ANOTHER Coaching rumor

[pmack65]

as Randy Shannon coming as DC, Turner leaving, Coach O coaching D-Line and Co-DC. How true it is not sure but comes from a source who would know.

 

[msstate7]

I would be very happy if this happens. Not sure we'd spend the money this would require though

 

[esplanade91]

Big if true. I don't know how I feel about cutting Turner loose though.

 

[engie]

That is my dream scenario. I just don't know if Strick would be willing to invest the amount of money needed to make it all happen.

Mullen - from $3.3mil to at least $4mil
Shannon - spot from $575k to around $1mil
Ogre - spot from $300k to around $1mil
The rest of the staff get 25% raises...

Mullen $4mil
Staff about $4,259,375

That would make us(currently) around the 5th highest paid assistant staff(among public schools) in the country. Mullen would be about the 12th highest paid head guy currently.

That's serious, serious damn money....

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

That's serious, serious damn money....

If you want to make serious money, you got to spend serious money. This ain't your Templeton MSU anymore.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Yep. Bama upped the ante with Kiffin and Auburn continued with Boom. The arms war in the SEC West isn't about to slow down. It's crazy the amount of money being invested.

 

[chew1095]

Might be why Townsend is calling defensive plays in the Orange Bowl...

 

[jmac.sixpack]

Big if true. I don't know how I feel about cutting Turner loose though.

I heard that Turner and Townsend are not happy, thus leaving. Mullen isn't easy to get along with per sources, and he thru them all under the bus after the OM game. (He should have thrown his play-calling/game plan under the bus, too.)

 

[maroonmania]

Heck, if I was Mullen and could get Shannon and O I would be willing to take a little less myself. Upping my chances to win a title would trump getting a little extra pay when I'm already making over 3 mil.

 

[MedDawg]

I'd be happy with just Shannon as DC...

Shannon would be a big time hire. I don't know if I'd want to lose Turner, but getting Orgeron as a Dline coach/co-DC with Shannon as DC/co-DC would be a home run hire.

 

[Dawgfann77]

We were left a very large sum of money earmarked for facilities and coaches salary. This combined with sec network money and donations being up we CAN afford to make these hires. Contrary we cannot afford to not make some great hires.

 

[esplanade91]

I heard that Turner and Townsend are not happy, thus leaving. Mullen isn't easy to get along with per sources, and he thru them all under the bus after the OM game. (He should have thrown his play-calling/game plan under the bus, too.)

They're both expendable, but I don't know that I'd be thrilled to lose 3/4th's of the defensive staff even if we were upgrading. Townsend took the job and cited Mullen's record of promoting assistants as the reason, so I could see him being unhappy stuck at corners.

 

[121Josey]

Reads more like a letter to Santa. That's a lot of change for a coach who would leave in a year. Better make O's pay structure progressive.

 

[engie]

he thru them all under the bus after the OM game. (He should have thrown his play-calling/game plan under the bus, too.)

Did you listen to the post-Egg Bowl press conference?(no you did not)

Mullen very much threw himself under the bus as well after that game.

 

[Dawg1976]

I approve fwiw.

 

[hatfieldms]

I don't understand while people continue to ignore this

....

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

If Shannon is our savior at DC, why isn't he even the DC for his team? I don't get it. A team who's beneath us in the football world doesn't think enough of him to be their DC but we do? Not saying it's terrible because I don't know enough about him or the situation at arkansas but it just seems odd.

 

[engie]

If Shannon is our savior at DC, why isn't he even the DC for his team? I don't get it. A team who's beneath us in the football world doesn't think enough of him to be their DC but we do? Not saying it's terrible because I don't know enough about him or the situation at arkansas but it just seems odd.

Shannon has been offered DC jobs all over the country the last couple of years. He's turned down a bunch of them. His situation is strange, but it's one he chose, not one he got stuck with...

In about 15 defenses he's been directly associated with, he's only been around one that was out of the top 35 -- and that was the first D at Arkansas. 5 of his 6 as DC at Miami were in the top 10 -- a place Miami hasn't actually been back to since.

