850k < 1.3M

Who signed for $1.3M?

Albin’s contract at UNCC is $500K base. $900K total.

https://www.agent49.net/tim-albin-contract-details-with-c... /

Lots going on the normal eyes don’t see

Translation: I know something the rest of you don't but want to know.

Imagine withholding and wielding inside info to MAC football as if it were national secrets.

That would be…sad.


“I know what’s being built in front of that Target…but I won’t tell you…Beg me for the info!…but here’s a hint… they serve orange chicken!”

Inside sources: Hand dryers have been replaced with brown paper napkins at Ohio.

With the hand dryers we have now, napkins are an upgrade. (Dyson dryers excluded of course)

Inside sources: No more hand towels. Must steal them from opponents like Javon Hagan.

ROFL. Best comment of the day.

We offered Albin over a million a year and paid a first time head coach Smith well more than Albin was previously making at OU. I think suspicions that Albin is the source are most likely correct.

In comparison, he’s going to a school that is paying him less than the last guy and giving him less money for assistants. He’s also a lot less likely to hit performance bonuses there, and is now recruiting in-state vs Bill Belichick. Best of luck.

Speaking as someone that has covered D1 sports in the Big 10, A10, MAC, MAAC, Summit League and lower levels beneath D1 including D3 and NAIA, coaches sometimes speak anonymously as sources when they're on the way out.

It's highly likely that Albin was discontent with his situation at Ohio and wanted to throw one final jab to justify his decision. If not, someone close to him probably did so based on information he was telling them. It's pretty self-explanatory based on the details getting leaked about what led to him leaving.

How else would the site know about Ohio slashing their budget? It's not exactly like OU is relevant enough in the college football world that many people outside of Bobcats fans would care.

People connected with Ohio University aren't going out of their way to trash the program. This is pretty cut and dry. I say this once again as someone that has been connected to several D1 head coaches in football and basketball. Other plausible sources could be coaches/administrators at rival MAC schools in the know but I'd have to question their intent and intel in this type of situation.

And if a site would post information from questionable sources, I would need to figure out their motivations before publishing.

So I'm not saying it is Tim Albin 100% but more likely than not, the source is connected to him in some capacity because anyone with that level of knowledge of OU's budget intentions working at Ohio likely wouldn't be speaking to any websites about it.

I agree, I think we can smell where the stink is coming from.

Regardless, while I can see a small kernel of this being true, I sincerely doubt that was what was laid out.

What I do think may have happened was perhaps a tense and salty negotiation - based on a lot of brand new accounts pointing every finger back at OU... Team Tim went straight to we need $1M a year to stay (which is odd cause he didn't get $1M elsewhere, so put another egg into the He Overplayed His Hand Bucket), but Julie and Lori going, Ohio University does not have $1M to give... (bc we really don't)... if we give you, Tim, $1M dollars we need to find $200-300K from somewhere else. That is the simple truth of where we are as an athletic department.

And THAT is the "operating budget being slashed".

I think it's pretty clear, but paying the new guy $150K more than the last guy doesn't read GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE to me. Though I do suspect they're gonna have to play a shell game with some money, because we really just don't have a lot of it.