TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:HJS {l Wrote}:TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:BCMurt09 {l Wrote}:We're really about to hire Dennis fucking Gates aren't we
casting couch works both ways
this will be another failure of a hire and will send me back into my groundhog den both for this board and for donating to the school. uninspired and destined for failure. i'll be back to eat crow if i'm wrong - i don't expect that to be a problem
I'm not terribly certain that Gates is the hire yet (despite the Tweeter buzz). That said, I actually don't have a terrible objection to it.
We have spent the past searches that resulted in the hiring of consecutive coaches who were well-liked, respected, had a long of history of running successful programs, who cared about their players and worked their way up the ranks. Don and JC were universally considered "good guys" and they were effing horrible. I view Gates as a boom/bust type of candidate who could potentially be a homerun/lightning-in-a-bottle type. Or he could suck and fail miserably. But, if he busts... it isn't any different than what we have been dealing with from his the "safe" established predecessors.
I would have preferred someone from the A10, BE or Power 5. But, outside of that, I wanted to swing for the fences. Guys like Coen, Amaker or Hewitt were the worst way to go... Gates is pretty much the polar opposite of them.
except firing him also means likely firing the award winning Jr AD - which would take longer than simply firing a coach that's way over his head a year or two in
No matter who we hire, barring FBI investigation, the contract will be cost-prohibitive regarding termination in the first 4 years. A
As for Jocelyn, I don't think it is an issue. Kraft didn't go out and hire Jocelyn to be his deputy... Jarmond did. Kraft just inherited her after she failed to lang Kraft's job. The last thing Kraft is doing is hiring Dennis as some sort of favor for a pre-existing employee. My guess is that Jocelyn will start transitioning into a role in development or to another New England AD job or has some sort of info barrier built between mens and womens sports. Her role leading womens sports should have ZERO influence one whether Dennis is hired or not.
