We also won games by 2 and 8 points so we were 12 points away from a 1-11 record.

This season is what bad coaching looks like. It will deteriorate from here.

When you've lost Ted, you've lost the entire narrative. It's over.

My thoughts, exactly. I hope that I'm wrong, but that's certainly what my assessment is of this season under Albin. I think our only hope is that President Sherman agrees and makes a command decision.

After Ted’s response on a couple of threads I not only agreed with him but dreamed of a firing….soon.

The "radio silence" really just seems to create a blank canvas for people to paint their own picture of what's going on. I don't think we know enough to say. And while I get that an AD has a public job and as a result they should expect to face public scrutiny, personally I try and avoid being publicly critical unless I feel like I have substantial information to go on. The absence of information doesn't actually strike me as information, in this case. And given what we know, I find the rush to criticize Cromer to be odd.

For instance, how do we know that Cromer and Albin didn't have a 4 hour private meeting in which she made it very clear that the standards for success weren't met, and that without improvement his contract won't be renewed? We know Albin made substantial changes to the coaching staff already. How do we know those weren't made at the insistence of Albin's boss?

It's also unclear to me what needs to be said publicly at this point. To conclude, because she hasn't made a public statement about the status of Albin's job that she "doesn't recognize it", "doesn't agree with it" or "doesn't plan to to do anything about it" leaves out a whole range of possibilities. There's a whole lot that goes on behind closed doors at Ohio University that the folks on bobcatattack.com don't know about. That doesn't mean those things aren't happening.

Lastly, I'd like to hear the case justifying a buyout of Albin.

Our football program hasn't won a MAC Championship. We lose money every year. This past season, we already paid two head coaches in Solich and Albin. Given the financial realities of higher education and mid major athletics, is it really worth 500k to accelerate a rebuild by one year when the most success we've ever achieved just loses us even more money? What's the upside vs. waiting a year and getting out of the Albin contract free of charge?

There's a reason Cromer put that clause in the contract. I really doubt it was to buy him out a year early.

BLSoS and I seem to be of similar mindsets related to this topic. What good does it do for Cromer to come out publicly and criticize the on-field performance of the football program this past season? Just to apparently appease some bobcatattack.com posters? Does ANYBODY on this message board really think that Cromer can be all smiles about how this season went?

If course, criticism of Albin and the team's performance from the AD are the types of conversations that one should prefer stay internal. Why would anyone as a Bobcat fan want to see that type of thing played out in the public? Makes no sense to me at all.

Bottom line - I believe Cromer has done a good job while in her position at OHIO, primarily because I have no evidence to tell me otherwise. She had the experience and qualifications for the job when she took it, and I haven't seen anything to the contrary.

If there are Bobcat fans who do think Cromer is doing poorly, I wonder if they thought she should have gotten the job in the first place. And if they didn't, I'd love to have them explain why they didn't like her being hired.

Yes, he did, and I think it was a positive gesture that fans appreciated.

Unfortunately, action was not taken until after Year 4.
 

BLSoS, you make way too much sense for 13.5 active BAers and they will have none of it, which includes never answering your questions. Who needs sense or solid information when you just know you're right?

This pretty much sums it up.

If you read the A.D.'s bio on ohiobobcats.com, her athletic accolades are
limited to what Boals and his players accomplished.

Everything else is administrative.

As I've posted before, if she was so well qualified, and doing such a great job at Arkansas why didn't she get A.D. job ?

When she was hired, there was more attention paid to her being O.U.'s first female A.D. and her administrative accomplishments at Arkansas and and Indiana,
after " a decade long tenure at the the NCAA national office" then any
"hands on experience" as "second in command" at Arkansas, when came to
actual athletics.

As far as Carlson, that was a good hire.
I just don't know if or how may offers he had to coach, and how the
whole process of hiring him played out.

How so? Boeh certainly wasn't afraid to spend money on facilities or coaches relative to peers. What cuts do you actually have knowledge about?