Al Bohl says ideally he’d like to have a new Kansas head football coach by December. High hopes, marginal prospects?
If Bohl hires a retread such as John Cooper, formerly of Ohio State, or Hal Mumme, late of Kentucky, that might be possible. Yet if the KU athletics director wants some current high-powered assistant he might have to wait until playoffs and even bowl games. With rare exceptions, topflight aides won’t desert current employers due to loyalty, and contract terms, until an existing season has concluded. It’s been done, but not often.
If the wait is that long, the Jayhawks will lose even more ground in the recruiting wars. That caused the ousted Terry Allen to get a weak talent harvest for his 1997 debut. Does such a scenario heighten the chances Bohl will hire interim boss Tom Hayes full-time?
Continuity, territorial knowledge and immediate recruiting are major factors right now. KU for too long has been getting its lumps in talent-hunting, by the likes of Kansas State, for example. Some think Hayes and a number of the current assistants can provide the kind of transition vital to a turnaround. There seems to be far more expertise and experience than Allen ever had on his staff until this critical fall, after he was forced to get better help.
Terry ran into a multiple buzz saw when the Glen Mason el vamooso to Minnesota left the cupboard fairly bare and provided little time for Allen to get enough blue-chippers to succeed. Add that Terry brought a batch of old Northern Iowa assistant buddies who weren’t as conversant with the ferocious territory as they needed to be.
Allen in retrospect never had a consistent big league quarterback or running back. There isn’t one now. Mario Kinsey so far is badly overrated as an athlete, has proved to be a terrible role model and hasn’t shown the discipline to make things work. Should have been booted after he missed a team meeting, on the heels of drug charges and theft.
Terry should have gone with Zach Dyer for the long haul and let an able athlete-honor student run things, good or bad. Couldn’t have been worse than Kinsey’s performance. But apparently the gentle, caring Terry wanted to try to save Mario from himself. In the end, he couldn’t save Mario or his job noble though his intentions were.
From what I hear, Tom Hayes won’t put up with any foolishness from Kinsey or any other hot dogs on the squad. Tom can be tough; he embraces the notion of be good or be gone.
Then what about the money for a new coach and the kind of staff Allen never assembled in time?
Under current gender equity stipulations, Allen, men’s basketball coach Roy Williams and women’s basketball coach Marian Washington draw basic salaries of $125,618. Roy’s total package has been estimated in the annual neighborhood of $1.2 million, Terry’s along the lines of $320,000 and Washington’s about $225,000-plus after that new three-year contract she got before this season.
OK, the bare, bare minimum carrot KU will be able to dangle on a stick for a viable new football coach is $500,000. Skeptics say it’ll have to be a lot better than that, even as much as $1 million.
Certainly if the new gridmaster gets a hefty hike in the basic salary, KU will have to do just as well for Roy Williams, and should. Then you can be sure the Washingtonites will start clamoring for their darling to be at the same level.
C’mon, guys, how far we gonna let this political correctness go? The new football guy will be brought in to give the treasury a boost with better players, teams and bigger crowds to make the grid sport produce the kind of $4 million-plus profit Williams’s cagers create per year. Meanwhile, the women’s program continues to incur something like a $900,000 to $1 million deficit.
Allen’s demise was the result of job performance. Should Washington continue to get healthy pay and benefit boosts until she’s producing a la Williams, or a successful new football man?
I know, it’s not comforting to some to hear this, although that million-dollar gap causes considerable budgeting problems for the Jayhawks. In all the periodic rundowns I see in other papers about KU’s financial woes, seems everyone tiptoes around the fact women’s basketball is a terrible load at this point, salaries, benefits, expenses and all.
The business of political correctness just for the hell of it has been described as an attempt to make silly people happy. We’ve been straining to the point of herniation for a long time to dodge some salient facts. One of them seems to be that while the new football coach and Roy Williams must get whatever the traffic will bear, the time seems to be at hand for a moratorium on any more windfalls for Marian Washington Title IX or no Title IX.
Every now and then, somebody has to look into the cash drawer and face reality.
So what does Al Bohl do? Will he be able to raise enough big bucks to produce turnarounds such as we’ve seen at South Carolina, Virginia Tech and, choke, Kansas State? Will he get the kind of support from chancellor Bob Hemenway that Jon Wefald has given KSU’s Bill Snyder?
Whatta you do . . . stick with Hayes, go with guys like Cooper and Mumme who left their previous jobs in controversy or line up some able Roy Williams type who can excite football fans the way Roy and Co. have done in basketball?
Meanwhile, send money.
