It's true.....it's not so much the Pata Murder...it was more of the Hatred for Butch by several high ranking BOT members...even though Butch had support from several others. Stu Miller was, and still is a friend of Butch's...his Dad Leonard basically hired Butch in 95.....Paul DiMare was also a close friend of Butchs, and still is. In the end there was to much push back from the Butch Haters portion of the BOT.....
Mario was gonna be the oc.
The second part about talking before CMR was hired is 100% true. I’ve never been told about him coming here after Larry.
he wasn't worth much post richt either. post Coker, it would've been ideal
wasn't he already named Oregons coach then or maybe it was all the same timeline of events (tags leaves, richt retires, Mario becomes HC, Manny becomes HC)
Mario would def bring him around but id rather have more recent coaches and recruiters around (FIU was basically a retirement tour).
I'm talking bout after Coker. Coincidentally that was also the plan after alfraud.
ah gotcha. that makes more sense. it kinda worked out though for Mario. he got the FIU gig soon after and got his start.
even w Mario, well always hear about how butch at 105 is an asset lol.
Only two problems with cmr was he was sick #1 & possibly as a result he brought on lil johnny. Couldn't expect a man to fire his own son.
yeah agreed on both but he still good in moving the program along and forced us to pour more resources into the program. I dont look at the richt run as a failure. now, Manny, randy, al absolutely failures (tho I wouldn't have hired Manny or randy to be HCs)
Pagano was offered the UM HC job before Richt, and politely turned it down.
Total BS.......
Agree 100% right tenure was a huge success and without it we're nowhere near where we are. He is what re-awakened our program to what it's supposed to be.
