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Well since Liberty is coached by Turner Gill and he has a pretty good record against Akron I would say I would not read much into the Can't game. Also, Can't State won more football games last year than we have in the last 5 years combined so any comparisons about how an opponent does against them and our potential are a little sketchy. Akron Football has never been so low. I really do not see a win on the schedule this year unless the opponent turns the ball over and basically gives us the game. I'm at the point where I just cannot force myself to watch the lack of performance. I count the days to basketball and I have soccer in the fall.

Best chance for a win is against UMass.

James Madison will not only beat Akron, but they will beat the Zips by 2 or more touchdowns.

Why not Ron Zook? He's from Loudonville and has a great network of coaches to build a staff.

Their coach has been mentioned in several threads as being someone we should be looking at.

You may be on to something there, which means that TW is really running this show with no one watching his moves or caring what damage is done. Why wait until after the D2 title game to make this show if you do not have someone on the hook from the $25,000 search firm? What is the involvement of the firm if they cannot bring real candidates to the table? If no one is named by the end of the day on Friday it could be after the new year until a new coach is named.

If what was written in another thread is true and only TW went to meet with PW in Detroit then there is only one person and one person alone to blame for this search going on for another stretch of misery. Dr Proenza. Winter's was already on record in the Detroit newspaper as to having serious issues with Akron and the 2009 search. This was an obvious sign that if PW was the guy that he was going to want to feel like he was really the guy this time. If the guy you want is an alum, like PW, you take all of the above and the head of the Alumni Association. Instead of doing this we continue the keystone cops routine, dragging out the nation's longest coaching search and getting dissed nationwide by an Akron Alum/D2 coach and a MAC coordinator who is a native of NE Ohio. I would love to know who is on this committee, who is the chairman of the committee, and who from the University Administration is actually making sure that TW is doing the job that he was hired to do.

Since this post is about trust, I'm going to go out on a limb and trust every word of WNN's post is good. Thanks for the effort. I left only these three parts in for a reason. It's one thing to not trust someone and still be able to negotiate a contract, as the contract is a form of protection. Paul could have done some negotiating, yet he decided not to. Goes directly to trust and the belief TW is someone he can't trust. I can't speak to what negotiating did or did not take place, I don't know who ended the conversation, I'm sharing what was shared with me. Certainly not everything that took place was shared with me, nor was everything shared with me shared with you. GP1, I'm not trying to knock what you've said, I just take exception to 'yet he decided not to.' Again, I'm not certain how it all shook out. For the record, Paul doesn't have an agent or a lawyer on retainer, he's never needed one. If this went down as you have laid out it was amateur hour all the way around. From PW's side if he is talking with someone about a job and does not have representation then he was acting like a D2 coach with no intent on taking the offer seriously. Given that Akron had just bought out a coach after two years that was a pretty good indication that you may need someone to help navigate the waters. From Akron's side if Proenza and Wistricil did not go to meet with their top guy this late in the search then they are both amateurs. If you want the coach then you pull out all the stops. This is the CEO of a multimillion dollar part of the university and the gas of the 70 million dollar football stadium. This program has already been screwed to the hilt and now we are playing games with sending 1 person?

College sports is not run like a business so this will be a real wake up call. It's not like these coaches are brain surgeons - what is so tough about coaching or being an AD. Most of us could do these jobs, it really takes no specific skill set other than being a leader. If you can paint the picture and get people to follow you will succeed.

Why not? Not much to lose. Breaks out of the mold of having someone with experience on the college level and outing the rut that most of college sports is stuck in. Wonder if he applied for our job? If there was a real reporter covering us perhaps we would get this information. It will be fun to watch what happens. Coastal was 7-4 this year and made a coaching change and has won 4 Big South Championships over the past 8 years so if this guy does not win a title in the next 3 years is he a success or failure? Turner Gill was just hired in this league at Liberty so you know they are going to be good. Stonybrook won that league this past year. Again, great test case for outside the box thinking.

Should be a unique test case to see if success in the boardroom translates into success on the gridiron.

Minor league football coach and TD Ameritrade CEO hired as new Coastal Carolina head coach. http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/12/20/25596...xt-coastal.html Interesting hire?

The fact that our folks drove to Detroit to offer Winters and he turned them down should tell you everything about this search. I wonder who all was in on the offer as anything short of Proenza making this offer himself is very disappointing. http://www.detnews.com/article/20111219/SP...ith-Wayne-State

Narduzzi - OUT Winters - OUT Loeffler - Impressed the search committee Johnson - Not looking to go to non BCS route via comments in LA Times Tresey - Interviewed with Akron officials last week Mason - No word in official outlets With this group I would pick Loeffler hands down.

You contradict yourself in your first sentence. Was iCoach fired for losing or more than just his losing record. Nonetheless, if you think that there is legitimate MAC title level talent on the field here you and I simply see things differently. Talent takes time to develop and anyone who tries to cut corners will get caught in the gate. The lack of recruiting that you mention is even more gas for my argument as no recruiting = no talent = no results. If we find the coach that can win games on their strategy alone, without anyone to execute on the field, then we have done something altogether.