I could see Hauser going to Charlotte based on his close / personal connection with Albin..

If the administration offers Coach Hauser a huge contract that would be another knife in Coach Albins back when he was advocating to get a few of his assistants better pay and multi year deals. One more slap in the face for the National semifinalist Coach of the year and Two time MAC coach of the year and one of only five coaches to win ten games three consecutive seasons! Oh yeah you all keep thinking that the administration had zero to do with Coach Albin departing. Look at the awards this man has achieved the last few years and tell me he shouldn’t have been valued or appreciated. Congrats to Coach Smith and happy the job stayed in house! That is the only good decision this administrator has made the last several weeks.

From a career perspective, it makes more sense for Hauser to accept a decent raise in Athens (maybe new title: associate HC) where his D should have another stellar year in 2025 rather than chase a bigger pay bump but a frustrating couple of rebuilding years in Charlotte.

I suspect TA is wondering what he's gotten himself into.

Not dealing with an agent should not be a feather in her cap. When she departs for another job she will deal with agents. Guessing she had to deal with agents at Arkansas. If she didn’t want to deal with agents then she shouldn’t have been an AD.

This is like the 11th time you've made the exact same points. They've failed to persuade anybody here, and in fact, you actually seem to have done more harm than good, and people who were initially suspicious of Cromer's handling seem more inclined to point the finger towards Albin now.

My advice would be to give it up, my man. You clearly really like Tim Albin, and seem to have a personal relationship with him. Your posts here are not helping his reputation around here, and there's just not a very convincing narrative to support the fact that Cromer drove him out of town. I feel for the guy, because it seems pretty clear he left town without even accepting the best job he was offered, and took business personally. Feels an awful lot like he overplayed his hand here.

Personally, I'm pretty excited about Brian Smith and like that we've built a program with a next man up mentality, and infrastructure that feels likely to hold up across multiple stewards. I think a lot of folks agree, and that in the end Albin may regret this choice. That those close to him seem to have adopted a party line of "he was forced into this" leads me to believe he already may.

The bottom line is that he could have stayed. He didn't. Onward and upward. Time to turn the page. [/QUOTE]Print this on a tee shirt.

[QUOTE=Bobcat1996] OCF- would you want to stay with your employer if you were not valued? Would you want to continue working with someone who didn’t treat you with respect? If you started negotiations with your employer in the summer and kept being shoved to the back burner five months later after accomplishing something unprecedented in school history, how would you feel? Would you stay around?

John Hauser’s dog is not sick!

Great news for Ohio! Honestly, I would've taken this scenario in a second if you told me right after Tim Albin bolted.

Keep both your offensive and defensive minds in place and get a much younger head coach that the players seem to like.