A Couple Updates on Texas Football

“As the Division I membership has supported legislative initiatives to restrict the off-campus recruiting activities of the head football coach, this designation has provided a distinct recruiting advantage.”

If it provides that much of an advantage, then everyone should do it. Of course, there are pro’s and con’s to naming a HCIW. This just unnecessarily adds to the con’s.

So make the title unofficial. And then send the NCAA a shit sandwich. If they don’t hammer USC we should secede from the union.

I see this is being fairly easily treated.

Will – You are no longer the HCIW. You are now the Grand Poobah Of Recruiting Who May One Day Be Head Coach.

The NCAA is so fucking tired.

Uh huh. These guys are a racket.

What a fucking. So in order to remove a legal, yet possible advantage, the NCAA deems it prudent to place Texas, et al, at a clear disadvantage.
Yep, that sounds par for the course.
Morons.

Which programs besides Texas have done this anyway?

Nice to see the NCAA can move so quickly on something as stupid as this, yet still hasn’t gotten around to punishing USC for shit that happened 6 or 7 years ago with Reggie Bush..

Seminoles for one.

Maryland is the only other program that currently has a HCIW. The Big fucking East proposed this rule. Did Big Red Autos send a few cars to the Big East Conference offices?

Texas and Maryland are the current D-1 schools with Head Coach Designates.

One complaint from the Big East turns into NCAA-wide legislation? Hmmm …

Yeah, obviously this is bullshit, but it’s bullshit that we shouldn’t even sweat. Rewrite Muschamp’s contract immediately to officially remove the title. Keep everything else the same. Everyone knows he’s the next head coach as of right now, so the net effect is that the NCAA did jack shit as usual.

Should just pay players, the NCAA recommended form of gaining an advantage over yoru competition.

Rewriting Muschamp’s contract is easy, but we’re typically pretty faggoty when it comes to NCAA rules. Shit, we’ve probably already self-reported ourselves.

It’s gonna be tough to replace Payne’s production.

Well, calling Muschamp a Head-Coach-In-Waiting is MUCH worse than providing players with money/cars/pussy, so I can kinda see their point.

I think this isn’t carved in stone yet, and is currently in a 60-day window for amendments. Our concerns have already been raised. From the NCAA DIVISION I PUBLICATION OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION:
06/29/09: Big East Conference: Submitted for consideration.
09/02/09: Football Issues Committee: Recommends approval.
The committee supports the proposal. The committee noted that such coaches, once publicly designated, are allowed to recruit in a manner representative of a head coach and speak on behalf of the football program as a head coach — not just an assistant coach.
09/22/09: Recruiting and Athletics Personnel Issues Cabinet: Recommends defeat.
The cabinet opposes the proposal. The cabinet noted that the designation of an assistant coach as the next head coach may occur several years prior to the departure of the current head coach, which may prohibit assistant coaches from participating in off-campus recruiting activities during the spring evaluation period for an extended period of time and may result in other unintended consequences.

Is the HCIW language actually in the contract? I’m curious since there could be a conflict with the state employee hiring rules – the ones that require X days of public notice of the opening so that schlubs like you and I can apply for Mack’s job. If not, then it’s an unofficial title that can be removed, and would seem to be rendered a moot issue.

Myles Brand is pathetic – seek relevance by identifying and solving real problems.

Crap – well I guess i look like a dumbass now.

Who is carrying on for the NCAA now?

Uh, yeah, didn’t know that either.

Interim exec is Jim Isch. Former Hawg.

Blake – Give us some scoop on this Hawg In Charge.

“It’s gonna be tough to replace Payne’s production.”

In the words of the great Abe Lemmons, “son, you caught one more pass than a dead man”.

I think this isn’t carved in stone yet, and is currently in a 60-day window for amendments. Our concerns have already been raised

It was adopted in January and went into effect immediately.

“. . . this designation has provided a distinct recruiting advantage. "

Two things:

1) How does the designation itself provide a distinct recruiting advantage separate and apart from more traditional indications of long-term stability? And if you can articulate such an advantage (you can’t), how is such an advantage unfair (assuming, as we must, that only unfair advantages should be eliminated)?

