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band camp
I am a bit surprised they (unc) let him (MB) go with a game left on the schedule and unc is bowl eligible.
I guess they are trying to get in on a replacement early? Or, do they have their person already?
 
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Oracle21
Orange_Blue said:
Semi-related: FCS University of Northern Iowa's Mark Farley is retiring on Saturday saying, "The purity is gone." He goes one to say, "Maybe we've lost the sight of what the purpose of college athletics is, for me, that's giving Iowa farm kids the chance to go play college football and get a college degree."

In this new world, I think a lot of coaches are feeling this sentiment. I live in the same town as UNI and have a hard time seeing who would now want to coach at the FCS level (about $250-450k). If you are good enough to be an FCS HC, you are likely talented enough to be an OC/DC at a P4 school.

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I think football at that level is lucky it’s even funded. You could say that for most FCS sports. They don’t make enough revenue to be self sustaining. And I don’t think his argument about purity works at the FCS levels. Not many if any of those players are getting paid. FBS yes. High level college sports is the only sport with essentially free agency every year. Not even the pros have to deal with those headaches
 
#155      
the juiceman cometh
band camp said:
I am a bit surprised they (unc) let him (MB) go with a game left on the schedule and unc is bowl eligible.
I guess they are trying to get in on a replacement early? Or, do they have their person already?
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Yeah, kind of a strange way to treat the winningest head coach in program history. Maybe they tried to gently nudge him out the door as a "retirement" and he resisted, and this was the result.
 
#156      
SoCal Illini
What does North Carolina expect in football though? I thought Mack did a pretty good job his second time around there. His age probably has something to do with it. Who will they get?
 
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mhuml32
SoCal Illini said:
What does North Carolina expect in football though? I thought Mack did a pretty good job his second time around there. His age probably has something to do with it. Who will they get?
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They might be taking a calculated risk that if Purdue, Arkansas, Florida State, USC, Wisconsin, Florida, Miss. State, Baylor, Colorado, etc. all stand pat with their current head coach, then there is value being possibly the best P4 job this cycle instead of their being a deluge of openings next year.
 
#159      
RJK01
Former Illini Antonio James was let go as SIU's DC.
 
#160      
EyeoftheIllini
SoCal Illini said:
What does North Carolina expect in football though? I thought Mack did a pretty good job his second time around there. His age probably has something to do with it. Who will they get?
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He definitely brought them back from the train wreck of last couple years of the Fedora era. I think his age factored into it as did only having a winning conference record in 2 of his 6 years.

As to expectations, they do have a strong history in football. They don’t have the 5 national championships that Illini have, But despite playing 12 fewer seasons, NC has more wins all-time than Illini and are more than 120 games over .500, while Illini are barely over .500. Since the 1990 season, NC has had 24 winning seasons (assuming they stay over .500 this season), won 221 games and had 4 seasons they won at least 10 games. In the same span, Illini have had 12 winning seasons, won 164 games and had 1 season with 10 or more wins (though they won 10 games in 1989).
 
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BZuppke
I was looking at one of these coaching rankings/salary lists and see Brett is paid about $6.5 million which is #7 in the B1G. What surprised me was ranking Jedd Fisch higher (not money wise) than Brett.
 
#164      
1m4tr
Art Smith I’ve heard is potentially interested in UNC. He graduated there I believe.
 
#167      
7 Year Illini
the juiceman cometh said:
I mean, that's kind of the key. These jobs pay a ton of money. The fact that UNI can afford to pay its football coach $400k says a lot.

And let's be honest here. A college football coach is a manager. Managers of other businesses constantly deal with employees leaving because they can get more elsewhere. Managers of other businesses can't just yell at employees and expect they'll put up with it because they don't have a choice. And most of those managers don't make anywhere close to $400k.

Yes, the job is harder now. But maybe that's because it was too easy before.
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way too easy. Coaches had all the money and the power. Players had none. Coaches made hundreds of thousands, then millions, then multi-millions. Players had no power. TV changed how the system worked. Coaches got MORE money. Players got none.

Suddenly, the players aren't taken advantage of and some coaches whine like babies. The "purity" is gone. NO, the taking advantage of other people to benefit YOU has gone.

Good riddance to old college football.
 
#168      
Illini in Italy
That's one perspective . . .

Think Episode 9 GIF by NBC
 
#169      
OrangeBlue98
Not really “coaching” but Andrew Luck has accepted a wide-ranging role at Stanford as the football program’s general manager.

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Stanford brings ex-star QB Andrew Luck 'home' as new GM

Former Stanford star Andrew Luck is returning to the Cardinal to become the football program's general manager, he told ESPN in a phone interview.
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#170      
TheDrinkinLincoln
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