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Pretty standard...Pete Thamel from SI believes the same:

Minnesota
Look for new athletic director Mark Coyle to execute the same game plan he did in his last year at Syracuse. He'll keep an extremely low profile, quietly observe the football program and then make a change at the end of the year. Tracy Claeys has a three-year contract, but his buyout is just $500,000. It's hard to envision him as a long-term answer, but he'll have a chance to prove himself with a soft 2016 schedule. The bottom line here, however, is that the entire industry expects this job to open and it would be stunning if it didn't. New athletic directors aren't brought in to keep the status quo, and Claeys's contact affirms the perception he's a placeholder.

http://www.campusrush.com/college-football-coaches-hot-seat-texas-lsu-1992073509.html
 

Maximus said:
Pretty standard...Pete Thamel from SI believes the same:

Minnesota
Look for new athletic director Mark Coyle to execute the same game plan he did in his last year at Syracuse. He'll keep an extremely low profile, quietly observe the football program and then make a change at the end of the year. Tracy Claeys has a three-year contract, but his buyout is just $500,000. It's hard to envision him as a long-term answer, but he'll have a chance to prove himself with a soft 2016 schedule. The bottom line here, however, is that the entire industry expects this job to open and it would be stunning if it didn't. New athletic directors aren't brought in to keep the status quo, and Claeys's contact affirms the perception he's a placeholder.

http://www.campusrush.com/college-football-coaches-hot-seat-texas-lsu-1992073509.html
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Then again, a new AD usually isn't brought in because the former one was a total sleaze bag with a MEGA tongue, it's because the department/programs were in total meltdown mode (an argument could be made here on this but it wasn't what drove this situation).

I think Claeys has a chance to keep the job depending on results. I also believe if Coyle decides to pull the trigger, we might actually have a plan to do so instead of the complete fiasco situations we went through the last two times we hired a football coach (I refer not to who was hired -- at least in the second case -- but how the hiring was handled or more accurately mishandled with Tim Brewster and Jerry Kill).
 

This has been discussed in other threads, and I'm in the minority. He's not a typical "new" coach. He was hired in part due to uncertainty about the AD, signed to a short contract with a low buyout -- and now has a new AD looking at him. We have the easiest schedule on paper that we'll ever have and the most talent we've had in the Kill/Claeys era (according to Kill and Claeys), including a three-year starter at quarterback.

I think he's fine with eight wins and out with six wins. Seven, I'm not sure -- it would probably depend on how we got there. So that's probably a warm chair. But I know most people don't agree. Blast away.
 

Kind of a strange topic on opening day, but for what it's worth, Coyle got an A (SI), B+ (USA Today), A- (Bleacher) and A+ (Athlon) for his football hire at Syracuse.
 


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