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Taking an overall record is the same as taking a company's balance sheet for the past 10 years. It quite possibly could equal zero or negative. That doesn't mean the company isn't performing well or making a profit for most of those years. The guy took over a program that had seen two winning seasons in 25 years, and has lead them to 4 winning seasons in the past 7. He took a team that had never been in the D-II playoffs and coached them to the championship game, going on the road beating teams that just don't lose at home.

The same reason we haven't heard about anyone, they have a very tight grip on information. The only news we've gotten is the leak about Loeffler. All the Winters stuff has come straight from Detroit. Just deal, we will hear something this week.

It's the worst team, its not the worst job. You don't have to fundraise for facilities. You have great connections for apparel changes. You have huge interest from big dollar donors. What Ianello messed up on was taking the "no fundraising necessary" idea and applying it to building a fan base. His lack of connecting with people his first year here (by the second its too late) killed him while recruiting because the rumor had filtered out that he was not a people person. That is why they already have the "meet and great" set up and you will likely see this coach tweeting more and having more fan events during the year.

Ok, based off the recent articles posted on this site we know that Winters hasn't actually interviewed with Akron yet (may not?) So we know that today would be the first day he could interview in person. We know that Loeffler has impressed the administration. So a decision could be made tomorrow and an announcement later the same day. However, if Winters is the hire, I would not expect an announcement on that until December 22, which would be Thursday. Why? Because as we all know, December 22 is the first day of winter.

I think a lot of people noticed him which is why he won awards. There is a bid difference between getting noticed and hired. Not too many black coaches were getting hired when Winters was on the job market after the Owens era. The color of a coaches skin matters because it matter to older donors who grew up in a different time. Things are different now, but nine years ago they weren't like they are now. I figured we'd see a response like this. Yep, the views in this country have changed incredibly since 2004 Actually they have skip, why don't you go look at the numbers (I don't have the time).

Cap, that example is 45 bad decisions.

The Sunday thing doesn't matter, school is done so they are just trying to finish up ASAP so kids can go home

Ragin Cajuns ranked 120 at the start of the year, just pulled off a huge bowl win tonight. We can only hope for that kind of turn around.

Just saying it's a possibility.

I coined the phrase, "The Graveyard of Coaches" a couple of years ago. Not exactly true today, but it was then. Dennison never sniffed even a 1AA job....Faust, enough said....Ownes, Ashland. It deserved the phrase. Howevere, Brookhart and now Coach I are in D-1A programs. No longer the graveyard in my mind, but still not the best of career choices. The funeral home of coaches? You either end up in the ground or go about your life with just a little bit of emotional distress and some time missing.

I really don't get where anyone can call his performance "mediocrity". Because the team stunk when he got there and it took him time to win? Zach if this saddens you so much, don't be a fan anymore. We all want you to be happy.

Interesting quote in there....

That is fully likely, but "being too late" isn't something that should be in a new coaches vocabulary. Besides the fact he doesn't need "release papers". He is a red shirt junior, that means he likely graduated or will soon. He can transfer to any school that doesn't have a graduate program that Akron offers and play for one season. No release necessary.

I don't see it being a "time management" issue if they go in a different direction. What would the time have accomplished on a recruiting stand point? We barely have in-roads on anyone anyway. The fact that everything is pointing towards Winters is why I doubt it will be him, it's logical, our program has been anything but logical for as long as I can remember. I won't be upset if it is Winters, it would be a good choice. But I won't be shocked at all if it isn't.

I like that analogy better than my own. I thought the football team budget management question was related to comparing the experience of the various candidates for the UA head coaching position. Which of the current candidates has more experience as a head coach at any level managing a team budget of any level? A director of football operations. That is who handles the team budget. A Head coach rarely touches that, its up to the AD and the operations personnel. He may say he wants to spend on things, but he isn't in charge of the money.

Awful lot of people assuming that Paul Winters is the one getting hired.

That's too easy... But seriously it was just a bad comparison. You look for skill sets, Wal-Mart would hire someone with management experience regardless of what level. Why? Because all the tasks there are specialized. So a mom&pop manager had to do everything, where at Wal-Mart they would only have to manage people who are doing the tasks they used to do. Perhaps a better comparison would have been, does Summa hire a Dr. that runs a clinic in Moosehead to run City Hospital? Heck nah.

If anyone wants it.... ABJ Sports Editor Ron Ledgard rledgard@thebeaconjournal.com

Yes they would, in a heartbeat. Especially if that person already had a degree. Why? Because the person already knows how to hire people and manage them. The interesting thing about places with bigger budgets, they hire people to handle counting the larger pile of beans.

That would not only require him to lift a finger, but actually use it to push something. I imagine his article research goes something like this? "Siri!.....How is the Akron coaching search going" ".....nothing reported in last 3 days, here is most commonly read article" *click* copy....*click* paste "And done!"

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Yes and his shoulders look more like the shoulders from the silhouette. CONAN O'BRIEN is our new coach!!!!!!!!!!!! GO COCO GO!!!

Todd Porter is @$###%#$@#@# thief....Coaching Search.Com's Pete Rousell This article was posted earlier today, before Todd the news mod "crafted" his.

Well I also hit the bing (which I don't recommend to younger Zips nationals to do until they are in college) and the bing hit led me to the same conclusion.

I never realized Steven Segal was an Akron fan/alum.