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Wow. Saban DOES make his coaches feel guilty as **** for wanting to leave just the way he does to his recruits. But my god Mac you idiot you should have had this inked before anything could be reversed
Mac inks 4-year endorsement deal with Betty Crocker. Free butter for life.
Found this on 247 and this is Goldkamp and Stampini talking about the staff:
Posted this earlier. It's a fluid situation. Would love to be able to tell you this or that is definitely happening, but we're not there at that point. Still think Florida has a decent chance at landing Locksley, but from what I've been told, he wants to call plays. If the right opportunity -- and I don't think he'd jump at just any chance to call plays -- opens up or a path to doing that in the near future opens up, that may affect things.
He'd get a co-OC title at Florida, I believe. But Nussmeier would still be in charge.
I'll add that how Alabama's staff shakes out with the possibilities of Napier and Cristobal leaving could also affect Locksley.
Then Stampini comes in with this nugget:
To add, I was told a couple weeks ago that more staff changes seemed unlikely (AKA: Doubtful anyone gets fired). The move from RB to LB coach for Skipper has been mentioned a handful of times as well.
So like others have said it doesn't look like we'll be firing anyone. If this holds to be true Mac's fate is sealed along with the programs!
If this happens I hope the majority of GatorNation gives Mac/UF the finger next fall and stays home! No sense in supporting a university that has become complacent with mediocrity!Nauseating
This is my plan. After being a Gator Booster for 20 + years unless I see major changes to the offensive staff I am not renewing my season tickets.If this happens I hope the majority of GatorNation gives Mac/UF the finger next fall and stays home! No sense in supporting a university that has become complacent with mediocrity!
It is very possible that Saban recognizes the value of Locksley and with Kiffin leaving and Sark not doing a great job in the NC game... Saban could be negotiating against us to put Locksley in a direct position on his staff. Even if we offered to pay high $$ Bama could match. Also... from Locksley's perspective... being able to stay in the same coaching tree and work with the top talent in the country to build your resume might be a hard thing to pass up... especially if he is getting a co-OC position at Bama.
Not everything is Mac's fault. This may or may not be, but we have to wait until it plays out to know for sure.
Bottom line: I'm not going to jump to conclusions and drive myself crazy trying to guess or understanding something when I have no knowledge of the actual conversations or detail of the situation. Everything we say is a pure guess based on very limited information. I can't blame anybody when I don't know what happened.
I think deep down we all had a real fear that this was the case. Don't know why anyone would be surprised. It's consistent with what we've seen thus far. If there's one thing we know about Mac, its that no matter how many times something doesn't work, he'll just keep doing it.
I get it; however, the issue is that Mac's lack of urgency when we are down 1-2 recruiters heading out of the dead period is worrying. Even if Locks fell through, why didn't Mac have other names ready to go? What is he waiting for?
This all falls on Mac whether you want to admit it or not. Had he compiled a better staff to begin with, none of this would be an issue. Now we are trying to play catch up in recruiting and we don't even have the full staff allotment out there doing it.
In the business world, this lack of urgency and complacency with the mediocre results would get you fired.
I get your point and I agree on the staff issue. There may be reasons he is waiting... I don't know what he is waiting for, but I'm hoping it is a good reason... I'm not confident that it will be or that we will ever know...
That's all we can do is wait.
I just think it's poor judgement do wait while we need recruits.
Thanks 65. This may get a little long, so I'll apologize beforehand. I'll share that my initial encouragement regarding Mac, what he has accomplished, and what he is doing to re-build parts of the program has diminished. I've mentioned before that a colleague at work who is a Bama alum and letterman congratulated me when Mac was hired, saying that there was some feeling among the Tide faithful that Mac was liked as an OC and many thought he might be the heir-apparent to Saban. Since that time, that conversation has not been positively revisited and no doubt the two beat-downs in the SECCG at the hands of Bama has been influential. Even though I believe we competed some better this year (compared to last) despite roster limitations, we are not close to being able to compete with the top team in the SEC at this time and I believe that goes beyond the roster to include some of the coaching that is there to see.I would be curious as to what your opinion of him might be? You seem to be a pretty accurate "reader" of people. I have my own thoughts about his coaching "ceiling" but I doubt they are as well founded on reality as yours.
It is frustrating for sure. We need recruits and we need people who can go out and recruit them.
We have the Recruiting Coordinator out on the road, doing actual recruiting. If I remember correctly, he's slated to visit more prospects today than anybody else on staff. Let's hope he's a Recruiting Closer.
If/when we add a new coach to the lineup, it probably would take at least a couple of days before he's ready to hit the road and sell the Gator story to recruits. Plus I assume that it would be very bad form, or perhaps verbotten, for him to recruit for the Gators players he'd tried to recruit at [whereever he came from]. So a brand-brand-new coach would be a little handicapped in the beginning.
(Of course, this would be less of an issue, if any new coach/es were announced a week or more ago. Only two college teams were still playing, so 98% of all college coaches were in potentially in play.)