Dolphins decide to keep Sparano

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"LATEST ESPN UPDATE: After meeting w Harbaugh, source says Dolphins have decided that Tony Sparano is the best man for job. Will be retained."
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big10football

January 7th, 2011 at 12:05 AM ^

Mortensen just said on SC that everyoone expects Harbaugh back at Stanford. What a change in circumstance. I remember everyone saying that there is no way he returns to Stanford. What a mess. C'mon DB.

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BlueinLansing

January 7th, 2011 at 12:22 AM ^

in Scottsdale, Arizona the Dominos Pizza jet sits. 

 

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N220DF

 

Shortly after the meetings Wed the plane flew from Ypsilanti's Willow Run to Western Pa, Latrobe Pa and stayed for a few hours (my theory dropping off RR and Family at their Pa retreat or interviewing a PSU assistant?). 

 

The plane then left for Chicago Executive Airport located very close to Evanston, Illinois.  Stays overnight.   Later this afternoon reports begin to filter in that Fitzgerald is staying at NU.  Not a coincidence I believe.

 

The plane leaves Chicago mid afternoon for Scottsdale Executive Airport, then comes the tricky part.  Minutes after touching down another Executive jet arrives from where?  yes, San Francisco Airport.

 

Stay tuned friends, stay tuned.

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sportsfreak0819

January 7th, 2011 at 12:27 AM ^

i mean we havent really been mentioned as a front-runner in any of the previous reports and all of those turned out to be false... so maybe the last report is jim harbaugh actually announcing that he will come here and its finally true... one can hope 

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Needs

January 7th, 2011 at 10:25 AM ^

Knowing a little something about Stanford's academic culture and recent financial issues, this seems doubtful. Stanford's AD can't be self-supporting with their very low football sales. Their endowment suffered a huge hit in the financial crisis, to the point where several major departments have had to severely curtail their graduate admissions (from ~20 to 3 or 4 people a year). They had to float bridge loans just to make payroll for a couple months (so did Harvard, the perils of being endowment dependent). Stanford's faculty is already uneasy with big time athletics and has a significant voice in university governance.

I just can't believe in that atmosphere, the AD has the institutional power at Stanford to get that kind of a raise when so many academic departments have been forced into significant cutbacks. I suppose there's the possibility that one of the google boys is underwriting the raise, but even that's going to cause significant unease institutionally, given that faculty are going to see that money as something that could have gone toward something productive (and I'd say the belief that major college athletics is antithetical to the larger mission of the unversity is at least a significant minority view among the faculty.)

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D.C.Blue

January 7th, 2011 at 2:20 AM ^

and now my brain is already asleep but I also thought I heard clayton say that Stanford offered him more in the amount of $5 mil.  I'm sure I heard it wrong but in case I didn't, did the world of mathematics change and now 5 mil is more than 5.2 mil?  I gotta get some rest, my brain is melting

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