This looked a lot like the Lichtenberg era. That was a lot of bad football. The last two weeks have felt similar.

Lichtenberg could coach. He had nothing to work with.

He was forced upon her by Frank. She couldn't go against a "legend," particularly when she was/is hoping for a major donation from him.

He should have been named interim! As soon as he was hired I told my friends we just made a horrible mistake and it’s going to be Knorr 2.0. In fairness the program has been in a gradual decline for a few years and what it needed was a jolt. To make a multi year commitment was a horrible decision. OU could attract a high quality FCS coach or a major coordinator.

I don't know what this regime is going to be but one thing for sure this is cheapness in the extreme to not bring in a new staff.

Extremely sad, it took him all of 3 months to run this program into the ground.....To elevate this idiot to Head Coach was absurd but it right in line with the same history that Ohio has repeated far too frequently. When Grobe left for wake forest it was the same crap. Elevate the next loser on staff to destroy whatever was built before him.

Unfortunately it's four years.

So let me get this straight: Frank is gonna pay back OU a huge amount of money that he earned winning football games by turning the Ohio program around just to get Tim Albin a head coaching job?

I'm sorry I just don't buy that.

That’s some nerve to insert common sense and logic into it when we are having a pointless and irrational emotional meltdown here!

To have any chance, Albin needs to get rid of Collins. Ohio had only three second half possessions today, thanks to the signature Collins defense!

How's recruiting going to look with a guy who just lost to a lower-division team and has a four-year contract? (Who would want to come play here?!?)

You mean the MAC Championship Program that the former coach had going?

He left the cupboard bare.

Sorry, very few OHIO players recently are 1st team all MAC. There is a reason for that, whether players don't want to come to Athens or whether just poor recruiting there simply is very little talent to work with the last few seasons.

Just look back to the early Frank years and recall the names of our players, the teams had numerous highly skilled on the field. Not recently. And when was the last Spring where Spring football was full tilt with hard banging during the big scrimmage. All great athletes are MADE in the off season. OHIO has to water Spring down so as not to gamble on injuring the several who are important to the current teams.

The program did not go downhill since a new coach was named.

If the board had let may CLASSMATE remain on the board you would have all been hearing how far the football program had slipped in the last 4-5 seasons. Add to that no objective media telling you what's going on and you get MANY HERE concurring that the new guy is 100% at fault. (Personally, I'd have hired a hot shot high school coach and paid him $100 grand plus performance bonuses and maybe OHIO wouldn't be OH and Two and be stuck for the next four seasons--did anyone ask Burrows if he'd like the job?)