BornInAA

November 9th, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^

Sometimes you just gotta clean house to get rid of all the bad blood. We have seen it this past week Illinois, Missouri and the Lions. All different reasons in each case, but some things you can't fix with PR and heads have to roll.

FreddieMercuryHayes

November 9th, 2015 at 12:14 PM ^

I would not be surprised if the AD thing is a small correction away from the 'corporate' athletics model a lot of colleges have started to impliment.  Maybe seeing that college sports spectators don't want their teams run like a professional team?  Also could be just be sports are becoming more and more profitable and the industry is more cut throat now.  I don't know for sure.  I think the coaches thing might just be a fluke.  But could also be related to issues with AD leadership.

Mr Miggle

November 9th, 2015 at 12:28 PM ^

Texas fits your first hypothesis, but I'm not sure Brandon or Patterson get the ax if not for their personality flaws. Or if their football teams were winning. I think they were on a shorter leash because of their corporate approach.

I don't think there's any connection to why Thomas was fired. That would have happened in a different time and place too. Same with what happened in Minnesota.

I think your main point is probably right, though. With the increase in revenue and AD salaries, there's more pressure and expectations. Make a couple of bad hires and you could be out,

mGrowOld

November 9th, 2015 at 12:15 PM ^

Reported today that former coach Tim Beckman did not "believe" in hamstring injuries and called players pussies who couldnt play with one.  General George Patton - Beckman also didnt believe in concusson protocal and tried to rush players back from that too.

Sorry Mike - when you hire somebody that stupid you get what you get.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2015/11/9/9696110/tim-beckman-…

 

JFW

November 9th, 2015 at 12:26 PM ^

He should be banned from coaching everything from Pop Warner on up!

 

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  • Beckman got in the way of a potential life-threatening injury: "Two physicians confronted coach Beckman during the 2012 season after a player went down with a potential spinal injury. The sports medicine staff evaluating the player report that they did not want the player to move as they were stabilizing his spine and holding the player's head still, but coach Beckman reportedly inserted himself to tell the player to turn his head to look at coach Beckman so that he could tell the player that he was going to be fine."
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    LSAClassOf2000

    November 9th, 2015 at 12:29 PM ^

    This isn't even the worst of the stuff in that report, but yikes:

    One one occasion, Beckman said, "I don't care if you're hurt, everyone is practicing when we get back. No one cares if you're hurt, I don't care. Your family may care. Northwestern doesn't care."

    Yeah, I think that if you are an AD and you hire someone that - 

    A) Berates and debases injured players and while he may not believe in hamstring injuries, probably believes that trephination is a time-honored cure for ankle sprains, and 

    B) Has an irrational and vehement anti-Northwesten policy to a point that seems silly and animated

    - you're probably not going to last terribly long as an AD once this becomes public. 

    lilpenny1316

    November 9th, 2015 at 12:20 PM ^

    If Illinois is smart, they'll go over to Northern Illinois and take their AD and Head Coach.

    Their AD (Sean Frazier) was at UW for 7 years, so he knows the conference.  The HC (Rod Carey) played at Indiana and all NIU does is win, just knocked off undefeated Toledo last week.  If Ilinois is smart, they'd bring these two in and make the program competent again.

    UofM626

    November 9th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^

    Leave the Houston for Purdue? Really people!! Houston is arguably the #1 city for High School football and he is slowly cleaning up w recruits. If I'm Herman I would leave for South Carolina and VT but no way in hell in leaving for Purdue or Rutgers

    Victor Valiant

    November 9th, 2015 at 1:34 PM ^

    I, for one, want to see Justin Fuente hired into a B1G job. Anybody that can win at Memphis is a top tier coaching candidate. He might even be overqualified for Minnesota or Illinois to be honest. Maryland could be a good spot for him.

    BlueMan80

    November 9th, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^

    I sure wouldn't trust him hiring another football coach.  I also think they want to have someone in place so they don't have Cubit keep the HC job by default.  Of course, this is all for naught if they pick another AD like Thomas.  It will be interesting to hear what names get thrown out as candidates.  We'll see how ambitious they get.