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He has to deal with hundreds of emails from wack-jobs every time another internet rumor is started. Sounds like a terrible job.
 

He's paid substantial money to deal with so called "wack jobs", we aren't talking about Jeremy Foley here.
 



Well make the announcement then he will just have to deal with people pissed off at the decision rather than rumors about the decision.
 


What is so hard about hiring a good coach? Hell it seems he goes out of his way to hire the 'wrong guy'.
 

charlesbenjamin7 said:
What is so hard about hiring a good coach? Hell it seems he goes out of his way to hire the 'wrong guy'.
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i think the administration outthinks themselves. they're so utterly convinced of their own intellectual superiority their lenses get fogged from the hubris.
 

The 12th Man said:
He has to deal with hundreds of emails from wack-jobs every time another internet rumor is started. Sounds like a terrible job.
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The revised contract extends Maturi's service by two years and increases his salary to $345,000

nuff said
 




The 12th Man said:
He has to deal with hundreds of emails from wack-jobs every time another internet rumor is started. Sounds like a terrible job.
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So, you completely fornicate the first Football coaching hire you make -- after botching the firing of both the basketball coach and then the football coach. You handle the search with ineptitude and ignorance -- often getting quoted in the press with statements that actively hurt your program, and then, when for some inexplicable reason you are allowed to do the hiring again, you are as ill-prepared and clueless in the press as the first time -- indicating you have learned nothing -- and this results in your sympathy?

Maturi is lucky he wasn't fired before Brewster was (and should have been). He's cost the taxpayers of Minnesota millions. Least he could do is answer a few e-mails from the whack jobs. Course, that's about the most he can do, too.
 

Tubby Smith Hire

I have seen several posts indicating Maturi never said he would deliver a "Tubby Smith" hire. For the record, following is clipped from Joel Maturi Press Conference 10-17-10 on GopherSports.com.


http://www.gophersports.com/ViewArt...D=8400&ATCLID=205013758&SPID=3280&SPSID=38605


Q. You'd mentioned that you were going to start the national search immediately. What can and can't you do in the next five to seven weeks considering that most colleges are still playing their football games for another five to seven weeks?

JOEL MATURI: Well, again, I've been in the business a long time, and you continue to learn. I never dreamt as an athletics director that I would ever dismiss coaches during the course of the year. I did make that decision with Dan Munson, and you know what, I think that the conclusion of who we hired came out pretty well.

I've asked Tubby Smith if he wanted to coach football, but he's declined, but we're out here to find a Tubby Smith. We're out here to find somebody that people can recognize, people have confidence in, and people are going to bring instant credibility and notoriety to the football program.
 

I told you people about prexy b and maturi and you just mobbed and bashed me. Now you are getting just what you asked for.

By the way, that former TT coach you are all falling all over is really a wacked out of his skull living in fantasy land dangerously crazy pirate boy. He is just a step away from walking the plank into some seriously strange and ill circumstances. Stay away from that clown.

If it is Kill, either support him or buzz off. Who cares what you do? You people bashed the M-Club for bashing maturi and prexy b (the administration). Well, you who are not taking this hire so well, were part of the problem all along.

Either re-up on your tickets or go away. You have choices: exercise them,.
 

Gopher in Texas said:
I have seen several posts indicating Maturi never said he would deliver a "Tubby Smith" hire. For the record, following is clipped from Joel Maturi Press Conference 10-17-10 on GopherSports.com.


http://www.gophersports.com/ViewArt...D=8400&ATCLID=205013758&SPID=3280&SPSID=38605


Q. You'd mentioned that you were going to start the national search immediately. What can and can't you do in the next five to seven weeks considering that most colleges are still playing their football games for another five to seven weeks?

JOEL MATURI: Well, again, I've been in the business a long time, and you continue to learn. I never dreamt as an athletics director that I would ever dismiss coaches during the course of the year. I did make that decision with Dan Munson, and you know what, I think that the conclusion of who we hired came out pretty well.

I've asked Tubby Smith if he wanted to coach football, but he's declined, but we're out here to find a Tubby Smith. We're out here to find somebody that people can recognize, people have confidence in, and people are going to bring instant credibility and notoriety to the football program.
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If you look at this hire from the stand point of the goals stated in the last paragraph, then this hire indeed falls short. WAY short.

Kill is considered a good coach by football people. That's an insider's perspective. But there aren't many casual football folks who are going to look at him and be instantly energized, have tons of confidence in him or feel he brings instant credibility or notoriety to anything.

Having said that, he has a track record of success and is almost certainly an upgrade from Brewster. In this case, that's not saying much. But like Brewster, he deserves the chance to put his stamp on things before folks jump to any conclusions.
 



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