Rumblings on The Twitters. College Station Weirdos

[Indndawg]

Notch up another coach.
Dough boy is done

This fanbase has much more dollars than sense

 

[aTotal360]

 

[Dawgbite]

No confirmation anywhere that I saw. It’s just some frustrated milkman with access to AI, although anything is possible when you’re rich!

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Official or not they did not like the cesspool comments, and that may provide some cause,
Other than losses.

 

[Xenomorph]

If you’re Elko making $958K/month how hard is it to say

“I don’t know what our fans are saying online but I’m sure they’re not happy because I’m not either…. Next question. “

 

[hdogg]

If you’re Elko making $958K/month how hard is it to say

“I don’t know what our fans are saying online but I’m sure they’re not happy because I’m not either…. Next question. “

It would be difficult for him to stop eating for long enough to say that many words in a row.

 

[patdog]

It’s a matter of time. The cesspool comment didn't win him any favors. That will come back to haunt him.

 

[skip dog]

so he had his "go pound sand / kick rocks" moment

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Notch up another coach.
Dough boy is done

This fanbase has much more dollars than sense

Hopefully they are conjuring up some strongly stated hand gestures for him…

 

[The Peeper]

I bet Elko has already called asking Dumbo where the best neighborhoods for MULTI millionaires is.................

 

[The Peeper]

Hopefully they are conjuring up some strongly stated hand gestures for him…View attachment 1483073

"They" didn't have to think hard, its been there all along

 

[aTotal360]

With that said, ATM is in better shape than FSU.

FSU athletics’ debt, leadership questions impacting future decisions

Florida State’s athletics department has significant financial issues, as it is more than $430M in debt, which makes it especially difficult to pay out up to $68M should it decide to part with football coach Mike Norvell and his staff.

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

 

[Treadawg2389]

Nobody is going to go there. They are insane

 

[johnson86-1]

If you’re Elko making $958K/month how hard is it to say

“I don’t know what our fans are saying online but I’m sure they’re not happy because I’m not either…. Next question. “

I think his buyout after this year is like $50M, so I can get how hard it'd be to resist the temptation to piss off the fanbase and dare them to fire you when they are bitching.

 

[johnson86-1]

Nobody is going to go there. They are insane

There will always be people willing to go get paid mid 8 figures to fail at a job. They'd be able to get people to take that job even if it didn't legitimately have the resources to win a national championship.

Now they are probably not going to get the top two or three hottest name coaches unless there is just very little competition in a hiring cycle, but they will get solid coaches to take the job. But everybody is making crazy reaches for coaches because the hire/fire cycle is so short. How the hell did it get to be normal for a relatively top tier job to have to overpay a guy that has had two good seasons as a head coach? You basically knew nothing about Elko's ability to sustain a program after going 9-4 and then 7-5 in two years at Duke.

 

[Dawgbite]

I think his buyout after this year is like $50M, so I can get how hard it'd be to resist the temptation to piss off the fanbase and dare them to fire you when they are bitching.

Sounds like a great retirement plan to me!

 

[Howiefeltersnstch]

If i had a contract paying me 958k a month my answer would have been " do you think I give a 17 what our fan base is saying ?"

 

[The Peeper]

There will always be people willing to go get paid mid 8 figures to fail at a job.

 

[tired]

I thought this was funny & spot on from AI. Why does A&M underachieve with the most money?

When you drop a modern, 18-to-22-year-old football player or a high-level assistant coach into that culture, that pressure cooker, it creates a bizarre psychological dynamic.

The expectations are astronomically high, but the institutional patience is zero. The moment a coach like Mike Elko faces adversity, the bizarrely intense booster networks start meddling, the fanbase panics, and coaches begin making "safe" survival hires (like promoting Wiggins) rather than running the program like a cold, calculating corporate enterprise.


Texas A&M is a military academy masquerading as a modern SEC powerhouse, funded by billionaires who treat the football team like a status symbol. It is a spectacular, captivating soap opera—and as long as that "weird" institutional culture prioritizes rigid tradition over pure, cutthroat football efficiency, they will continue to be the most expensive underachievers in the country.

 

[RocketDawg]

If you’re Elko making $958K/month how hard is it to say

“I don’t know what our fans are saying online but I’m sure they’re not happy because I’m not either…. Next question. “

He could always blame it on AI. Or at least have said they could pound sand.