Dan Enos: smart or slimy?
Dan Enos was officially hired as Alabama QB coach. I don't know Mr. Enos. Never met him. He might be an upstanding guy. But something doesn't smell right. His contract at Arkansas had a no-compete clause with other SEC schools + a large buyout. So after 17 days in Ann Arbor as WR coach, he jumps to Tuscaloosa. This short term move cleared the way for him to avoid a buyout agreement he had with Arkansas and void the non-compete clause regarding joing another SEC staff. Maybe he and Mr. Harbaugh are great personal friends and Jim did him a favor? Does not seem logical. The move seems slimy. Thoughts?
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:55 PM ^
Don't care anymore. Out of sight out of mind
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:57 PM ^
And those are not dichotomous; he is both smart and slimy. And I am glad he is not with us!
February 22nd, 2018 at 7:22 PM ^
well, he's MSU smart.
February 23rd, 2018 at 11:27 AM ^
He wanted to coach at Alabama and devised a way to make it happen. He was smart about how to work it, but it was done in a slimy way....
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:42 PM ^
Why not both? It’s slimy and smart. Arkansas should get better lawyers that know a non compete should be a length of time not based on a direct move. He found a work around and did what was best for him. As is often the case when people look out solely for themselves with no consideration of impact it was shitty for another group making him slimy. Both things are true
February 23rd, 2018 at 2:06 PM ^
I thought the same thing about Arkansas' lawyers, but then I started to wonder what the actual provision says. Was Enos let go when Bielema got the axe? If so, a non-compete clause probably wouldn't even have effect. I have read elsewhere that his jumping around was unrelated to that clause but I haven't investigated.
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:56 PM ^
But this is definitely the place for an unbiased opinion on the matter.
February 22nd, 2018 at 9:35 PM ^
Dude. Fuck Dan Enos. Let him go to Bama like all the position coaches before him, and sure go ahead, win a couple of national championships there. But then he’ll get hired as a head coach somewhere like Colorado St. And he’ll do ok at a small school, but when the big time SEC school comes calling, watch him take a head coaching job somewhere like Florida. And then watch out because he’s going to suck there and then he’ll fuck a shark and come begging to us for a job and we’ll be like fine, but you’re only coaching WRs.
That will teach him.
February 22nd, 2018 at 10:16 PM ^
You've absolutely earned your screen name
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:56 PM ^
but I’m pretty sure he’s a prick.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
Haha - I enjoyed this.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:33 PM ^
He's not a prick. He's just a big 'ol Penos.
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:57 PM ^
Don't want to provide no legal advice, but that course of conduct may be in violation of certain legal duties owed to Arkansas. But my personal view on non-compete clauses is that they are, themselves, an unfair and often anticompetitive burden on commerce and the professional livelihoods of hard-working Americans.
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:59 PM ^
What he said!
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:03 PM ^
See, there's this thing called the upvote arrow, and, well, it's there for like, stuff like agreement, as such.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:23 PM ^
Lighten up, Francis.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:20 PM ^
or do I need to re-read this for the third time?
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:57 PM ^
Exactly. Part of me thinks that Harbaugh was just trying to help him out.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:00 PM ^
I don't think Jim's hiring a guy at the height of recruiting season just to do him (and Bama) a favor.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
I agree, so that would seem to mean that Saban and Enos colluded to dupe Harbaugh, make him look foolish and in the process benefit themselves.
Wow that is slimy.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:24 PM ^
Enos and Saban, two former Spartans. I think you might be on to something.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:54 PM ^
I have wondered in the past if a recruit who has picked Alabama, and is sure he is going Alabama, has been told by Saben to put Michigan in his final group just to troll this fan base when officially anouncing for Alabama. Seems like a spartin thing to do.
February 22nd, 2018 at 9:37 PM ^
In addition to the crazy conspiracy theory, You didnt spell saban or spartan properly..
-1
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:20 PM ^
Enos played him. Plain and simple. Now lets shut those clowns out in the CFP the next two seasons.
