1601

Jake Lebahn, a sports radio host in Topeka, is tweeting that Mack Brown will retire after this weekend’s Baylor game. He cites an unnamed “source in the coaching world.”

1602

When a school gets hit with an NCAA investigation for serious stuff, they’re desperately trying to avoid having the NCAA find that there’s a “lack of institutional control” there. That’s usually the last warning before a school has the so-called “death penalty” put on the table. If your school is found to have a “lack of institutional control”, it means the NCAA thinks your whole athletic department–or at least a major sport–is corrupt from the top down, including coaches, and they usually levy the heaviest of sanctions on that as a result.

One thing that schools in fear of that finding do is either ask for the resignation(s) of coaches and/or athletic directors, or fire them outright. Nothing tells the NCAA “we’re on this, we’re taking responsibility” like firing the guilty parties. But–the school still gets a penalty. Since it isn’t fair that a coach with culpability for that penalty gets away scot-free and can go coach somewhere else, the NCAA instituted a “show-cause” rule into their bylaws.

If an out-of-work coach is hit with a “show-cause” penalty, any school that hires him must “show cause” to the NCAA that the coach in question was the only possible coach that was available for their job, period. If they cannot show that reasonably (and no one can), then if the school hires a coach with a “show-cause”, that hiring school is also hit with the same penalties and sanctions as the coach’s original school was served with, for the duration of the time period that previous school is under sanction.

The last coach I can think of who got a show-cause was Tennessee hoops coach Bruce Pearl. Pearl got fired, and any school who hires Pearl over the next five years must show-cause that Pearl is the only guy able to serve as their basketball coach, or that hiring school gets slapped with the same penalty the Volunteers got. If Akron wants to hire Jim Tressel and Tress gets slapped with a show-cause penalty, Akron will get the same sanctions tOSU will be penalized with.

Hope that makes sense.

1603

Yup, thanks Triggercut.

~C~

1604

That’s a top-notch source right there. Looks legit.

1605

It doesn’t just mean off with his head?

I believe Sherman has a hefty buyout and the discussion I heard was that they’d just let him turn into a lame duck rather than pay two salaries.

1606

Like I said, Sherman fired today.

1607

That’s obviously what Byrne meant.

Sounds like there’s some disagreement as to how much Sherm is owed in buyout. A&M thinks they owe him one number; Sherm thinks another. Issue is that A&M claims Sherm never signed his extension.

1608

Sorry, guess I was being obtuse. Anyway, as I was saying-hey, what the hell trig! Keep your facts out of this thread, we’re trying to speculate over here!

1609

Correction: Sherm signed the extension; A&M president Loftin didn’t.

Seriously. That’s A&M’s argument for why they can use the earlier contact’s buyout clause.

For those who are thinking they couldn’t possibly be this stupid…welcome to College Station, TX

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1610

There sure are a lot of notable openings this year. And that means that more then one school is going to end up settling since there aren’t all that many big names out there. Not everyone is going to be able to hire Summlin, for example, assuming he leaves Houston to begin with.

Oh, and the NCAA ruled UCLA bowl eligible today meaning even if they lose to Oregon and finish 6-7, they are allowed to go to a bowl game. Just not with Neuheisel as their coach.

1611

I think its really embarrassing that
a. they even petitioned with as shitty a season that they had and
b. the petitioned when they were 6-5 knowing full well they were going to get rolled in the last two games.

1612

I think UCLA could be the first 6-8 team in NCAA history, if they lose their bowl game. (I’m already assuming they lose the Pac-12 championship game, because, c’mon!)

1613

Just because Oregon is favored by 31 you think that UCLA will lose?

1614

Man, how the heck did a 6-6 team make it to the Pac championship game? I get that USC is not eligible, but the second place teams in each big ten division are 10-2 and 9-3. Admittedly, the third place team in the legends division is 6-6.

1615

I think (I could be wrong) but the coaches for at least half the teams in the southern division were fired at some point during this season. UCLA and both the Arizona schools. The south is also where Colorado and Utah were placed.

1616

Arizona started the year with a murderer’s row of a schedule, which gave them a terrible start, which got their coach fired halfway through the season. The interim coach gave it a go, but it was season over.

Arizona State looked like it was going to roll the South, and it knocked off USC early, but this is a Dennis Erickson team, remember. It collapsed after a promising start. All it had to do was win out and the division was theirs, but they lost to a bunch of teams, including UCLA. Result, Erickson fired.

Colorado is terrible, and fired its coach last year. Unfortunately, they need at least 2-3 years of recruiting to get to anything competitive.

Utah was believed to be the big unknown. A lot of people thought they’d be favorites for the South, mainly because they didn’t have to face Stanford or Oregon (poor Colorado did). But, as when often happens when you elevate one of these overachieving programs from non-AQ conferences, they got hammered from the grind of actually having to play bigger schools week after week after week. The middle of the Pac had its way with Utah.

Then there’s USC, which is eligible for post-season play.

So, UCLA wins the South by Homer Simpson’s two favorite words: de-fault.

1617

What the fuck is up with the Mack Brown talk? I heard Dan Patrick mention it this morning, and the local guys (San Antonio) were talking about it yesterday. No specifics in either case.

1618

My wife grew up in Utah, but is from Alabama. She moved back 15 years ago and had recently had to listen to all her Utah friends bitch about how they got no respect and they were just as good as all of “her SEC teams”. So as they joined the PAC and have been beaten about the head and neck this year, we have reveled in it and her friends have become strangely quiet on Facebook.

1619

It’s unfortunate that this wasn’t one of the better squads that Utah has put on the field. I have no doubt that Utah partisans over-rate their ability, but they’ve definitely had more talent in recent years than they do right now.

1620

I agree with that. It was always our contention, as it is with many analysts, that it would be much harder for Utah with, say, 8 tough match-ups each year as opposed to 2. At minimum, I think it would be harder to stay healthy with that many grueling games. We heard back that Utah would just as easily dominate the SEC. Not so fast Utes.