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Yeah, weird timing, sounds like bullying of support staff, not players. Not that that should make it acceptable. I wonder who they can get at this late time.
 



It was mean comments about female staffers physical appearance that I think was the straw that broke the camels back. Stuff you get away with if you are 9-3 instead 3-9
 

NateDawgUM said:
Thought the timing was odd, but sounds like there were allegations of bullying?

Who bullies people at Stanford? That's SEC shit.
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SEC has cruel bullies. Stanford has creative bullies, who can sometimes be worse.
 

One thing I find interesting about this news: It sounds like Andrew Luck, GM of Stanford Football, made the decision to fire the coach.

This is more in line with what we're used to in pro sports, where the head coach reports to the GM.

Other recent GM hires like Nebraska made it clear that the head coach hired the GM.

I wonder which model will predominate. If the the GM-on-top model does what does it mean for athletic directors?
 




fmlizard said:
One thing I find interesting about this news: It sounds like Andrew Luck, GM of Stanford Football, made the decision to fire the coach.

This is more in line with what we're used to in pro sports, where the head coach reports to the GM.

Other recent GM hires like Nebraska made it clear that the head coach hired the GM.

I wonder which model will predominate. If the the GM-on-top model does what does it mean for athletic directors?
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I think the better model would be AD, Coach and then GM. The coach is hired by the AD and has become the equivalent of a CEO responsible for all aspects of the program. I can see it being the other way, but a college football coach today has too much riding on the program than to have another very active boss tinkering with the program. Having the coach direct the GM to handle the off field personnel at the direction of the coach seems like a good way to go.
 

WAGopher said:
I think the better model would be AD, Coach and then GM. The coach is hired by the AD and has become the equivalent of a CEO responsible for all aspects of the program. I can see it being the other way, but a college football coach today has too much riding on the program than to have another very active boss tinkering with the program. Having the coach direct the GM to handle the off field personnel at the direction of the coach seems like a good way to go.
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I agree, it's certainly the model that's most congruent with today's college football. It also adds less administrative layers.

Gerrit Chernoff has had the GM title with the Gophers since 2017. Before the latest round of college GM hires that mean being the salary cap manager for the program like it does in pro sports. Gerrit reports to PJ Fleck, who reports to Mark Coyle.

I don't think Gerrit's role includes the management of player pay like it does for the new GMs around America. Maybe it gets expanded to that, or maybe they hire someone else.

Maybe Andrew Luck has extra juice in his GM role because he's Andrew Luck, and the Stanford football team isn't very good at the moment.
 


Queue the “PJ Fleck to Stanford” rumors. It doesn’t seem to matter if there is any coaching opening Hamline to Ohio State. There always has to be at least one article listing Fleck as a candidate.
 



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