Who the heck is Mike Shula and why would James want more planes flying around?
So Paul thinks he needs to pretend he tried to get other people but only Butch would take the job? That make sense, if a fire HC nobody remembers, turns it down, it is good evidence no one else will take it. Otherwise, I have a nephew who played at Columbus too. Maybe he can turn it down -- whatever helps get Butch in here.
You're missing the mark a bit on this process. 1.) Fly banners with DiMare in mind,
not Blake the Fake 2.) At this juncture only one banner shall be applicable:
MAKE MIAMI GREAT AGAIN -- BUTCH DAVIS 2015
This specific Banner keeps the pressure on the BoT and these money boosters that fans want to return Miami to its legacy of Greatness. Nothing LESS!
Nobody No media can fault fans for wanting such.
This banner may very well serve to keep away the usual suspects/coaches that would want to come to UM, but want another long crack to turn it around and re-build it long term. The banner also makes it clear that the return to greatness is associated with Butch Davis.
Finally, these knuckle head millionaires don't know how to pick a coach as they are
NOT Directors of Athletics, but merely
acting as de facto ADs.
When they needed the male basketball coach,
Frank Martin was the local well known successful coach that wanted to come to the U. They wanted him, and by then they hurried and hired an AD to consider Coach Martin. Another accomplished coach sent in his Wikipedia page, and they junked Coach Martin, and went with the guy with wiki page.
They don't even know how to pick an AD when they hired what turned out to be a dude that never wanted to be here, when the media coined him as the "invisible AD" Shawn Eichorst. He wanted nothing to do with Miami except to use the U as a launching pad to boost his resume and get the AD he coveted.
Even still, this time they are hiring a Football coach with no AD, and thus the crazy process with all of the disinformation, and leaks of going after everyone from James Franklin, Charlie Strong, Chip Kelly, Mike Shula. As a matter of fact, all of these 4 coaches have had to say that they are fine where they are in the middle of a season, with none blowing Miami off, yet.
Swing
WILD for the fence for
whatever big name -- Mike SHULA royalty, big name Chip Kelly, Big name Charlie Strong (big name as far as they are concerned), big name NFL Coach Chuck Pagano, NFL Bill O'Brien --
may take you up on a convo to coach Miami and see what idea you could steal from them, even if they won't accept your overtures.
Fact is that these UM BoT & Admin have effed 3 coach hires, 2 coaches' extensions, and 2 ADs hires in an extended period of 15 years! Can you trust them not to ***** this up? ...unless you hold their feet to the fire. And you must hold their feet right; if not banners, Al Golden coaches the team through 2015
.
Not only did UM BoT ***** up in the hire, and extension of Al Golden, but they ***** up
in not firing him in 2014 & 2103 after disastrous finishes, and 2012 when Al was flirting with Penn State and insubordinated his boss by not returning that Troll's calls of his whereabouts.
The thing is that one of those so called big name coaches, who according to them may not have ordinarily considered coaching at the U, may just say yes.
THAT's why the banners need to keep flying. There's no guarantee that all this Butch-as-next-coach leak isn't for fans' appeasement sake. Or maybe for real is: Butch is there anyway since they expect that the big names will all turn UM down, then they'd turn to Butch. If they do that, I'd hope Butch sticks it to them for $5,OOO,OOO.
