Lane is a savage

[Garnacho]

I would have to see the contract where it says if he takes another job he’s not allowed to stay. Regardless, asking to stay is not a breach of that contract if that’s how it is written. Parties mutually amend agreements - i do it all the time - and my agreements typically say nothing can be changed unless in writing and signed by the parties. He can ask. There’s no breach from the little I can see.

No, but taking another job and staying could be argued as one. And I’m of the opinion that he accepted the LSU job well before today

 

[Angry Ibis]

Mario isnt going anywhere by choice and everyone knows it. Every school that has/had an opening aside from probably LSU would take Mario tomorrow, including PSU and UF. Your hatred for the dude is clouding your judgment.

No. I don't hate Mario. I hate that he wasted 2 years, then our best offense ever in his 3rd year, then took 2 losses to get his head out of his *** in year 4.

 

[Angry Ibis]

Where did I say Ole Miss failures are Kiffins??? I don't and didn't want him here because of his character and because he's a **** mercenary. We would be looking for a coach right this second. Would that be a better situation??

We are speculating. He has been said on this board to have wanted the Miami job. We don't know what he would with success here. What we do know is Ole Miss was a stepping stone job, because it was a low level P4 school before the mercenary built it to a playoff team in his 6 years there.

 

[RVACane]

Mario would get any opening he wanted right now

No he wouldn’t. We’re about to be going into season 5 and we still haven’t made the ACCCG once under Mario including a year with Cam Ward.

He’s raised the floor of the program though and we are no longer a joke and that was needed first and foremost. He also tries and works hard and the last year of talent evals has been great so there’s positives.

 

[Ryanmilli]

Mario isn’t in demand for the top jobs. He’s traditionally done less with more.

He was the head coach at Oregon, which offered him $10 mil/year to stay.

 

[tdjones34]

No he wouldn’t. We’re about to be going into season 5 and we still haven’t made the ACCCG once under Mario including a year with Cam Ward.

He’s raised the floor of the program though and we are no longer a joke and that was needed first and foremost. He also tries and works hard and the last year of talent evals has been great so there’s positives.

what opening now wouldn't pay him 10 million a year
UF would have

franklin got almost 8

 

[zx7oppa]

Nice to see Louisiana police / public money at work while people go hungry

 

[Angry Ibis]

He was the head coach at Oregon, which offered him $10 mil/year to stay.

Then rescinded the offer when he was found to ... "be puling a Kiffin" ... and lying to Phil, not once, but twice...

 

[RVACane]

No. I don't hate Mario. I hate that he wasted 2 years, then our best offense ever in his 3rd year, then took 2 losses to get his head out of his *** in year 4.

A lot of these guys can’t separate their fanhood and team loyalty and look at it clinically. It usually ends up with attacks and personal insults. I get where they are coming from. As a kid I’d tell myself what I wanted to hear and wanted to believe what was true and wouldn’t listen to anyone who said differently until I got tired of the same results and disappointments.

 

[RVACane]

The Lil monkey thing is kinda ***.

There’s a monkey in the middle of all this???

 

[Ryanmilli]

No. I don't hate Mario. I hate that he wasted 2 years, then our best offense ever in his 3rd year, then took 2 losses to get his head out of his *** in year 4.

Fair enough. Certainly he’s not above criticism. But he has done a lot of good using a sustainable model and the program is by far in the best shape it’s been since before/around the time our current players were born.

 

[Ryanmilli]

Then rescinded the offer when he was found to ... "be puling a Kiffin" ... and lying to Phil, not once, but twice...

In other words, when they knew he was gone. You don’t offer that to a guy you want to leave.

 

[RVACane]

No, but taking another job and staying could be argued as one. And I’m of the opinion that he accepted the LSU job well before today

Bro, I’m being sincere here. He’s allowed to accept another job and leave, guaranteed. That’s why there’s a buyout clause in his contract. There’s not likely to be a “default” / breach with that. I’d need to see it though. He’s a shady dude though. He should have just left graciously when they turned him down. It’s clear he’s an ******* because he’s burned the bridge at like every job he’s been at but these guys know what they’re hiring at this point. This is the price when it ends.

 

[Angry Ibis]

A lot of these guys can’t separate their fanhood and team loyalty and look at it clinically. It usually ends up with attacks and personal insults. I get where they are coming from. As a kid I’d tell myself what I wanted to hear and wanted to believe what was true and wouldn’t listen to anyone who said differently until I got tired of the same results and disappointments.

Absolutely. I wore different versions of the orange and green glasses up to and including Mario's first year, but then coaching not to lose at A&M, getting blasted at home 4 times that season -- when all we heard was we were a competent coach from winning the ACC and then every excuse flowed out... Nah -- we knew everything we needed to know when he coached to keep it close that A&M game and it is the same mindset that has us on the outside looking in on the playoffs this year.

Maybe that changed after SMU, but it is long overdue and after massive amounts of people being dead wrong, yet obnoxious about Mario.

 

[Angry Ibis]

There’s a monkey in the middle of all this???

 

[gogeta4]

Sure he didn’t quit. And sure neither is a victim. But it was in his contract that if he left he would not finish. Lane agreed to that. I have issue with the semantics of “offered to stay”. The way he dragged this out suggests to me that he was leveraging himself so he could stay if he wanted to. And if he actually did give his coaches an ultimatum then that sounds more like a threat than an “offered” to stay.

I truly thought he didn’t know what he wanted to do but I now feel he has known for awhile that he was going to LSU. Knowing that he wouldn’t be able to finish the season per his contract, he dragged it out for leverage to stay if they made the playoffs.

It was always lsu i think...the uf stuff was leverage moves as well cause i dont think he ever wanted that one.

I think Lsu would always be ago because his kids would approve of it with his daughter dating the lsu lb kid etc.

 

[RVACane]

 

[NC_Canes_11]

LSU will be in Ole Miss's shoes down the line with Lane.

I keep seeing people say this, but it’s not true. It’s just cope. You don’t leave LSU unless you’re going to the NFL or you’re about to get fired. Would Lane go try the NFL again? Maybe. But that’s the game. Leaving for the NFL isn’t the same as voluntarily leaving for another college job.

Will he eventually get fired? It’s almost a guarantee. No coach under the age of 60 at a top 10 legit title contending school like LSU, makes it out alive. 3 of their last 4 coaches all won titles and the only one who didn’t get fired (Saban) left for the NFL.

 

[Juanka]

No he wouldn’t. We’re about to be going into season 5 and we still haven’t made the ACCCG once under Mario including a year with Cam Ward.

He’s raised the floor of the program though and we are no longer a joke and that was needed first and foremost. He also tries and works hard and the last year of talent evals has been great so there’s positives.

Fair take.

I don't think Mario could land any job he wanted, but teams like Auburn, Penn State, UF, and Arkansas would take him in a heartbeat right now.

 

[RVACane]

Yes 100%. Not a big deal. The degree to which I’m disagreeing with you is so **** small it’s not even worth typing out. Just my opinion, but accepting another job and staying to coach without telling them

Right, but it’s sounding like he accepted another job and didn’t leave. I don’t see any signs of him “asking to stay” or him “getting turned down.” It’s looking like he accepted employment with LSU and then didn’t leave Ole Miss.

He accepted the LSU job and went and told Ole Miss. He offered or asked to stay on through the playoff conclusion to coach the team which is respectable because he was trying to keep them in the same situation for the remainder of the year. They said no. He did nothing wrong and neither did they here up to this point. After this it was a cluster.