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Ford was the only coach offered!

tornado said:
hmm..you cite my response to your making an issue of it??
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I never made an issue. My original post said this:

According to Cross:

Geno Ford was the only coach offered the BU job!

Very interesting to hear.

How is that making something an issue. I posted a direct quote?
 
tornado said:
then you are calling KW, DR, and several other journalists liars??
(using your technique..;))
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Maybe they were just wrong. After all papers, tv, blogs, etc. all rely on "informants" or connections. Sometimes they are wrong.

Doesn't mean they lied.
 
I actually find it a little odd that he felt he needed to say it.

Just to let us know that this was guy that was the "perfect" fit?

In any event I don't care...I'm all for moving on as well. congrats to Geno..

now lets get Keno to Missouri State...and if Marshall leaves there has to be a coach Reno somehwere:D
 
amckillip said:
I really like Cross, I genuinely do. But I think he is splitting hairs on this one and he may end up with egg on his face. He may not have 'offered' meaning a contract put in front of someone, but I find it VERY hard to believe he did not say to at least Jeter 'if BU were to offer you XXX...' etc. In my experience negotiating job offers, I didn't get an offical offer until the negotiation was done. I hope Cross isn't using a technicallity to save face, if so, it could haunt him (hopefully not).
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Once again, I agree with you. I have no doubt that Cross is an intelligent person, but his use of words during this situation is very curious. "Offered" in this case, and "great coach" in other instances, leaves the door open for different interpretations. Certainly his statements could have been worded much better. jmho
 
Beninator said:
Once again, I agree with you. I have no doubt that Cross is an intelligent person, but his use of words during this situation is very curious. "Offered" in this case, and "great coach" in other instances, leaves the door open for different interpretations. Certainly his statements could have been worded much better. jmho
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Yeah, what does he know, he only has a PHD and has been an athletic director for a while.... I think he knows what hes doing.

To those questioning: You are not offered a job until you talk strict financial aspects. Just because you are interviewed doesnt mean you were offered the job. Also, if a coach expressed no interest, how could he turn down a job that he was "offered" if he expressed no interest?! :?
 
jrish12 said:
Yeah, what does he know, he only has a PHD and has been an athletic director for a while.... I think he knows what hes doing.

To those questioning: You are not offered a job until you talk strict financial aspects. Just because you are interviewed doesnt mean you were offered the job. Also, if a coach expressed no interest, how could he turn down a job that he was "offered" if he expressed no interest?! :?
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Agreed.....bottom line, we have our man now. Let's get behind him and support him as he begins rebuilding the program.
 
jrish12 said:
Yeah, what does he know, he only has a PHD and has been an athletic director for a while.... I think he knows what hes doing.

To those questioning: You are not offered a job until you talk strict financial aspects. Just because you are interviewed doesnt mean you were offered the job. Also, if a coach expressed no interest, how could he turn down a job that he was "offered" if he expressed no interest?! :?
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PHD aside, Dr Cross needs to work on the public statements that he releases!
The wording in those statements were poor and open to multiple interpretations! Much more generic terms could have been used to alleviate negative interpretations.
 
Beninator said:
PHD aside, Dr Cross needs to work on the public statements that he releases!
The wording in those statements were poor and open to multiple interpretations! Much more generic terms could have been used to alleviate negative interpretations.
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Aren't generic terms often open to multiple interpretations?

You guys have gotta start taking things a little less seriously. Cross says he is the only guy - he is the only guy. The only other things that we have to go on are some blurbs written about some coaches (Sutton and Jeter) that WERE NOT offerred, who now may need to save a little face with their admin, fans, and team. If I'm them...I'd "withdraw" every single time I don't get offerred a better gig.

The guy says they only offerred one guy...that doesn't seem open to interpretation.
 
Hard to make an offer when you hear from the get go, thanks but no thanks! Come on guys stop splitting hairs and use some common sense on what really happened. Of course there is a bit of spin in all of this and I'd be disappointed if there was not. You can't tell me that the admin is not capable of spinning and I have to say they are pretty good at it. They messed up on the PR game a bit and now are coming back to life. This has all been calculated. Now for all this to die down by this time next year Geno Ford just needs to win. I'm pulling for the guy!
 
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