Mona on WCCO tonight.

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I caught the last couple minutes of Dave Mona with Dave Thompson on WCCO this evening. Some points he made.

Lots of travel.

He was selling Minnesota.

Kill was only coach offered.

Many coaches were "flattered" but were happy in current job.

Budget was never an issue. They were willing spent around 2M to 2.3M. Had the OK to go as high as 3-4M if right candidate was interested. People were wowed by the amount of $ that was available to assistants.

At least five guys would have been standing in Kill's place today had they been offered.

Kill was like in kid talking to Bud Grant, Tony Dungy, and Bobby Bell on the phone today.

Kill has slept about 6 hours in the last three days.
 

That is some interesting information. When he said that coaches were flattered with the offer, did they ever talk money? It also sounds like the U is willing to spend whatever it takes to make this thing work.
 

Coach S said:
That is some interesting information. When he said that coaches were flattered with the offer, did they ever talk money? It also sounds like the U is willing to spend whatever it takes to make this thing work.
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He just said on par with the rest of the Big Ten.
 

How could anyone believe any of that at this point?
 

EG#9 said:
How could anyone believe any of that at this point?
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That is all personal opinion I guess. I think it is just as believable as unbelievable.
 


Mona is now spinning for Maturi...I don't buy any of it...54 days...$3-4 million and couldn't give the job away...yeah right.
 


GopherinPhilly said:
Mona is now spinning for Maturi...I don't buy any of it...54 days...$3-4 million and couldn't give the job away...yeah right.
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I'm sure there is some spinning going on, but Maturi wasn't going to give the job away to anyone. We all know that many of the names floated did not fit his criteria. Outside of the Tubby comment, I think Maturi filled his criteria to a T.
 

It's an embarrassment that Dave Mona was allowed to assist in this search in any way.
 





MaxyJR1 said:
I'm sure there is some spinning going on, but Maturi wasn't going to give the job away to anyone. We all know that many of the names floated did not fit his criteria. Outside of the Tubby comment, I think Maturi filled his criteria to a T.
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You mean the criteria he created a couple of days ago to try and prove that Kill was his guy all along even though he hadn't been contacted in the prior month or so leading up to this past weekend. I don't buy that the university was ever willing to shell out that kind of money. I would love to hear one coach that was contacted confirm that Maturi ever told them that the university was willing to spend that much.
 

3-4 million for a head coach?

Wasn't it rumored that Dan Mullen would come here for a 5 million a year deal, including all of his assistants?

Smells like BS
 



JoeDirt said:
3-4 million for a head coach?

Wasn't it rumored that Dan Mullen would come here for a 5 million a year deal, including all of his assistants?

Smells like BS
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It was also rumored that Petersen and Esdall wanted the job.
 

No employer is going to make an offer until there is mutual interest by both parties, a formal interview, and the employer becomes convinced they have found the right guy. Based on Mona's statement it sounds like they did get that far with anyone but Kill. Most PR guys wouldn't lie about something like that because they know it can be easily disproved.
 

I have been one of Kill's biggest supporters since before he was hired but I am not buying all of this, it sounds like spin to me. If we were really willing to go up to $4million on a coach, it must have been for Dungy or Harbaugh only. I can't belive that if we offerred Dan Mullen $3-$3.5 million that he wouldn't be the coach today.

I think they were willing to spend some money, but only for the unrealistic candidates. I also don't believe that Kill was last resort.
 



Bob_Loblaw said:
I have been one of Kill's biggest supporters since before he was hired but I am not buying all of this, it sounds like spin to me. If we were really willing to go up to $4million on a coach, it must have been for Dungy or Harbaugh only. I can't belive that if we offerred Dan Mullen $3-$3.5 million that he wouldn't be the coach today.

I think they were willing to spend some money, but only for the unrealistic candidates. I also don't believe that Kill was last resort.
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It won't be long before Dan Mullen will have his choice of job openings paying at least as much as what the U would have paid. He was NEVER going to come to Minnesota.
 

Go4Broke said:
It won't be long before Dan Mullen will have his choice of job openings paying at least as much as what the U would have paid. He was NEVER going to come to Minnesota.
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Well, my point was that if they offered between $3-$3.5 million he wouldn't have turned it down, and I can't see how that isn't the truth. He would have been one of the top 5 highest paid coaches in the country with that salary. A guy who has coached 1 season of SEC football (albeit really impressive) and could easily go 7-5 next season because the SEC is so tough wouldn't have turned down top 5 money. There just aren't enough schools willing to pay that.

So my larger point was that we must've really only been offerring the big money to people that we couldn't get (and we knew it).
 




GopherinPhilly said:
Mona is now spinning for Maturi...I don't buy any of it...54 days...$3-4 million and couldn't give the job away...yeah right.
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You mean it's hard to believe that coaches didn't want to leave their current jobs (where they are successful) to work for a lame-duck athletic director?
 


Art,
"Swilling the Kool-Aid" is one of the most enjoyable aspects of being a fan(it's not life or death...it's sports. Have some irrational fun). This is exactly why I think one of the following two things: 1. You are not really a fan of Gopher sports. 2. I feel very very sorry for you, because you will never enjoy life you bitter, old grump.
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
I can't belive that if we offerred Dan Mullen $3-$3.5 million that he wouldn't be the coach today. QUOTE]

That assumes an offer was made. I would be floored if Mullen was even considered by the U.
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Bob_Loblaw said:
I have been one of Kill's biggest supporters since before he was hired but I am not buying all of this, it sounds like spin to me. If we were really willing to go up to $4million on a coach, it must have been for Dungy or Harbaugh only. I can't belive that if we offerred Dan Mullen $3-$3.5 million that he wouldn't be the coach today.

I think they were willing to spend some money, but only for the unrealistic candidates. I also don't believe that Kill was last resort.
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Not if Mullen thought he could get the Miami job and neither party would wait and see if that was going to happen.
 

gopherbadgerman said:
It would be like PA doing the Vikes coaching search.
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No, it wouldn't.

Look, I've taken a few shots at Dave Mona on this board over the years, but you all realize he wasn't hired as a consultant because of his radio work, right?

Mona is a PR/businessman who built his own small personal company into a multi-million dollar international player in the PR industry. He has some expertise in the area of marketing, PR, fundraising, business, etc. He was brought in to try to help sell the potential coaches on Minnesota, manage expectations, drum up public support, drum up private support and money, etc. That's his entire background. It had little to nothing to due with the fact he is co-host of the Sports Huddle.

Now, say what you want, he may not have done a good job (I really don't know if he did or didn't), but simply saying why did they let a lowly "radio guy" do this is not telling the entire story. That wasn't the reason he was asked to help.

That said, it isn't rocket science. I'm guessing PA would probably be able to pick out a coach who could win games in Minnesota with the Vikings.
 


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