 

[esplanade91]

Didn't he bounce from Arkansas to UAB and then actively seek out an opening at Arkansas the next year?

 

[ArcherSPS]

Did you read that on Sprivals?

 

[DreadNought.sixpack]

I heard that Turner and Townsend are not happy, thus leaving. Mullen isn't easy to get along with per sources, and he thru them all under the bus after the OM game. (He should have thrown his play-calling/game plan under the bus, too.)

This is just another flaming piece of BS. Mullen criticized himself as well but the CL ran with the headline that made Mullen sound like he blamed Collins. How does this get any traction within our own fan base?

 

[hatfieldms]

Because we have dumb *** fans

No sarcastericks needed

 

[mcdawg22]

I don't know but looking up his info Patrick Nix was his coordinator. Patrick Nix is from Attalla, AL. Tyrone and Derrick Nix are from Attalla too. Pretty sure they aren't related for obvious reasons but that's a pretty weird coincidence.

 

[mount lefroy]

I heard that Turner and Townsend are not happy, thus leaving. Mullen isn't easy to get along with per sources, and he thru them all under the bus after the OM game. (He should have thrown his play-calling/game plan under the bus, too.)

You heard mullen is hard to get along with??!!??

WELL....I......NEVER.

 

[Beretta.sixpack]

Let me preface this about Randy Shannon....

The rep for my company in Fayetteville, whom Im very close to, his father is a physican who sits on their board of regents or whatever the hell they call it.....when I first heard the rumor about randy shannon (and I like the rumor) that he was on campus in starkville a few weeks back, i sent him a text to see what he thought....

he said "I'd have a hard time believing he would leave. He is the second highest paid coach on the team"


while I'm throwing out my arkansas connections.....he tailgates at UA games where Jen Bielema tailgates.....and he says she is butt ugly in person......lots of makeup to cover up lots of pits on her face. she was just a lucky gal at the right blackjack table at the right time.

 

[Old Fart Dawg]

I gotta call ******** on this.
No way Jen Bielema is butt ugly. You try to cover up butt ugly with make-up, and all you have is lipstick on a pig.

Good try, though

 

[Dawgfann77]

Didn't he bounce from Arkansas to UAB and then actively seek out an opening at Arkansas the next year?

No you may be thinking of Garrett McGee. Here is Shannon's bio. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Shannon

 

[patdog]

I know every school has their share of dumb fans, but I really do believe we win the prize.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

We certainly win the prize for the frequency with which people say we have the most dumbass fans of any school.

 

[patdog]

There is a reason for that.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

No there's not. It's just something people say here and Elite when the read something they don't agree with.

 

[engie]

he said "I'd have a hard time believing he would leave. He is the second highest paid coach on the team"

He's a linebackers/asst head coach making $400k per year at Arky. We offer a promotion and a significant pay bump over that.

That said, Shannon seems to be about "fit" above all else. He's turned down Power5 DC jobs when he didn't even have another job at all. So, you can't assume "traditional" motivations for him...

 

[patdog]

So our own fans saying Mullen threw the defensive coaches under the bus when he clearly blamed himself as well is not stupid? I really don't follow your logic on that.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Even if it is stupid, it doesn't mean we have the dumbest or worst fans in the country. What we do have is a lot of people who love to claim that we do when they read something they don't agree with.

 

[57stratdawg]

Haha amen. Kind of like calling another fanbase "obsessed". Just another 21st century euphemism.

 

[Wicked Pissah]

We were left a very large sum of money earmarked for facilities and coaches salary. This combined with sec network money and donations being up we CAN afford to make these hires. Contrary we cannot afford to not make some great hires.

Nope

 

[mcdawg22]

Didn't he turn down those jobs because it would negate his 1.5 million dollar buyout with Miami?

 

[hatfieldms]

I didn't say we have the dumbest fans

Just dumb *** fans.

 

[msstate7]

So what would you rate our fans on the dumb *** level (1-10)?***

 

[MaroonState]

I have a hard time believing Shannon would come here to be DC when he wouldn't even come here to be the head coach at one time. I think he even had some not so nice things to say about Starkvegas at the time but my memory isn't what it used to be.