The point is we can selectively fill holes with NIL-funded grad transfers - QB next year for instance, hopefully a good outside WR, etc - but that's maybe a half-dozen guys on the two-deep. We're not going the FSU/LSU route, we shouldn't and we can't. And with the exception of maybe FSU none of the teams that have gone that route are actually that good.
This is why MF needs to decide one way or the other as soon as possible.
If he thought GG was the solution, it would have happened already.
I just meant I think he's gonna work through final two games with an interim plan of some kind where Parker is not officially demoted (or is) and for sure not fired yet and where others will be involved (announced or not) with play calling. Then after the Stanford game, he and admin move fast since they will need to for all the reasons we've outlined here. If it's anything else, we're in trouble in '24.
I’m fine with him doing nothing publicly if he does the football coaching equivalent of what I do for my 2/3 year olds in the car and give them cell phones, tablets, and steering wheels that don’t actually work.
Maybe Parker can learn a thing or two and apologize to all of us.
No lies detected.
Legit LOL’d at this. Reps. 😂
Potential? Performance or bowl tie ins? How does someone guess at his potential NIL worth?
Lcaps the guy said he actually got $2MM but I think that has to be a figure including incentives??? So perhaps it is $2mm flat and I am wrong in thinking there were incentives or performance metrics tie-ins.
...like MF realizes that Parker is in over his head and Gino is a place holder until the end of the season.
Lcaps- what’s the difference between a Bot member and a BOT called a Hesburgh Trustee? Is that a Trustee of the Library Capital Csmpaign or ?
That Gino sucks at OC/Play calling just as much as he sucks at QB development.
No idea, wasn't doubting your information. Just thought the way it was presented was interesting with the use of potential. 2 million for a guy who probably won't be drafted is a nice little nest egg for Hartman.
Money can solve that. Miami and Oklahoma had no business landing several highly-ranked players in the 2023 recruiting class, given how mediocre their on-field product was in 2022, but they bought them. If ND can outbid Auburn and Florida for Sam Hartman then there's no excuse for them to not buy Michael Pratt. Money isn't an issue.
I'm just worried about having an unproven QB making their first start in College Station. A&M has legit talent on defense, and if they can hire a quality HC, they could be dangerous. Although they're 6-4, they've lost 3 games by 7 points or less - all of them with their backup QB. If Weigman wasn't injured they probably would've won 2 of those 3 games.
I understand, but if you're Pratt....And ND offers you 2 million and Wash and Oregon offer you 1 million. Would you go to ND after what happened with Hartman this year....Or would you go to Wash or Oregon have a better chance to ball out and get drafted much higher. Also, it would be naive to think Wash or Oregon would come in that much lower...But you get my point.
This is a reason to move sooner rather than later on the OC decision.