Al Bohl says ideally he’d like to have a new Kansas head football coach by December. High hopes, marginal prospects?
If Bohl hires a retread such as John Cooper, formerly of Ohio State, or Hal Mumme, late of Kentucky, that might be possible. Yet if the KU athletics director wants some current high-powered assistant he might have to wait until playoffs and even bowl games. With rare exceptions, topflight aides won’t desert current employers due to loyalty, and contract terms, until an existing season has concluded. It’s been done, but not often.
If the wait is that long, the Jayhawks will lose even more ground in the recruiting wars. That caused the ousted Terry Allen to get a weak talent harvest for his 1997 debut. Does such a scenario heighten the chances Bohl will hire interim boss Tom Hayes full-time?
Continuity, territorial knowledge and immediate recruiting are major factors right now. KU for too long has been getting its lumps in talent-hunting, by the likes of Kansas State, for example. Some think Hayes and a number of the current assistants can provide the kind of transition vital to a turnaround. There seems to be far more expertise and experience than Allen ever had on his staff until this critical fall, after he was forced to get better help.
Terry ran into a multiple buzz saw when the Glen Mason el vamooso to Minnesota left the cupboard fairly bare and provided little time for Allen to get enough blue-chippers to succeed. Add that Terry brought a batch of old Northern Iowa assistant buddies who weren’t as conversant with the ferocious territory as they needed to be.
Allen in retrospect never had a consistent big league quarterback or running back. There isn’t one now. Mario Kinsey so far is badly overrated as an athlete, has proved to be a terrible role model and hasn’t shown the discipline to make things work. Should have been booted after he missed a team meeting, on the heels of drug charges and theft.
Terry should have gone with Zach Dyer for the long haul and let an able athlete-honor student run things, good or bad. Couldn’t have been worse than Kinsey’s performance. But apparently the gentle, caring Terry wanted to try to save Mario from himself. In the end, he couldn’t save Mario or his job noble though his intentions were.
From what I hear, Tom Hayes won’t put up with any foolishness from Kinsey or any other hot dogs on the squad. Tom can be tough; he embraces the notion of be good or be gone.
Then what about the money for a new coach and the kind of staff Allen never assembled in time?
Under current gender equity stipulations, Allen, men’s basketball coach Roy Williams and women’s basketball coach Marian Washington draw basic salaries of $125,618. Roy’s total package has been estimated in the annual neighborhood of $1.2 million, Terry’s along the lines of $320,000 and Washington’s about $225,000-plus after that new three-year contract she got before this season.
OK, the bare, bare minimum carrot KU will be able to dangle on a stick for a viable new football coach is $500,000. Skeptics say it’ll have to be a lot better than that, even as much as $1 million.
Certainly if the new gridmaster gets a hefty hike in the basic salary, KU will have to do just as well for Roy Williams, and should. Then you can be sure the Washingtonites will start clamoring for their darling to be at the same level.
C’mon, guys, how far we gonna let this political correctness go? The new football guy will be brought in to give the treasury a boost with better players, teams and bigger crowds to make the grid sport produce the kind of $4 million-plus profit Williams’s cagers create per year. Meanwhile, the women’s program continues to incur something like a $900,000 to $1 million deficit.
Allen’s demise was the result of job performance. Should Washington continue to get healthy pay and benefit boosts until she’s producing a la Williams, or a successful new football man?
I know, it’s not comforting to some to hear this, although that million-dollar gap causes considerable budgeting problems for the Jayhawks. In all the periodic rundowns I see in other papers about KU’s financial woes, seems everyone tiptoes around the fact women’s basketball is a terrible load at this point, salaries, benefits, expenses and all.
The business of political correctness just for the hell of it has been described as an attempt to make silly people happy. We’ve been straining to the point of herniation for a long time to dodge some salient facts. One of them seems to be that while the new football coach and Roy Williams must get whatever the traffic will bear, the time seems to be at hand for a moratorium on any more windfalls for Marian Washington Title IX or no Title IX.
Every now and then, somebody has to look into the cash drawer and face reality.
So what does Al Bohl do? Will he be able to raise enough big bucks to produce turnarounds such as we’ve seen at South Carolina, Virginia Tech and, choke, Kansas State? Will he get the kind of support from chancellor Bob Hemenway that Jon Wefald has given KSU’s Bill Snyder?
Whatta you do . . . stick with Hayes, go with guys like Cooper and Mumme who left their previous jobs in controversy or line up some able Roy Williams type who can excite football fans the way Roy and Co. have done in basketball?
Meanwhile, send money.
