It should be noted that football recruits are also committed which does not mean jack until they sign the freaking LOI. Via ACC Now:
So when asked Monday whether Tennessee has asked permission to talk to football coach Butch Davis about its head coaching vacancy, Baddour said he wanted to stick with that policy.
However, “Coach Davis has spoken clearly and loudly about his commitment to North Carolina,’’ Baddour said. “… All of us, especially Coach Davis, are so focused on the team and this week’s game at Maryland … and I’m just so proud and happy for this program, and what he has done.”
Is there an echo in here? Anyone want to tell me why Baddour repeating what Davis said changes the situation any? Also, I fully expected Baddour to follow up “proud and happy” with “we are just plum tickled” in an effort to shore up support with the 80 year old women who call the radio show.
Baddour is also supposed to meet with the Board of Trustees “soon” to talk about Phase I of Kenan Stadium renovations. I intepret “soon” to mean “as quickly as we can get these guys in the same room.”
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THF observes that “It should be noted that football recruits are also committed which does not mean jack until they sign the freaking LOI.”
Actually, it doesn’t mean jack even AFTER they sign the LOI. Sure, there’s a modest penalty for breaking an LOI, but increasingly even that tepid sanction goes unused. The person “committed” just whines about how circumstances have changed, and gets released.
The very idea of commitment has become an anachronism. It used to mean pledging to do something even if it came to pass that, later on, you wanted to do something else. Indeed, if anyone could do what he wanted for any reason that popped up, there would be no sense in asking for, or giving, a “commitment” to begin with. It is precisely the turning away from later temptation that giving a “commitment” used to represent.
My father taught me that there is a term for keeping your word. The term is “honor.” In a culture that devalues honor in favor of convenience, it is unrealistic to expect people to do what they promise to do.
I wish they’d institute a rule that said if a coach breaks his contract he must sit out a year in his respective division, just like transfers. Of course, if the school wanted to release him from this clause, then fine. If a school breaks a contract, they pay through the nose. What does a coach lose? Even if they have to pay some money, the next schools usually covers this buyout. Until they makes some rules that punishes these moves, it will only get worse.
The thing is that I don’t blame coaches for doing this. They are the ones who take the fall if things go crappy, and it is a job like everything else. They are going to exploit a flawed system, and rightfully so.
THF, have you heard what Fulmer’s buyout is? I heard it was something like $6 mil.
Not to change the subject but DOOK only scored 80! against Presbyterian last night.