In Reply to: Lame duck Block blocked firing Chip and paying the buyout... posted by Born2BBruin on February 10, 2024 at 07:58:00
That’s revisionist history. Why? Because Jarmond extended him after 2022!!!! That’s before Block was leaving. What changed from December 2022 until now? Why extend him? The answer is really nothing. We had a similar year this year as last. It also makes the Ohio State guys post even more absurd. You have the talk about what the future of the program is THEN before you sign an extension, not a year later.
Typically the reasons for extending a coach include others looking to steal your head coach or to provide a 4 year window to provide current recruits comfort that their HC will be there for their collegiate careers. Clearly, the later is irrelevant and if we wanted him gone, this didn’t help (because the buyout grew) and nobody was banging down his door.
You think the appease the Regrnts we raised the HC salary to 6.1mm. Moreover Kalimony has already sorta been set, firing Chip woukd only have been 1.5mm evidently and he was begging to leave. Ps, the Regents argument is flawed:
“DA2203 is the University of California policy which delegates the authority “to negotiate and finalize compensation contracts for all men’s and/or women’s coaches and football offensive/defensive coordinators“ from the Regents to the UC President and the UC President has delegated the authority to the Chancellors.
According to a UCLA Athletic Department spokesperson, “The Regents designate authority to university chancellors and presidents to approve the hiring of positions, including head coaches, within certain parameters. It would only need Regents approval if any of those parameters were exceeded.”
So, in other words, it isn’t very likely that the contract of Steve Alford’s replacement would need to go to the UC Regents for approval.
To be fair, the parameters of DA2203 which would require trigger a review by the Regents l are primarily financial, but it’s still unlikely that Alford’s replacement will need to be approved by the UC Regents because a review of the UC Regents’ minutes since Chip Kelly was hired indicates that Kelly’s contract did not require approval by the Regents.”
Now we are stuck with very limited options. If anything this puts the chance of a rebuild back, at least, another year. The only way to get new players is to hire a HC from somewhere and have their athletes transfer during the 30 days window. That means we need to hire a coach at a really good program who has a lot of talent. Good luck doing that in February/March. If we don’t hire a sitting HC then no Transfer window. We picked up penny’s and walked over dollars.
I think the reason why we didn’t fire Chip has nothing to do with UCLA. It has to do with Casey Wasserman. He didn’t want to fire him. The “Golden Rule” at play.