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As much as I like to joke about us fans having an impact, June Jones would be the head coach today if the middlemen in this deal had their facts straight on his SMU buyout. That's reality.
Calvisi said multiple sources indicated the buyout was not the problem, and that one booster in particular was going to write the $2M check on the spot to cover the buyout. I think the background check was a major issue, and would've created even more controversy, especially for many of those who were un-supportive of the hire in the first place. The mixture of Booster outlash and the questionable background ended the deal, from what I'm hearing.
 

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The boosters stopped it. Many were calling in to cancel their season tickets. It was a major uproar.
 

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Calvisi said multiple sources indicated the buyout was not the problem, and that one booster in particular was going to write the $2M check on the spot to cover the buyout. I think the background check was a major issue, and would've created even more controversy, especially for many of those who were un-supportive of the hire in the first place. The mixture of Booster outlash and the questionable background ended the deal, from what I'm hearing.

You mean the UH professor letter claiming June Jones got an 18-year-old volleyball player pregnant and generally horn dogged around campus with college girls? They already knew that before getting into negotiations. It's old news.

I can tell you for certain one booster offered ASU millions of dollars -- much more than the buyout -- to go after June Jones. It's the only reason ASU wanted him. ASU felt jerked around the whole deal, the final straw being when Steinberg called Crow back for more buyout money after Crow thought the deal was done. Crow got upset, hung up the phone, and the next communication ASU had with them was to pull the deal. That's not something I've heard from a friend of a friend. That really did happen. That's why Steinberg was so freaked out about it.
 

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You mean the UH professor letter claiming June Jones got an 18-year-old volleyball player pregnant and generally horn dogged around campus with college girls? They already knew that before getting into negotiations. It's old news.

I can tell you for certain one booster offered ASU millions of dollars -- much more than the buyout -- to go after June Jones. It's the only reason ASU wanted him. ASU felt jerked around the whole deal, the final straw being when Steinberg called Crow back for more buyout money after Crow thought the deal was done. Crow got upset, hung up the phone, and the next communication ASU had with them was to pull the deal. That's not something I've heard from a friend of a friend. That really did happen. That's why Steinberg was so freaked out about it.

Where does Steinberg get off freaking out about that? If the deal was done, then Steinberg asked for more money, how is that Crow's fault?
 

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Where does Steinberg get off freaking out about that? If the deal was done, then Steinberg asked for more money, how is that Crow's fault?

Steinberg asked for more money because the search firm ASU was using screwed up on the cost of Jones' buyout. Steinberg was just passing along information. His client wasn't going to get more money.
 

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Steinberg asked for more money because the search firm ASU was using screwed up on the cost of Jones' buyout. Steinberg was just passing along information. His client wasn't going to get more money.

This is the new search firm ASU is using?

They don't know how to read a contract? Or is it so complicated that only Leigh Steinberg could understand it?
 
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Schad reported on ESPN that Wilcox is the name he's hearing most. However, with the way things have gone thus far, I wouldn't be surprised if ASU got someone completely off the radar. Any names we hear now, are most likely just smoke screens with no real validity. I'm still hoping Pflugrad is kept in consideration, because boosters are advocating candidates with ASU ties.
 

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I don't understand all the excitement about Wilcox, he's got a MUCH less impressive resume than English. The fact that we aren't hearing English's name at all is mind boggling.

Matt, you know all those guys you called to share your feelings with Crow about Jones...care to call them and have them get on the phone for English? :) I imagine at this point its going to just take a torrent of well heeled boosters calling on English's behalf to get the AD to wake up.
 

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I don't understand all the excitement about Wilcox, he's got a MUCH less impressive resume than English. The fact that we aren't hearing English's name at all is mind boggling.

Matt, you know all those guys you called to share your feelings with Crow about Jones...care to call them and have them get on the phone for English? :) I imagine at this point its going to just take a torrent of well heeled boosters calling on English's behalf to get the AD to wake up.

Oh, I was joking about bringing down the Jones deal. I did call my booster friends, but I don't have any power there. Ponder's the only one who's ever taken my call over there.

I know a lot about Wilcox, but there are a lot of people who are taking about the staff he would hire. That I don't know about. He and his dad have Cal connections that run very deep. His brother went to Oregon, of course. Anything about who he knows is beyond my knowledge. Someone's apparently outlined who they think his staff would be. I've love to see that list.
 

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Just got the lowdown on Wilcox's theoretical staff. If true -- and I have no clue -- it would indeed be an outstanding West Coast recruiting staff.
 

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Just got the lowdown on Wilcox's theoretical staff. If true -- and I have no clue -- it would indeed be an outstanding West Coast recruiting staff.

