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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Quote Originally Posted by tenacious_dog View Post
    To me, Mike White is the ONLY coach that has left Tech for the right kind of job with the right kind of circumstances. Everyone else has gone to a job with baggage to go with the paycheck.
    Was White also the only one to turn down Cartel offers before finally accepting one a year or two later?

    It seems like every other head coach that left Tech for their "dream job" didn't have a happy ending.
    - Russo... fired by Washington after 4 years
    - Eagles... fired by Auburn after 5 years
    - Wooldridge... fired by Kansas State after 6 years (after asst. in NBA)
    - Crowton... fired by BYU after 4 years (after asst. in NFL)
    - Budke... died in plane crash recruiting for Oklahoma State
    - Dooley... fired by Tennessee after 3 years
    - Dykes... fired by Cal after 4 years
    - Goff... fired by Bama after 1 year

    White's done well, but then again, he's only been at UF 2 years, and he turned down K-State, Mizzou, and Tennessee in previous years.

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Auburn was not Eagles' dream job. He would have stayed at Tech for much less than Auburn paid, but was dissed by our MBB hating president.

    Lumping a WBB coach in this discussion is silly, but no mention of Mulkey?

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Good point...she was "this close" to being a Head Coach here. About 80% of the way there, I'd say.

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Quote Originally Posted by PawDawg View Post
    Auburn was not Eagles' dream job. He would have stayed at Tech for much less than Auburn paid, but was dissed by our MBB hating president.

    Lumping a WBB coach in this discussion is silly, but no mention of Mulkey?
    If Tech was Eagles' dream job, he would never have left for a bad SEC job, for what? An extra $25K?

    And Mulkey was never our head coach.

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Quote Originally Posted by Dawg06 View Post
    If Tech was Eagles' dream job, he would never have left for a bad SEC job, for what? An extra $25K?

    And Mulkey was never our head coach.
    He didn't leave for the extra money. He left because our President didn't care. Is that a more understandable way to put it?

    Mulkey was the heir and at the time, had as much say as Leon.

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Quote Originally Posted by Dawg06 View Post
    If Tech was Eagles' dream job, he would never have left for a bad SEC job, for what? An extra $25K?
    Eagles made a presentation to Reneau that included a very modest salary increase for himself - less than 25K - and very modest increases for two of his assistants to bring their salaries up to what the Lady Techster assistants were making - 40K a year. Then a slight increase in the recruiting budget - around 10K a year. Reneau said no. He didn't even counter. He just said no.

    Eagles then left for the Auburn job which paid 300K a year. I always assumed Eagles was leaving no matter what. Then word started to filter out in the 90s around the time Wooldridge was hired that Eagles had gone to Reneau with a plan. I didn't find out until a former member of our Athletic Council and I were on a flight together to Houston the night before the Texas A&M football game in 1998. Between that and the rain-soaked game it made for very long weekend.

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Trust me. Paw Dawg and Historian are right on the money with this one!!!

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Of course they are. They lived it unlike the last compiler.
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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Speaking of Goff his Alabama paycheck comes in handy. Purdue's rather clever.
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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Quote Originally Posted by Dawgpix View Post
    Speaking of Goff his Alabama paycheck comes in handy. Purdue's rather clever.
    nlulm offered him the HC spot as a volunteer job, but he turned it down.

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Quote Originally Posted by Dawgpix View Post
    Of course they are. They lived it unlike the last compiler.

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Quote Originally Posted by PawDawg View Post
    He didn't leave for the extra money. He left because our President didn't care. Is that a more understandable way to put it?

    Mulkey was the heir and at the time, had as much say as Leon.
    My point remains the same regardless of circumstances: He left Tech for a "better" job and got fired after a short stint. That's not debatable. It's fact. Similar story for almost every coach who's left success at Tech for a "better" job except for White thus far.

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Quote Originally Posted by Dawg06 View Post
    He left Tech for a "better" job and got fired after a short stint.
    No he did NOT leave for a better job. Auburn was not a better job. He left because our President treated him like crap. Not sure why you refuse to see the difference. TJE is the ONLY coach who ever loved Tech enough to overlook the lure of money and fame. He would have been a career coach had D.R. not been so obtuse.

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Quote Originally Posted by PawDawg View Post
    No he did NOT leave for a better job. Auburn was not a better job. He left because our President treated him like crap. Not sure why you refuse to see the difference. TJE is the ONLY coach who ever loved Tech enough to overlook the lure of money and fame. He would have been a career coach had D.R. not been so obtuse.
    Did you not see I put "dream job" and "better" in quotes each time?

    That's kinda my point. Those jobs obviously didn't turn out to be "better" because they couldn't win there and thus couldn't hold onto them.

    You're playing semantics and know exactly what I'm saying. He left for more money. You like that "better?" Failed. And got fired after a brief stint. Just like just about all of them. Again those facts regarding the original premise of my post are not debatable. In general our successful coaches have been pretty unsuccessful after leaving Tech.

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    Re: Goff Gone from Bama

    Eagles remains the only exception. At the time Auburn could pay more, but it was NOT a better job or even a dream job of any decent coach.

    The move by Reneau set our MBB program back 20 years and we are still struggling.

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