Al Bohl says ideally he’d like to have a new Kansas head football coach by December. High hopes, marginal prospects?
If Bohl hires a retread such as John Cooper, formerly of Ohio State, or Hal Mumme, late of Kentucky, that might be possible. Yet if the KU athletics director wants some current high-powered assistant he might have to wait until playoffs and even bowl games. With rare exceptions, topflight aides won’t desert current employers due to loyalty, and contract terms, until an existing season has concluded. It’s been done, but not often.
If the wait is that long, the Jayhawks will lose even more ground in the recruiting wars. That caused the ousted Terry Allen to get a weak talent harvest for his 1997 debut. Does such a scenario heighten the chances Bohl will hire interim boss Tom Hayes full-time?
Continuity, territorial knowledge and immediate recruiting are major factors right now. KU for too long has been getting its lumps in talent-hunting, by the likes of Kansas State, for example. Some think Hayes and a number of the current assistants can provide the kind of transition vital to a turnaround. There seems to be far more expertise and experience than Allen ever had on his staff until this critical fall, after he was forced to get better help.
Terry ran into a multiple buzz saw when the Glen Mason el vamooso to Minnesota left the cupboard fairly bare and provided little time for Allen to get enough blue-chippers to succeed. Add that Terry brought a batch of old Northern Iowa assistant buddies who weren’t as conversant with the ferocious territory as they needed to be.
Allen in retrospect never had a consistent big league quarterback or running back. There isn’t one now. Mario Kinsey so far is badly overrated as an athlete, has proved to be a terrible role model and hasn’t shown the discipline to make things work. Should have been booted after he missed a team meeting, on the heels of drug charges and theft.
Terry should have gone with Zach Dyer for the long haul and let an able athlete-honor student run things, good or bad. Couldn’t have been worse than Kinsey’s performance. But apparently the gentle, caring Terry wanted to try to save Mario from himself. In the end, he couldn’t save Mario or his job noble though his intentions were.
From what I hear, Tom Hayes won’t put up with any foolishness from Kinsey or any other hot dogs on the squad. Tom can be tough; he embraces the notion of be good or be gone.
Then what about the money for a new coach and the kind of staff Allen never assembled in time?
Under current gender equity stipulations, Allen, men’s basketball coach Roy Williams and women’s basketball coach Marian Washington draw basic salaries of $125,618. Roy’s total package has been estimated in the annual neighborhood of $1.2 million, Terry’s along the lines of $320,000 and Washington’s about $225,000-plus after that new three-year contract she got before this season.
OK, the bare, bare minimum carrot KU will be able to dangle on a stick for a viable new football coach is $500,000. Skeptics say it’ll have to be a lot better than that, even as much as $1 million.
Certainly if the new gridmaster gets a hefty hike in the basic salary, KU will have to do just as well for Roy Williams, and should. Then you can be sure the Washingtonites will start clamoring for their darling to be at the same level.
C’mon, guys, how far we gonna let this political correctness go? The new football guy will be brought in to give the treasury a boost with better players, teams and bigger crowds to make the grid sport produce the kind of $4 million-plus profit Williams’s cagers create per year. Meanwhile, the women’s program continues to incur something like a $900,000 to $1 million deficit.
Allen’s demise was the result of job performance. Should Washington continue to get healthy pay and benefit boosts until she’s producing a la Williams, or a successful new football man?
I know, it’s not comforting to some to hear this, although that million-dollar gap causes considerable budgeting problems for the Jayhawks. In all the periodic rundowns I see in other papers about KU’s financial woes, seems everyone tiptoes around the fact women’s basketball is a terrible load at this point, salaries, benefits, expenses and all.
The business of political correctness just for the hell of it has been described as an attempt to make silly people happy. We’ve been straining to the point of herniation for a long time to dodge some salient facts. One of them seems to be that while the new football coach and Roy Williams must get whatever the traffic will bear, the time seems to be at hand for a moratorium on any more windfalls for Marian Washington Title IX or no Title IX.
Every now and then, somebody has to look into the cash drawer and face reality.
So what does Al Bohl do? Will he be able to raise enough big bucks to produce turnarounds such as we’ve seen at South Carolina, Virginia Tech and, choke, Kansas State? Will he get the kind of support from chancellor Bob Hemenway that Jon Wefald has given KSU’s Bill Snyder?
Whatta you do . . . stick with Hayes, go with guys like Cooper and Mumme who left their previous jobs in controversy or line up some able Roy Williams type who can excite football fans the way Roy and Co. have done in basketball?
Meanwhile, send money.
