ZachTheZip

No way Ole Miss wins any QB battle where Ianello isn't involved. It's like thinking Bryan Hipsher would start at any basketball program where his dad wasn't the head coach. Either Nicely is the QB in 2012, and we run the spread. Or some new JUCO is our QB. Or this guy. We seem to be forgetting about Kyle Pohl. He was rather highly rated coming out of high school. 3-stars, I believe. Ohio North-South All-Star Game participant. Yes. Point is, we have options at QB. We just chose not to use them because the coach sure liked playing favorites.

No way Ole Miss wins any QB battle where Ianello isn't involved. It's like thinking Bryan Hipsher would start at any basketball program where his dad wasn't the head coach. Either Nicely is the QB in 2012, and we run the spread. Or some new JUCO is our QB. Or this guy.

It probably comes down to who is willing to pay more.

This season we were easily the youngest team in the country. Most of our contributing players are returning.

Footballscoop.com - Akron: Akron is still interviewing candidates. We hear UCLA interim head coach / offensive coordinator will interview next week. That would be Mike Johnson. It also means we won't hear anything until late next week, at best.

I'm pretty sure that next week doesn't have two Tuesdays in it.

Kansas: Florida offensive coordinator Charlie Weis has accepted the head coaching job. I am told that Weis has already contacted former Akron head coach Rob Ianello about an assistant coaching position. From coachingsearch.com Ianello is getting looks from the BCS. He may well be employed at another university before we can find a replacement. P.S.: Thanks for the tip, ZN.O poster.

I don't think the candidates with current jobs would appreciate being on an announced short list. Either way we need to move faster as we are getting passed every day in the coaching carousel. I strongly disagree. It's better to wait a few days or weeks to make the right hire than to be hasty and get the wrong person. The former is the only way to break the vicious cycle whereas the latter costs us years and a lot of money. The wise thing to do is be patient and make the right move whether that be days or a couple weeks from now. In the short-term, this program is not going to be very good regardless of what kind of class is brought in this year. But what if we're waiting only because of a technicality? We can't really talk to Winters until he is done coaching. But what if, in the mean time, we're just twiddling our thumbs waiting for him to finish his season and not seriously looking at any candidates? What if we're not making a full effort to evaluate other candidates during the time we're forced to wait?

The coach from ISU.

Another spin of the rumor mill produced the name Trent Miles, head coach at Indiana State.

Here's a rumor for you: we may have looked at Tim Beck, Nebraska's Offensive Coordinator.

He's setting his sights way higher than Akron.

Speaking of which,I wonder how long Wistrcill will be around after a new coach is hired? Probably through the end of the academic year. The AD coaching carousel usually happens in the summer months unless somebody gets fired mid-season for a scandal.

Danny Rocco was just announced as the head coach of the Richmond Spiders.

Joe Moorhead is interviewing for the Fordham job today. Are we really competing with Fordham for football coaches now?

Donations from people who want to see this program succeed. Why do you believe that the athletic department is a closed system that can only spend what it makes in ticket sales? LOL Other peoples money Because I can read the budgets that have been posted on this site and know that Akron is not awash in cash. You made your thoughts known and I disagree. It's not the end of the world. I just do not think that Akron is going to pay someone $120K more as a head coach than we did for the iCoach AND pay for a solid group of assistant coaches to go along with them. The Assistants are the key to any staff so if you are going to break the bank then do it for the top 3-4 assistants. Akron will pay somewhere in the 425K range plus incentives and should have a salary pool of around $850K for the assistants if we are going to be a player. You get the right coach and the big donors will pay. They want a return on their investment (stadium naming rights). But I can see where you're coming from if we're sticking to hiring someone like Paul Winters or Joe Moorhead. That won't get the money flowing.

Other than Walt Harris, has any D1-A coach ever been fired 2 years into a 5-year contract? Turner Gill (Kansas); Larry Porter (Memphis)

About Polian and Ianello working together at Notre Dame, Rivals gives you a direct comparison between the two. You can compare the recruits each brought in when working under the exact same circumstances. It's rare that you can make a direct comparison like that.

coachingsearch.com mentions an intriguing name. Akron: The administration has hired Collegiate Sports Associates to help with the search. Keep an eye on Stanford special teams coordinator / recruiting coordinator Brian Polian.

Apparently the coaching staff really was too stupid or arrogant to know that this was coming. Maybe both. http://azstarnet.com/sports/greg-hansen-ua...20a8c6aa1b.html "Also losing his job this week was Desert Swarm linebacker Charlie Camp, who was pushed out when Akron fired coach Rob Ianello, a UA assistant coach from 1993 to 2002. 'We were blindsided,' Camp said Thursday. 'We got two years, and they fired everybody. It's a crazy business.'" Really? Blindsided? Was everyone on the staff so arrogant that they thought they could continue sending the program into a nosedive without facing the consequences?

Donations from people who want to see this program succeed. Why do you believe that the athletic department is a closed system that can only spend what it makes in ticket sales?

If there's any recruit that we should be focusing on keeping, it's this guy here. Seth Cunningham's brother should also be a priority. I don't know enough about the others. In fact, I only know about two more. If we have nine recruits, five of them are not the kind that get listed to recruiting services.

FAU: Carl Pelini's agreement is five years with base pay of $450,000 per. Pelini's incentives are largely based off of season ticket sales (he can earn a maximum of $200k per year if they sell 24,000 season tickets, $100k if they sell 12,000). He also has some smaller bonus opportunities tied to bowl games ($20k non-BCS, $50k BCS) and winning the conference championship ($20k). - from Footballscoop.com That's the same base salary we need to offer, at a minimum. I also really love the idea of tying bonuses to season ticket sales. It forces the coach to go out and sell his program to the community.

Jeez, I hope not. Interesting information on what Elton thinks Winters makes at Wayne St. If we can't offer $450k to whoever we hire, we'll be behind the curve from the start. Since we hired Ianello, the average MAC coaching salary has gone beyond what we paid him. And it sends a bad message if we aren't willing to pay at least the conference average, and not even 1/3rd of what the average FBS coach makes.

The MAC changed the contracts with the bowls this past season. Schools no longer lose money. The bowl expenses are now covered separately from the payouts. And at the same time the schools like Akron, who are sitting at home, do get money from the conference for bowls. The payout is split 50-50 between the participating bowl and the conference, who then splits the payout again between the rest of the conference members. So Akron gets 1/24th of every MAC bowl payout.