wailukuwarriorfan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 9:33 pm
What bothers me is that the AD did not appear to have performed his due diligence in asking the question, “why did ASU pay Graham $12.8MM to leave early?” Does that not raise any red flags for you? A little due diligence can provide a lot of clarity on why they paid him over $12MM to leave.
If Dabbo Sweeney were asked to leave, they'd have to pay him $40MM. Good coaches get paid well. When those previously awesome coaches produce mediocre results, they are asked to leave. ASU is still mediocre. Some, as in the case of Scott Frost, are asked to take a pay cut. Some, like Chris Petersen, step down. 41 coaches have been paid to leave in the past three years alone. Do you seriously believe that Matlin was unaware that Graham was unemployed for no reason?
It sucks to lose. We had a tough couple of seasons. Let's try to move forward. Coach is pretty good. His record speaks for itself. We are gifted with local pride in football...not in cash. It doesn't make sense to divorce the coach one way or another, so suck it up. Let coach right the course. If coach gets things on track, we say bye bye like we did with Tomey, Jones, and Rolovich. If not...we are still better off than we were with Von Appen and Chow...the last two 'saviors' we hired to 'save' the program after we fired those who had been esteemed and awesome coaches at Hawaii but came up short later on.
Hawaii should not think so short term in so much as most of the fat cats in college football have. We simply aren't that rich. We aren't giant killers. Sure, we easily cut down ASU in June Jones waning years, but TG was not the head coach at ASU at the time. TG did much better than his predecessor at ASU, but the money guys expected much more. After the divorce, ASU still hasn't ascended the Pac12 ladder...after many years. They are still mediocre.