Al Bohl says ideally he’d like to have a new Kansas head football coach by December. High hopes, marginal prospects?
If Bohl hires a retread such as John Cooper, formerly of Ohio State, or Hal Mumme, late of Kentucky, that might be possible. Yet if the KU athletics director wants some current high-powered assistant he might have to wait until playoffs and even bowl games. With rare exceptions, topflight aides won’t desert current employers due to loyalty, and contract terms, until an existing season has concluded. It’s been done, but not often.
If the wait is that long, the Jayhawks will lose even more ground in the recruiting wars. That caused the ousted Terry Allen to get a weak talent harvest for his 1997 debut. Does such a scenario heighten the chances Bohl will hire interim boss Tom Hayes full-time?
Continuity, territorial knowledge and immediate recruiting are major factors right now. KU for too long has been getting its lumps in talent-hunting, by the likes of Kansas State, for example. Some think Hayes and a number of the current assistants can provide the kind of transition vital to a turnaround. There seems to be far more expertise and experience than Allen ever had on his staff until this critical fall, after he was forced to get better help.
Terry ran into a multiple buzz saw when the Glen Mason el vamooso to Minnesota left the cupboard fairly bare and provided little time for Allen to get enough blue-chippers to succeed. Add that Terry brought a batch of old Northern Iowa assistant buddies who weren’t as conversant with the ferocious territory as they needed to be.
Allen in retrospect never had a consistent big league quarterback or running back. There isn’t one now. Mario Kinsey so far is badly overrated as an athlete, has proved to be a terrible role model and hasn’t shown the discipline to make things work. Should have been booted after he missed a team meeting, on the heels of drug charges and theft.
Terry should have gone with Zach Dyer for the long haul and let an able athlete-honor student run things, good or bad. Couldn’t have been worse than Kinsey’s performance. But apparently the gentle, caring Terry wanted to try to save Mario from himself. In the end, he couldn’t save Mario or his job noble though his intentions were.
From what I hear, Tom Hayes won’t put up with any foolishness from Kinsey or any other hot dogs on the squad. Tom can be tough; he embraces the notion of be good or be gone.
Then what about the money for a new coach and the kind of staff Allen never assembled in time?
Under current gender equity stipulations, Allen, men’s basketball coach Roy Williams and women’s basketball coach Marian Washington draw basic salaries of $125,618. Roy’s total package has been estimated in the annual neighborhood of $1.2 million, Terry’s along the lines of $320,000 and Washington’s about $225,000-plus after that new three-year contract she got before this season.
OK, the bare, bare minimum carrot KU will be able to dangle on a stick for a viable new football coach is $500,000. Skeptics say it’ll have to be a lot better than that, even as much as $1 million.
Certainly if the new gridmaster gets a hefty hike in the basic salary, KU will have to do just as well for Roy Williams, and should. Then you can be sure the Washingtonites will start clamoring for their darling to be at the same level.
C’mon, guys, how far we gonna let this political correctness go? The new football guy will be brought in to give the treasury a boost with better players, teams and bigger crowds to make the grid sport produce the kind of $4 million-plus profit Williams’s cagers create per year. Meanwhile, the women’s program continues to incur something like a $900,000 to $1 million deficit.
Allen’s demise was the result of job performance. Should Washington continue to get healthy pay and benefit boosts until she’s producing a la Williams, or a successful new football man?
I know, it’s not comforting to some to hear this, although that million-dollar gap causes considerable budgeting problems for the Jayhawks. In all the periodic rundowns I see in other papers about KU’s financial woes, seems everyone tiptoes around the fact women’s basketball is a terrible load at this point, salaries, benefits, expenses and all.
The business of political correctness just for the hell of it has been described as an attempt to make silly people happy. We’ve been straining to the point of herniation for a long time to dodge some salient facts. One of them seems to be that while the new football coach and Roy Williams must get whatever the traffic will bear, the time seems to be at hand for a moratorium on any more windfalls for Marian Washington Title IX or no Title IX.
Every now and then, somebody has to look into the cash drawer and face reality.
So what does Al Bohl do? Will he be able to raise enough big bucks to produce turnarounds such as we’ve seen at South Carolina, Virginia Tech and, choke, Kansas State? Will he get the kind of support from chancellor Bob Hemenway that Jon Wefald has given KSU’s Bill Snyder?
Whatta you do . . . stick with Hayes, go with guys like Cooper and Mumme who left their previous jobs in controversy or line up some able Roy Williams type who can excite football fans the way Roy and Co. have done in basketball?
Meanwhile, send money.