Would he keep Mazzone around and focus on the D? If that were the case, and if he got a couple dynamite recruiters, I could be happy with that. Klemm part of the theoretical group?
 

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Would he keep Mazzone around and focus on the D? If that were the case, and if he got a couple dynamite recruiters, I could be happy with that. Klemm part of the theoretical group?

That's the rumor. Still don't see how it's anything more than conjecture.
 

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I've heard the names Tosh Lupoi, Matt Lubick, and Adrian Klemm all have connections to Wilcox. And if he can get Broussard to stay then that would be one hell of a staff.
 

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I've heard the names Tosh Lupoi, Matt Lubick, and Adrian Klemm all have connections to Wilcox. And if he can get Broussard to stay then that would be one hell of a staff.

That would be bananas, and Id officially lay down the Ron English banner if that was the staff.
 

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I've heard the names Tosh Lupoi, Matt Lubick, and Adrian Klemm all have connections to Wilcox. And if he can get Broussard to stay then that would be one hell of a staff.

Honestly, I think it's a pipe dream BS fantasy. Lubick is in line for mid-major HC job. He's not going to be part of someone else's staff unless it's really big time. He's definitely not going to come back to ASU under Wilcox.
 

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Honestly, I think it's a pipe dream BS fantasy. Lubick is in line for mid-major HC job. He's not going to be part of someone else's staff unless it's really big time. He's definitely not going to come back to ASU under Wilcox.

Shhh don't ruin the fun. Though really even getting 2 of those 3 would be terrific, actually I'd be thrilled with any 1 of them plus Broussard.
 

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After looking at Leavitt's wiki page, what really makes him better than June Jones in everyone's opinion?
I'm not a big fan of him. But off the top of my head BCS coaching experience and he's a defensive coach.

I really don't like that his teams were really heavily penalized, so much so that South Florida was dubbed Penalty U by the people down there. We've had enough of that crap here.
 

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After looking at Leavitt's wiki page, what really makes him better than June Jones in everyone's opinion?

In terms of the bottom line, nothing. But he doesn't run the run-and-shoot, which is a step up in my book. Alabama tried desperately to hire him in Dec. 2006. They sent him a contract with basically a blank check. He declined, so Alabama hired Saban. Funny how things work out. K-State also went after him when Bill Snyder retired and he didn't want that job, either.

I think he knew he had a cake job. Sweep up after Miami, UF and FSU, getting anybody he wanted because he was at a ginormous state commuter school. Not sure anyone realizes that USF is one of the 10 largest universities in the country in enrollment. By the time Alabama and K-State came around, he had already built USF into a good program and they were moving into the Big East, where ... let's be real, it's easier to win 9 games a year there and keep those fans satisfied than to win 11 games a year at Alabama and keep those nut jobs (my family included) satiated.

Problem is he's a nut job, too.

I can forgive his stupidity in the locker room and even his lying, but I think his program-building skills come with a gigantic red flag. There is no home-school recruiting advantage in Arizona. He has no clue what it takes to build a program here.

His name was very much the reason I wrote this epic post ...

http://wireddevils.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-asu-needs-young-coach-and-staff.html
 

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Patterson was quoted yesterday as saying the next coach must have head coaching experience.

Could we get a more inept group to run this search? Why limit the candidate pool like that?

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Patterson was quoted yesterday as saying the next coach must have head coaching experience.

Could we get a more inept group to run this search? Why limit the candidate pool like that?

That certainly limits the field. English and Leavitt both have HC experience. Also Art Briles from Baylor.
 

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Awesome post Self.


In terms of the bottom line, nothing. But he doesn't run the run-and-shoot, which is a step up in my book. Alabama tried desperately to hire him in Dec. 2006. They sent him a contract with basically a blank check. He declined, so Alabama hired Saban. Funny how things work out. K-State also went after him when Bill Snyder retired and he didn't want that job, either.

I think he knew he had a cake job. Sweep up after Miami, UF and FSU, getting anybody he wanted because he was at a ginormous state commuter school. Not sure anyone realizes that USF is one of the 10 largest universities in the country in enrollment. By the time Alabama and K-State came around, he had already built USF into a good program and they were moving into the Big East, where ... let's be real, it's easier to win 9 games a year there and keep those fans satisfied than to win 11 games a year at Alabama and keep those nut jobs (my family included) satiated.

Problem is he's a nut job, too.

I can forgive his stupidity in the locker room and even his lying, but I think his program-building skills come with a gigantic red flag. There is no home-school recruiting advantage in Arizona. He has no clue what it takes to build a program here.

His name was very much the reason I wrote this epic post ...

http://wireddevils.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-asu-needs-young-coach-and-staff.html
 

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