered that myth, as did Ash this year with the credit card scandal, and maybe Greg's kids were not all angels either.
The truth is football at this level is a dirty business. We can remain a doormat for years to come and pat ourselves on the back about how clean we are. I sat there in that empty stadium today and was sick to my stomach at the realization that Flood (who I wanted fired) is a much better coach on his worst day than Ash is on his best. Let that sink in. As bad as Flood was, and he was bad, he never went 1-11 or 2-10, which it appears Ash is about to do for the 2nd time in three years. Ash actually makes Flood look like a recruiting genius. Enough.
Enough. It is time to get serious about football. Hire an AD that understands big time football. Pay a coach that knows how to win. End this failure. Enough.
Ash and his def coordinator must go. Ash at seasons end, JN as early as Monday. The schemes are a joke. Pressure non existent, receivers open all over the field, over 500 yards of offense surrendered week after week. Enough. Fire him, he is in over his head and has been for three years.
Ash also must go. This hayseed, this huckster, this dolt probably spends the better part of each game wondering why they never have to cut the grass at HP Stadium. This Midwestern Madoff is laughing his ass off on how he swindled us supposedly smart city folk out of ten million dollars. Its time to ship this flyover country fool back to Iowa to eat fried pork cutlets and watch corn grow.
Ship him out we must before he does any more damage to this program. If watching the program under Flood was like death by a thousand cuts, Ash is the coup de grace. A supposed defensive back guru whose DB's cannot cover. A tackling expert whose players cannot tackle. A game manager who cannot even manage time outs and a disciplinarian whose players are not even disciplined enough to stay onside on a 4th and one with the game on the line. Enough.
The money is not the issue. Fire him for cause. Use the credit card scandal as a pretext for cause. IT DOES NOT MATTER IF IT IS JUSTIFIABLE. MAKE HIM SUE US FOR THE MONEY. In three or four years as the case winds itself through the Middlesex County Courts, he will likely settle for less than he is owed. When you want out of a contract, breaching with the object of settling later for less is a viable strategy. It allows us to fire this fool without regard to paying him anything now and using his dollars to pay the next guy. When the time comes to resolve the case in three or for years we can use money from our full B1G share to pay him off. It is time to be ruthless.
Which brings me to Hobbs. I am not sure he is the person to execute such a strategy. Hobbs is a professor, a dean, an academic. He ran the athletics at a small Catholic University that did not even have a football program. He claims he was "blown away" by coach hayseed during his interview. What Hobbs in actuality was hoodwinked. He was bamboozled. He was swindled, conned and cucked. How would he know what qualities to look for in a football coach? After all, he never hired one. Sadly, we cannot afford to let him make this mistake again. He needs to go as well.
The ideal candidate is someone has has been an AD or Assistant AD at a big time P5 school. Someone who understands what it takes to compete and win at the highest level. Someone who can persuade the president that football drives the bus and persuade more large donors to get involved. Someone ruthless. Tom Jurich was an SOB but he out maneuvered UCONN to get his school into the ACC and made deals with sponsors that brought millions of dollars to UL. An SOB to be sure, but someone whose teams won in football and basketball.
We are not recruiting for the boy scouts. We need someone with a win at all costs mentality. I am sick of this attitude that we can lose but at least we run a clean program. Flood shattered that myth, as did Ash this year with the credit card scandal, and maybe Greg's kids were not all angels either.
The truth is football at this level is a dirty business. We can remain a doormat for years to come and pat ourselves on the back about how clean we are. I sat there in that empty stadium today and was sick to my stomach at the realization that Flood (who I wanted fired) is a much better coach on his worst day than Ash is on his best. Let that sink in. As bad as Flood was, and he was bad, he never went 1-11 or 2-10, which it appears Ash is about to do for the 2nd time in three years. Ash actually makes Flood look like a recruiting genius. Enough.
Enough. It is time to get serious about football. Hire an AD that understands big time football. Pay a coach that knows how to win. End this failure. Enough.
