If you were an employer and you renegotiated an extension and a raise quite literally a few months prior, how would you feel? Go to your manager after a raise and tell them you decided you need more NOW.

If you're a new President, would you want to set the precedent that you're being forced into a new negotiation every few months? What you say he accomplished unprecedented in school history - came after he already accepted the new role. That's been made clear. So what are you still yapping about? That they didn't go back to the table a few weeks earlier, just because other people also got raises at the beginning of the season? His raise was coming. All he had to do was wait. Instead he took the first job offer, because he wasn't confident in waiting. We all agree he needed paid better than the 6th or whatever it was by the end of this season. What I do not agree with is you extend your extension mid-season when you're hardly killing it. That's what you're suggesting. That they role out a $1M salary after getting molly whopped at UK? Losing to Miami again? I absolutely do not fault anyone at OU for "shoving it to the back burner" while he was 4-3. Prove it on the field, then get your raise. He accepted a new job before he proved it on the field.

To keep suggesting they steadfastly would not negotiate with him is stupid. Because they did. Again, literally months prior.

The bottom line is that he could have stayed. He didn't. Onward and upward. Time to turn the page. [/QUOTE]
Just as him overplaying his argument does him no good, you overplaying yours does you no good. Yes, Albin renegotiated his contract "a few" months earlier, but only if you define "a few" as 18-22, since the last re-negotiation took place after the 2022 season. Most people would think "a few" means 2-3, not 18-22, so most would consider your post above to be false. If he got a raise after the 2023 season, it was because it was in the 2022 contract.

[QUOTE=Bobcats1212] John Hauser staying as DC while also getting promoted to associate head coach.

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.

At this point, I think we all know what happened - though the true behind the scenes we may never know. Albin underplayed his hand, took what most of us see as a lateral at best move, and a rebuilding lateral move at that to spite Julie (if we take what an Albin confidants burner account was saying the night and day preceding). Likely burned some coaches by accepting a new role before the championship game and now he’s left having to put something together by himself.

Couldn’t be more excited to put this behind us and never talk about it again. Like I said the moment it happened - we’re gonna be fine. We ARE fine. In fact, I think we came at pretty damn rosey.

It’s Albin that will have to answer a lot of questions.

Faanes to Charlotte with Timmy. Also really hope this article isn’t true. Says OU is slashing football operating budget.

https://footballscoop.com/news/sources-tim-albin-makes-ke...

Football scoop is generally spot on. Started 20 years ago by coaches and former coaches. Information there is usually spot on and from the bowels of an athletic department.

To lose Rudolph at Christmas!!?? oh the humanity!

Someone is very, very angry and peeling away in his 1980s Pontiac.