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:57 PM ^
One correction: there was no buyout. He was let go by Arkansas and he could get a job anywhere he wanted.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:26 PM ^
So what it the point of signing a contract with Harbaugh and then 17 days later signing one with Saban? He just got a better offer? Trying to circumvent an SEC non-compete seems a more plausible reason.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:33 PM ^
discussing his contract and the fact that there was no restriction on him. As to the why? I have no clue, you have to ask him.
Regardless, I am happy with what we have JM is a WR coach and that is what we needed. We did not need another QB coach.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:39 PM ^
Because Alabama is a better job? Maybe?
February 22nd, 2018 at 9:15 PM ^
The point of which is that he and Saban had no reason to use Michigan.
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:59 PM ^
Enos isn’t any good anyways
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:59 PM ^
Could this post be any more out of date? It was an interesting question two months ago, now it is tired and not pertinent to our situation.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:10 PM ^
And also, as many people brought up at the time, getting a different job wouldn’t cause your non-compete to go away.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:00 PM ^
It's shady as fuck that Enos had a backdoor deal with Alabama and used it to get out of his SEC non-compete. I know there probably aren't any NCAA punishment ramifications but it bugs me that the NCAA allows ADs/coaches to leave after one year or less, whilst simultaniously disincentivizing the athlete from doing the same thing.
February 22nd, 2018 at 7:52 PM ^
And the fact that it isn’t true would probably harm the investigation.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:01 PM ^
If you're partial to unsubstantiated internet rumors (and we pretty much all are at one point or another), there are those who believe that Michigan State folk relayed the message to Dan that if he has ideas of ever becoming the head man at MSU, that he'd better not work for Michigan.
Do I believe this? Uh, I doubt that that alone would be able to cause him to leave a job he took just two weeks earlier. Now, he did recruit for Michigan in the short time he was here, which tells me that at one point he did intend to be here for some time. So...something happened. The job was attractive enough to him that he accepted it. Jim wanted him here because he contacted Enos the year before when Fisch left. Jim was surprised by Enos leaving. I'm not sure.
Maybe he decided he loves the South and wanted to stay there. Maybe he wants the Alabama job one day (idk about that, Dan) or another SEC job. Maybe that one year that Saban and Enos overlapped at MSU was so magical that it forged a bond for life. Idk. But it was almost certainly not Jim doing Enos a favor.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:07 PM ^
If true, that's funny considering that MSU's greatest football coach was an old Michigan assistant (Biggie Munn).
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:34 PM ^
Exactly, if that is true it is truly hilarious and stupid on their part.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:34 PM ^
According to Wikipedia, MSU won four national titles under Daugherty, as opposed to two under Munn. Doesn't that make him better by totally legit Wikipedia standards?
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:03 PM ^
Sorry, double posted.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:01 PM ^
Enos who?
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:02 PM ^
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
February 22nd, 2018 at 8:36 PM ^
Just to add a bit more, I could see plausible, legitimate reasons to jump ship if a 'Bama--at least a peer institution in football--offered a better path to Enos's desired goal or made for an easier move for his family. I could also see it as a penny-pinching, mean-spirited move intended to injure and humiliate Michigan.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:03 PM ^
This was discussed 4-6 weeks ago
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:03 PM ^
= smarmy
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:10 PM ^
it is both
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:06 PM ^
both smart *and* slimy
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:08 PM ^
Anus can go plug himself.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:13 PM ^
I think he got too much hell from msu fans to feel comfortable with the position here. It's sad, because unlike the rest of spartan nation, he would have finally been able to fulfill that secret dream of every spartan - the dream to be a Michigan man. Oh well, too bad for him.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:14 PM ^
Enos was fired along with the entire staff. He didn’t cheat the system.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/articles.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/20…
This is from his Arkansas contract:
“You covenant and agree not to accept employment in any coaching capacity, except for a head coach position, with any other SEC institution, including any East or West Division institution, prior to the expiration date of the Term and any mutually agreed up on extensions of the Term."
February 22nd, 2018 at 7:51 PM ^
People are stupid and would rather believe conspiracy theories instead of using a bit of common sense or doing research. Being an idiot is way easier.