Michigan, Utah, TCU $ used to buy out Chuck Long at SDSU

DwayneTwill

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So SDSU has RichRod's firing and two non-qualifiers making BCS bowls to thank for having enough money to pay off old #16.

On Nov. 23, 2008, San Diego State announced the firing of head football coach Chuck Long and stated that over $1 million had been raised to pay for it. “We’ve raised some private money to enable us to do it,†said Stephen Weber, president of SDSU. The amount committed for it was “just over a million dollars in private money,†Weber said at the news conference.
Records obtained by The Watchdog show that the $2.1 million cost of firing Long was only recently paid fully. Less than a fifth of the cost, or $405,000, came from private donors.
The money came largely from a $1 million check from the University of Michigan to buy out the SDSU contract of Long’s successor, Brady Hoke, who left SDSU to become thee Michigan head coach in January. That check was dated April 4.
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In addition to the April 4 Michigan check, SDSU relied on $375,000 from Utah’s berth in the 2009 Sugar Bowl and $314,676 from Texas Christian’s berth in the Rose Bowl this past January.
The unplanned bowl money and Michigan check, combined with $405,000 from unnamed donors, paid for $2.1 million in transition costs associated with firing Long and bringing in a new staff, including $429,000 to pay for Long’s fired coaching staff, according to SDSU records.
The Michigan buyout and the revenue-sharing funds could have helped dig the athletic department out of a separate, $2 million operational deficit amid state budget cuts if private donations had funded the Long firing.

Pledges unfulfilled for SDSU coach firing - SignOnSanDiego.com
 






Long was a great player but don't think he is much a coach. Wish him luck, but I don't want him back at Iowa.
 


Long was a great player but don't think he is much a coach. Wish him luck, but I don't want him back at Iowa.

I think he is a good assistant/coordinator. I wouldn't want him back simply because I think he is still wanting to be a head coach in the future and having him on our staff means he would probably leave within a few years of getting him.
 


I think he is a good assistant/coordinator. I wouldn't want him back simply because I think he is still wanting to be a head coach in the future and having him on our staff means he would probably leave within a few years of getting him.

I don't think there is any way he ever gets a head coaching job in D1 again. He is a pretty horrible coach
 


Long was a great player but don't think he is much a coach. Wish him luck, but I don't want him back at Iowa.

His numbers at Oklahoma when he was their offensive coordinator speak for themselves. They averaged 51.5 PPG in 2003. He may not have had much success as a head coach but I think he makes one heck of an offensive coordinator and would love if Iowa pursued him should KOK ever move on.
 


His numbers at Oklahoma when he was their offensive coordinator speak for themselves. They averaged 51.5 PPG in 2003. He may not have had much success as a head coach but I think he makes one heck of an offensive coordinator and would love if Iowa pursued him should KOK ever move on.

And the talent there didn't have something to do with it?
 


And the talent there didn't have something to do with it?

I knew that would be somebody's response. Then I can say the talent at SDSU had nothing to do with him not winning many games there?

Its obvious Long is a competent OC. Some people on here are saying he is a bad coach and that isnt true.
 






His numbers at Oklahoma when he was their offensive coordinator speak for themselves. They averaged 51.5 PPG in 2003. He may not have had much success as a head coach but I think he makes one heck of an offensive coordinator and would love if Iowa pursued him should KOK ever move on.

Well he was only co-offensive coordinator and it's not like Oklahoma's offense really fell apart when he left.
 


Brady Hoke didn't seem to have a problem with the talent there

That can get into the whole he won with Long's recruits which he did look at the starters.

Was it a different philosophy or was it gettting more experience for the skill positions, maybe a little of both? All I am saying is Zook looked great with other peoples recruits too.
 


That can get into the whole he won with Long's recruits which he did look at the starters.

Was it a different philosophy or was it gettting more experience for the skill positions, maybe a little of both? All I am saying is Zook looked great with other peoples recruits too.

This.

Charlie Weiss anyone?
 


That can get into the whole he won with Long's recruits which he did look at the starters.

Was it a different philosophy or was it gettting more experience for the skill positions, maybe a little of both? All I am saying is Zook looked great with other peoples recruits too.

Yeah that's not really true at all. Zook can't coach but he can definitely recruit. He did not win with Ron Turner's recruits. He brought in a ton of talent to that program.
 


Yeah that's not really true at all. Zook can't coach but he can definitely recruit. He did not win with Ron Turner's recruits. He brought in a ton of talent to that program.

That is true Zook was a bad example. I don't remember the turn around time that there was with Illinois probably because they were bad. Weiss is a good one what about an NFL example Jon Gruden winning A SB in TB the year after Dungy exited the picture. Any other good college examples? How about basketball Lickliter at Butler?
 
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That is true Zook was a bad example. I don't remember the turn around time that there was with Illinois probably because they were bad. Weiss is a good one what about an NFL example Jon Gruden winning A SB in TB the year after Dungy exited the picture. Any ohter good college examples? How about basketball Lickliter at Butler?

Larry Coker is probably the best example of this.
 


What people fail to remember is that Long was the QB coach when KF was hired, but KOK wanted to work directly with the QB's, so the QB coach job was eliminated.

Long doesn't talk too fondly of that situation.
 




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