2) Even making the wild assumptions that there is an advantage and that it is unfair, how is this different than other advantages (e.g., having a school in a vibrant city such as Austin vs. Ames or Lincoln or Lubbock) that would never be legislated against?

This is simply the latest in a long line of examples of the NCAA showing itself to incredibly incompetent with almost exclusively misplaced priorities.

1) You can sell continuity, which can be a comforting factor to a recruit. But there’s nothing that prevents other teams from designating their own HCIW and doing the same thing. .

2) Excellent point.

I can’t envision any valid argument that a team being proactive about their succession plan somehow constitutes an unfair advantage. But, when you’re dealing with an arbitrary and meddlesome institution like the NCAA, this is what passes for well-reasoned policy. It makes about as much sense as most of their decisions.

Calipari will soon have forfeited 2 final fours, but the NCCA sees no problem in Kentucky hiring him. The same Kentucky whose basketball program’s history is as riddled with NCAA infractions as it is with championships. Yet the NCAA can make a ridiculous rule about HCIW in a couple of months.

My guess is this is less about changing a growing problem in recruiting as it is trying a labyrinthine way of discouraging schools from adopting the process of HCIW in order to get around a currently unwritten college version of the Rooney Rule.

And if that’s a mysterious sentence, it’s because the NCAA is a mysterious organization. They’d have fit right in during Byzantium circa 700 a.d.

I’m pretty sure a writer flat out made up that supposed Rooney Rule loophole. It’s a pretty ridiculous idea.

let us be sure this is understood. If this rule takes effect or has taken effect and the HCIW does not get HCJob :is the reason for his failed promotion his failure to properly recruit . Sorry this whole legal episode is too much to handle.

“It’s a pretty ridiculous idea.”

Which is why the NCAA is probably seriously considering it. It’s precisely the kind of ruling that the NCAA loves, which is 100% window dressing and 0% relevant to anything of import.

While I loathe the NCAA I detest them just slightly more than the non-binding “Head Coach in Waiting” title. Heck while I’m at it you can throw in the “Assistant Head Coach” title too. In this case I’ll side with the NCAA to push teams to stop using bullshit titles. Is there a recruiting advantage? No advantage that can be supported by a rational argument.

I rue the day when schools start having Co-HC’s. Laugh now but it will happen someday.

SUCK IT NCAA!

Other gaps in logic…..

As the SEC has supported legislative initiatives to restrict insider trader, being a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal has provided a distinct investing advantage. This proposal would eliminate that advantage by mandating that WSJ subscribers adhere to all legislation applicable to insider trading.

So what is the status of the Reggie Bush investigation? Is that still under investigation or has the case been closed? I have heard nothing about anything closely resembling sanctions or finality. Absolutely a worthless piece of shit organization.

Future recruiting phone calls:

“Hey, Demosthenes, it’s me, Will. I’m coming through Duncanville next week, and would like to meet with you and your folks. Can y’all come by the field house?”

“No, I can’t come by your house. It’s that NCAA rule- since I’m going to be head coachat Texas soon, I am covered by the same rules as Mack.”

“Yeah, well Brent isn’t going to be a head coach, unless it’s at some crappy school. That’s why he can come by your house when he likes. If you want to play for him, commit to Arkansas State. I’m going to be the head coach at Texas for a very long time, and that’s why we have to meet at the field house.”

“Great. See you then.”

We should establish a triumvirate.

Muschamp is now our “Defensive Coordinator With Benefits”

Gene Chizik is Head Coach Who Gets You Paid.

Why not go the other way.

Mack Brown is now the Associate Coach in Charge of Offense Defense and Special Teams Administration and Coordination, and Muschamp becomes Vice President of Football Operations, and Associate Administrator of Coordination in Waiting.

Let em both go to everyones house as much as they want until the next rule committee session.

THAT would be subverting the spirit of the rule, naming a HCIW is not.

We must be very careful to adhere to this new rule, lest the NCAA punish us ever so severely. They are harsh overlords, and we must be mindful of their mandates and stipulations.