The ginormous Texas A&M / Coach Fran thread

dayhiker

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Re: A&M fires Mike McKenzie

UAME - you beat me to it. That was my first thought on Earle's post. For the love of God, take the Bama polo shirt off Kim's daddy!
 

RamJammer

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Re: A&M fires Mike McKenzie

HE WOULD - I mean - he WOULD dig him up - YA KNOW, where there is no heart, there is no feeling...

Oh the tangled web we weave...

HEY - Maybe this means that the focus will shift OFF the SEC today on the Finebuam show...
 

dayhiker

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Re: A&M fires Mike McKenzie

Courtesy of Randy Travis:

I'm a diggin' up bones, I'm digging up bones
Exhuming things that's better left alone
I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone
And tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones
 

GrayTide

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Re: A&M fires Mike McKenzie

AlabamaSooner I actually like the A&M program and fans a lot, but as long as Fran is there, I have to pull against them every game.
Does this mean we can start the Tubs to A&M thread again?:biggrin2:
 

dennychimes76

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Re: A&M fires Mike McKenzie

Very good of aTm to have this report out so soon and it be so thorough, with names. I doubt we would have seen this quality of response from Bama's Athletic Department, or at least not as candid.
The names had already been made public by the newspapers (NOT tamu).
All of this was a result of Freedom of Information Act requests by the media
(including financial statements).

So no kudos to the tamu Athletic Dept just yet.
 

RhodeIslandRed

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Re: A&M fires Mike McKenzie

Fran produced the rope. aTm just looked for the opportunity to hang him with it. No more buyout now.
 

MNBamaFan

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Re: A&M fires Mike McKenzie

Going to CoachFran.com produces this:

The requested URL could not be retrieved

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://coachfran.com/

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for coachfran.com
The dnsserver returned:

No DNS records
Oh Franny, what will you do next??? Arena Football? CEO of Enron?
 

RobK

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Re: A&M fires Mike McKenzie

The speedy timeline of the revelations, the investigation, the results, and the rebuke are what's most amazing. Universities are notorious for foot-dragging, stonewalling, and delaying responses to things like this. Perhaps it was presence of the freedom of information requests and desire to "get ahead of the press story" that expedited it. I don't know.

As has been said, it seems to set the stage for a potential firing without having to pay the buyout. That would certainly free up cash to go after Tubby or some other expensive coach.
 

Proxigean Tide

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Re: A&M fires Mike McKenzie

That public disclosure is BRUTAL! However, I applaud A&M's strategy. Forget the multi-million dollar buyout...Fran will be lucky if he's not asked to refund part of his salary for this bonehead maneuver.

Price had a $10MM lap dance and it looks as if Fran is going to have a $10MM newsletter.
 

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