Sparty fires Mel Tucker / hires Jonathan Smith

[Cuse181]

That program is a trainwreck, they are worse than Northwestern right now. Speaking of Northwestern, I hope everyone saw that they overcame a 31-10 4th quarter deficit and beat Minnesota last weekend. Made me laugh.

Anyway, will be interesting to see who goes into the portal and jumps off the sinking ship. Guessing they will end up settling with Tucker, he will litigate it as far as it can go and they will inevitably want to move on

If they're smart, they'll let tucker file his suit, push the initial court date into the off season for major sports and then pay him off.

 

[djorange1989]

I hope we at least kick the tires on OL / DTs.

He may not want to come here because of playing time with LeQuint here but boy would I like to bring Nathan Carter over.

 

[Symphony Steve]

Our friend Sean Lewis has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Sparty HC job:

Michigan State head coaching candidates: Mike Elko, Jonathan Smith, Lance Leipold among early names to watch

Who will Michigan State target as its next football coach?

247sports.com

 

[djorange1989]

Our friend Sean Lewis has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Sparty HC job:

Michigan State head coaching candidates: Mike Elko, Jonathan Smith, Lance Leipold among early names to watch

Who will Michigan State target as its next football coach?

247sports.com

I wouldn't mind getting Elko out of the conference, maybe Duke can go back to sucking. if Sean is brave enough to do it(and doesn't get offered this job) I could see him at Northwestern.

 

[CuseLegacy]

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Our friend Sean Lewis has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Sparty HC job:

Michigan State head coaching candidates: Mike Elko, Jonathan Smith, Lance Leipold among early names to watch

Who will Michigan State target as its next football coach?

247sports.com

So has Clawson.

 

[Crusty]

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So has Clawson.

Clawson is perfect for Sparty. I would like to see him out of the ACC.

 

[NYCCuse826]

This is going to get ugly.

 

[NYCCuse826]

 

[Cusefan95]

So...one of the things I've had experience with in my career is arbitration over employee terminations. And a key takeaway is that all that matters is making the termination stick -because the counsel for the employee is going to be very skilled at taking minimal facts, sometimes over multiple years - and assembling them in a way that make the company and many of the individuals involved in the termination (sometimes including me) look absolutely terrible. So I never got upset about being characterized as an unethical dope lacking in any managerial skill - because its just part of the process. If the termination stuck, we'd won and I could get over that character assassination fairly quickly.

The difference in cases like this is there's huge incentive for the terminated party to leak things to the public - so its not just one lone arbitrator who has heard it all before anyway hearing what a sleezeball the managers are - its the entire public. And not to put too fine a point on it - the public at large is incredibly gullible and stupid. Maybe MSU thought going in the inevitable bad PR Tucker was going to generate was less monetary value than just paying off the rest of his contract...now would be an excellent time for them to start to reconsider that calculus.

I remain convinced that Tucker is going to get paid the full value of his contract - this looked like a really flimsy case to me from the beginning that I wouldn't have been excited about taking to arbitration. The only thing in question is how bad will MSU look once this is all said and done.

 

[kmart128]

God reading her talk about Tucker contract and how much she loves money makes me sick to my stomach

 

[texascpa]

And this is why I wasn't ready to tear apart Mel like so many others were. I don't always "believe all women".

 

[texascpa]

God reading her talk about Tucker contract and how much she loves money makes me sick to my stomach

Where did you read that?

 

[Dick_in_MI]

Where did you read that?

I have not seen it in print, but it was on our local news here.

 

[NYCCuse826]

I have not seen it in print, but it was on our local news here.

To that point:

 

[Pyle]

Seems a lot of posts in here didn't age well. This trial by media stuff needs to stop.

 

[Cusefan95]

Seems a lot of posts in here didn't age well. This trial by media stuff needs to stop.

It won’t stop until companies and universities stop caving to the immediate outcry and actually do their jobs. In this case they should have held firm, told the media that matters like this take a lot of due diligence to investigate, there was a hearing in October and they would determine the right course of action after that. Then ignored the continued outcry, because people are basically toddlers - if you ignore them long enough they’ll get bored and go away.

Instead they caved to the pressure, made a hasty decision in hopes that would make everything better - but unsurprisingly, it did not.

You cannot be a leader if you lack a spine; we have a huge number of spineless “leaders” in the country right now. This is just another example of that.

 

[Cusester]

After reading through this thread Dino’s warts don’t look nearly as big as before Mel Tucker happened.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[FRANKIEFAN]

Boooo awful move by him to leave his alma mater for rape u.

 

[Frozen]

Boooo awful move by him to leave his alma mater for rape u.

It’s going to be very difficult to recruit to a school called Rape U.

 

[FRANKIEFAN]

That said does Oregon State even have a schedule for next year?

They’ve been really good the last couple seasons their players will likely end up on Big Ten teams next year regardless.

 

[texascpa]

That said does Oregon State even have a schedule for next year?

They’ve been really good the last couple seasons their players will likely end up on Big Ten teams next year regardless.

I believe they are finalizing or have finalized a scheduling agreement with the Mountain West for next year.

 

[SmilinBob]

Michigan State I'm sure is hoping that he'll bring his players with him and be a nice reload.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Trueblue25]

Loser for leaving his school to join that shanty