Brett Romberg interview on 790 this mornings

[561Cane]

A couple of points Brett made.
1. BOT did meet yesterday.
2. He believes the buyout is $5MM
3. The university has an emergency fund and Brett feels this is an emergency(firing Golden) and the funds can be used to buyout Golden.
4. Paying coaches is a major issue. Stated Golden's ) $2.25MM salary, 6th highest paid in ACC, ranked 42nd in the Country. Stated you get what you pay for. Middle of the road salary. Stated Coordinator salaries and position coaches even worse.
5. BOT, major boosters, and University need to pay. Stop being cheap.
6. Mentioned Schiano, Chud, Dorsey as coaches he would like to see at UM.
7. This situation we are in is deadly to recruiting. Everyone will use it against UM. Mentioned Lamar Thomas using all the empty seats against UM. Takes a photo with him of an empty stadium to every recruit visit.
8. Alonzo Highsmith trying to raise money for a stadium. Former players love the school, football program and want the best.
9. Was asked if Golden will be the HC at week's end. He said yes.

That's all I can recall...

 

[McGahee2TheHouse]

The people that care the least about this program have the most power. Love that Highsmith is supposedly doing that, but isn't it the school's job to try getting us a stadium? Truly a sad situation.

 

[Era66]

R.I.P. UM Football. I would rather go the UAB way and kill the program than watch a slow painful death.

 

[Canefam]

Thanks for posting. That was a lower than expected buyout...

Era66 - too much drama. Go ***** slap yourself...

 

[We the Boss]

What moron gave this man a deal with a 5 mil buyout? That's a mil less than his average wins per year. The board members who inked that deal should be sued for breach of their fiduciary duties. Horrible.

 

[paksat]

phillip buchanon was on twitter about that contract long ago

something along the lines of "never win a coastal, get a contract extension, seems right"

 

[Cribby]

We have absolute idiots running the program

 

[Consigliere]

The people that care the least about this program have the most power. Love that Highsmith is supposedly doing that, but isn't it the school's job to try getting us a stadium? Truly a sad situation.

Talk to that master fund raiser and cack smoker Blake James. He is willing to "listen" if you come to him with a plan and funds for a stadium.

 

[Gatorhater]

What moron gave this man a deal with a 5 mil buyout? That's a mil less than his average wins per year. The board members who inked that deal should be sued for breach of their fiduciary duties. Horrible.

Same one caught on film taking money form crook.

 

[Sabetta]

 

[561Cane]

I would think the BOT has the final say on the contract.

What moron gave this man a deal with a 5 mil buyout? That's a mil less than his average wins per year. The board members who inked that deal should be sued for breach of their fiduciary duties. Horrible.

 

[McGahee2TheHouse]

The people that care the least about this program have the most power. Love that Highsmith is supposedly doing that, but isn't it the school's job to try getting us a stadium? Truly a sad situation.

Talk to that master fund raiser and cack smoker Blake James. He is willing to "listen" if you come to him with a plan and funds for a stadium.

There is not a more incompetent AD in the country

 

[Port Knox]

 

[The Franchise]

Seems like the former players have basically given up. They were spitting fire early in the year but seem to have been squelched by something. Maybe they were threatened with access being taken away.

Where's all the big mouth community activists like Uncle Luke? Why aren't they talking about how UM ran off Shannon but is keeping his white inferior?

 

[The Franchise]

The people that care the least about this program have the most power. Love that Highsmith is supposedly doing that, but isn't it the school's job to try getting us a stadium? Truly a sad situation.

Talk to that master fund raiser and cack smoker Blake James. He is willing to "listen" if you come to him with a plan and funds for a stadium.

There is not a more incompetent AD in the country

Incompetent and impotent. He's as feeble as an ad can possibly be.

 

[Ibis Wingz]

The people that care the least about this program have the most power. Love that Highsmith is supposedly doing that, but isn't it the school's job to try getting us a stadium? Truly a sad situation.

Talk to that master fund raiser and cack smoker Blake James. He is willing to "listen" if you come to him with a plan and funds for a stadium.

There is not a more incompetent AD in the country

That's because he is an AD in name only. It's pretty obvious that some of the duties traditionally delegated to ADs are not in Blake's authority and probably were not within the authority of Kirby Hocunt or the Shawn Ghosthort's authority (which might explain why they left CG after such a short time here).

Blake is essentially a fundraiser. He's actually pretty good at that task.

UM seems like an entity that is great at raising money, but not great at deploying it effectively. We raise money like champions and spend that money like retarded quahogs with brain damage.

 

[bbcane]

Lamar Thomas is dead to me.

 

[ssvir]

Lamar Thomas is dead to me.

This. This ****** was a ****** when he was in school, made a fool of himself in the U documentary, and now talks **** left and right about UM while he is at Louisville.

 

[bbcane]

2 words for Lamar (George Teague)

 

[Nickkcin]

Seems like the former players have basically given up. They were spitting fire early in the year but seem to have been squelched by something. Maybe they were threatened with access being taken away.

Where's all the big mouth community activists like Uncle Luke? Why aren't they talking about how UM ran off Shannon but is keeping his white inferior?

Speaking your mind for two years begging for change and the ad/school to do something about this problem, and it's just falling on deaf ears of people hiding their head in the sand pretending that there's no issue here. Just tired of trying.