Was coach albins family not supposed to celebrate Tim accomplishing everything he set out to do??? Also, super weird you follow Tori & are hating on her family. Also not Miss Albin… close friend :) but nice try lol. Get a life and stop being so obsessed with their family. Weirdo.

LC- pay no attention to B-Love. Coach Albin is in very rare company with only four other coaches winning 10 or more games in three consecutive seasons. No MAC coach in Coach Albins four years at Ohio has won more league regular season games. B-Love doesn't recognize greatness.

I hold no ill-will toward coach for leaving. He is free to do want he wants and I'll be rooting for him at Charlotte. I also do not question, nor have ever seriously questioned, the fact that the family dog was sick. But I don't buy that's the main reason he got off the bus. I also don't think that coach Albin intended for it to go down the way it did. I suspect that he intended to address the team in the morning but was notified by Charlotte of the leak. It had been leaked. One poster was already posting what he knew about it then on their own board. He didn't know how to handle it at that point and chose maybe one of the lesser of only bad options available to him.

I hope you have a nice day. I hope your friendship with coach and his family continues. But nobody is going to buy the dog story. They just aren't. Sorry. Even if you were inclined to accept it the location of the exit and where he was seen afterwards pretty much rule the dog story out. I think that if coach wants to keep the respect of Ohio's fans and his former players the best thing you can do is put the dog story to rest. Seriously, it is a insult to their intelligence at this point. That's my advice anyway.

So, what is your approach to retaining coaches? Negotiate a new contract with any coach after they have a decent season? You wanted a new contract negotiated after last year apparently. Well, we started this year 4-3. Had we finished 6-6 or even 7-5 would you still feel he deserved a new contract? 9-3 is a great year but he had already agreed to accept the offer at UNCC before the Miami game. I disagree this came back to burn Cromer. She can't be renegotiating a coach's contract every year. If that's what you think is preferable, then a coach could just as easily lose his or her job as expect a nice pay raise if they are successful.

Brooke Albin had a really interesting comment on Facebook yesterday:

"We were forced into this. We had no choice but to leave."

What do we make of this?

My god this lady is insufferable. Go away. We get it, you got a new gig in a new place. Go to Charlotte already. Such victim mentality for a family making a really nice living coaching football. Did she watch @Syracuse, @Kentucky, or @Miami? The entire defense quit in Lexington. My god, her husband was lucky to have a job after October, much less be offered an extension. It’s great, he won us a MAC Championship with a depleted roster in a depleted conference, but let’s not pretend we are nationally relevant or any further along than we were during the Solich years. Nobody forced him out, he just didn’t get an extension offer when he thought he deserved it - so he made his choice. What she won’t admit is that her family just left millions on the table with a bad business decision because they jumped on a lousy Charlotte job instead of waiting for a bigger P4 fish to catch. Congrats on Charlotte, go down, be successful, and let’s all move on. In this topic - I support Cromer 100% for not backing up the brinks truck for this guy. The MAC is so bad, we will be totally fine no matter which direction we go.

Double post sorry

Albin already was the highest paid university employee by a bit.

In fact, I’d venture to say he was the highest paid, non-owner, employee in Athens County history.

The truth as I have been telling you all along. The administration disrespected Coach Albin one too many times. See above. The agent wasn't permitted in the room. If you were not valued at your job and disrespected over and over, would you want to stay around in that environment. The administration will have a very tough time getting another person to win as many games as Coach Albin. Check back in four seasons and see if the Bobcats will have a MAC coach of the year twice, a coach who has won 10 games in three consecutive seasons and a head coach who was second to no one in wins in the conference the last four years. Besides all that the man is a great person. Name another head coach that volunteers to be timer for the MAC Swim Meet, attends soccer matches, shows up for volleyball and baseball games. He also encouraged his players to attend these events. The man was a great ambassador for Ohio University. If a coach accomplished all that Coach Albin accomplished, you would think that the administration would be elated and he would be rewarded. The man wasn't all about money either as evidenced by his sixth highest rated pay in the conference. Look at other universities in the league. Toledo rewarded Candle and Miami rewarded Martin. Ohio failed to reward Coach Albin. It is amazing that his salary rate was below the first year coach in Western Michigan who had a five year deal. He was paid less than the new coach at Buffalo. The truth is that the administration just allowed an outstanding individual and great coach to walk out the door.

Check back in 3-4 years B-Love of Sense of Shame. I will be eager to listen to some more of your nonsense.

You've got the wrong Brooke Albin. Tim's wife is not from West Va. and is not a chemical engineer.

If you actually read the post I was agreeing with, you would learn it was about eliminating the bush league cowboy hats and boots and other ridiculous sideline antics of our strength and conditioning folks early that season. And, yes, that stuff disappeared real quick. No doubt our AD made that call. Did she disrespect Tim by telling him his sideline looked like a Buffalo Bill Cowboy Show?