Justin Fuente fired at Va Tech

[423Hurricane]

One of the best Coach firings that I’m actually happy about...

Fuente was a complete POS, he treated his players like sh*t & was total hypocrite.

He deserved to get sh*tcanned, good for VA Tech.

After the endorsement by Beamer and the honeymoon was over in about year 2, most of their fans became very disgruntled with Fuente. Arrogant ***** was the description I heard most often.

 

[Hold My Beer]

Oxford has some serious a$$, best tailgating experience anywhere but mannnn, over S. FL/Miami girls?!?!??!

Some folks prefer that Wonder Bread, whatcha gonna do?

 

[LuCane]

Very good coach, mediocre recruiter.
He will end up as OC at a big time program.

Do you mean Alabama? Because I think he's a superior OC to O'Brien.

 

[caneman73]

Fuentes buyout 10M; if VT had waited until 12/15 it would have went down to 7.5M.....

 

[F-MarioCristobal]

27-34 was Al Folden at Temple...

Fvck i failed that test.

 

[Hurricane4lyfe]

The Baylor job is what did it if you watched Virginia tech press conference when they asked him that question he smiled lmao

 

[felix]

But yet let’s hold on to Manny for two more weeks. Does absolutely nothing to hold onto to that bozo

Until a new AD is hired, nothing is going to happen. Everyone, including Manny knows he's gone, it's just a matter of time.

 

[jsy]

The obvious candidate would be Shane Beamer, but the likes of Freeze & Chadwell would be good candidates for that gig, too.

I pray they don’t get freeze
That would be worse case for us
We need them to get another corch

 

[JD08]

Fuentes buyout 10M; if VT had waited until 12/15 it would have went down to 7.5M.....

They supposedly split the difference at 8.7.

 

[Canedude08]

Fuente never got buy in from his locker room for whatever reason and didn’t recruit well enough to overcome it.

That is the danger of hiring a guy whose success was built on another coach’s foundations.

I still think Herman has the juice in the right place. I always throw out first year. He won 10 his second year at UT and 7-3 in a covid shortened playing almost exclusively conference teams. In a full season, that would have been 9-3 and he usually wins his bowl games. His losses were close. So that is 9-4 or 10-3 in his third year at Texas’ country club. Why do people consider that a failure?

Texas has a zillion dollars and can’t lure a big name coach. That tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about the **** show Austin is running.

Actually, Fuente's success at Memphis was his and his alone. Keep in Mind, Memphis before Fuente was BAD. I mean really, really bad. They had bottomed out under Larry Porter.

When you have the KIND of losses Herman had at Texas, that's a problem. It wasn't that he had losses, he had losses to teams that Texas should be able to outtalent quite easily. You can still see that the culture Herman was building was awful, and it has carried over. Never mind the rumors coming out of Austin about his nighttime activities. I don't think Herman was ready for the big time like that and it showed.

 

[AUcane]

They supposedly split the difference at 8.7.

Makes sense. They obviously worked out a deal considering they gave him the option of staying on board.

 

[MedleyCane]

Do you mean Alabama? Because I think he's a superior OC to O'Brien.

Me too and that is a program where he won't have to worry about recruiting.

 

[LuCane]

Semi-serious question: what's the financial move on these buyouts? Are they paid over time? Is it a lump sum? If lump sum, does a financial consulting business exist on how to park that money optimally to avoid massive income taxes? With the amount of coaches who get fired every week, this seems like a really fun business.

 

[Hold My Beer]

Never mind the rumors coming out of Austin about his nighttime activities. I don't think Herman was ready for the big time like that and it showed.

Gee, than Miami-Dade should be no problem at all

 

[Canes Device]

In general teams fire coaches mid season for internal problems, not results on the field.

USC mismanaged their situation with Helton, there's no reason to go into the season with a coach that you're gonna fire after two games. Washington coach had off the field problems, the same same with Coach O at LSU.

Fuentes has been done with VT for awhile, hit them with the "pay me and I will be on my way, please and thank you"

 

[nobeastofburden]

Semi-serious question: what's the financial move on these buyouts? Are they paid over time? Is it a lump sum? If lump sum, does a financial consulting business exist on how to park that money optimally to avoid massive income taxes? With the amount of coaches who get fired every week, this seems like a really fun business.

 

[MedleyCane]

You'd think they would shoot higher than that but whatever. As others have posted, Hugh Freeze seems like a perfect fit there but if they don't pursue him, better for us.

Dykes is about as high as VT could get and he's a solid coach.
Again, question would be recruiting.

 

[Hardcore Cane]

Surely Manny gets fired if loses to an intern? Right?




Right?

Manny lost to FIU

Manny got shutout by LA Tech

 

[Madabs]

Packer was saying that there's been Coker, Shannon, Golden, Richt, and Diaz. Packer said the same revolving door has been going on at Tenn, USC, Texas, and recently at FSU. But he also said he understands that fans want winners. Durham seemed a little more upset about Manny most likely being fired but his examples were all based on the younger players. There was no mention of all the transfers, terrible practices, regression of players, and losing to mediocre teams.

 

[CaneSince4Ever]

Semi-serious question: what's the financial move on these buyouts? Are they paid over time? Is it a lump sum? If lump sum, does a financial consulting business exist on how to park that money optimally to avoid massive income taxes? With the amount of coaches who get fired every week, this seems like a really fun business.

As far as I know they're paid in installments. What I want to know is what do these benefactors get out of the whole deal, can't imagine that they like football that much to fork over millions just cuz.