Coyle - Discuss

Football has treated water. Every other sport has regressed.

He needs to find the money to pay a competent coaching staff around PJ.

I recognize that’s a tall task in the midst of finding $22 mil to pay players but we aren’t going anywhere without both of those things.

The current UMN AD and all ADs are dealing with the greatest change over the shortest period of time since desegregation gained hold in the late 1960s into the 1970s...that is NIL and The Portal.

While desegregation involved "only" racial fairness and shifted football power to the South, NIL and the Portal involves "fairness" to the individual athletes in the face of insane amounts of money being generated in the last throws of the current network, cable, and now streaming platform model of income generation. And now private money too. None of this is sustainable and butts-in-the-seat can't cover the bill.

Coyle's first job should be to ensure Minnesota athletics is at least competitive and gets its fair piece of the B1G+ $$$ pie, not only for football but for the main revenue sports. He's earned mostly a B in that regard.

His next job should be to do everything the University of Minnesota can do to keep the B1G+ viable as one of probably 2 superconferences, again across all sports. I'd rather be in the show than top of the show, at least while it lasts. He appears to be managing that too pretty well.

While we as fans may not be happy, PJ's performance across the board does not compromise those 2 goals as of yet. That said, the AD should be watching how the HC addresses what appears to be problems in the boat. He is paid very well to do that. Whether it's a change in assistants, going to The Portal, or recruiting Florida harder who knows? We'll just have to see including next Saturday. Defecating the bed at home this weekend will not be good.

To the original point, just not sure the AD is necessarily the problem. And this is from a GHer who called him "The Snake" when he first arrived. Greatness assigned to him? Nope. Burned in effigy like Murray? Nope to that too. Just an opinion.

DarrenTheGreek said:

Football has treated water. Every other sport has regressed.

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Volleyball is showing signs of life

Granted ... I would guess Mark Coyle had almost zero to do with that hire, and would guess it was almost entirely Hugh McCutcheon (the former coach) who vetted Cook (the current coach).

All this said .... I honestly don't know what it is that an AD does, that is so important.

In all serious ... what do they do all day? Deal with fires? Deal with kids who did stupid stuff on the weekend? Glad hand wealthy boosters?

GopherGrit said:

All this said .... I honestly don't know what it is that an AD does, that is so important.

In all serious ... what do they do all day? Deal with fires? Deal with kids who did stupid stuff on the weekend? Glad hand wealthy boosters?

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Good question.

Screwed up hoops to a level that would normally get you the hook.

Part of an A.D.‘s job is to be the communicator on behalf of athletics at the university. Coyle can barely speak English. He’s probably better than any A.D. we’ve had in my lifetime which isn’t saying much. We have just a historic run of poor hires in that job. He will never hold PJ accountable for better results. PJ and his agent play him like a drum.

corcorangopher said:

What greatness can we attribute to Coyle? Can he deliver greatness for the University of Minnesota?

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No, he cannot.

Coyle is a poor man's Maturi.

FinnGopher said:

Coyle is a poor man's Maturi.

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Maturi was so popular that when the woke folks decided to name the facility after him, they didn’t tell anyone ahead of time because it would’ve gotten shot down.

corcorangopher said:

What greatness can we attribute to Coyle? Can he deliver greatness for the University of Minnesota?

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Well, he put the heating thingies under the turf at Huntington Bank. Right?

FinnGopher said:

Coyle is a poor man's Maturi.

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That't not fair. Macturi did exactly what he was sent here to do - dismantle the athletics department.

The best you can say about Coyle is thanks to Norwood Teague.

Q: What do you think of Coyle?
A: Well, he hasn't sexually harassed any employees, so, it was a good hire?

There's nothing to discuss he's not on or remotely approaching the hot seat