good dolphin wrote:
Brick wrote:
They were 4-20 the last two years. They were already there.
four bowl wins (all against power 5) and two B10 championship game appearances over the last seven years is a lot of recent success. I guess you could respond that three of the last four were terrible but pre Barnett era cat fans would be embarrassed to complain about only one west division championship in four years. and they had some decent names as coaches, like Dennis Green and Ara Parsaghein. Heck, Barnett and Walker were both under .500 as coaches.
I never thought much of Fitzgerald as a coach but his success is pretty remarkable
and he wasn't using it as a stepping stone.
He was making $5 MILLION PER YEAR without having to produce anything other than an occasional winning season! If he tried to move up from NU, he probably would have been hired into a program where he actually would need to deliver 10 or 11 per year on a consistent basis, something he likely isn't capable of doing (most coaches aren't). In other words, using NU as a
stepping stone would only have resulted in Fitz
stepping in it.
As I mentioned several years ago on this board, I had some tense interactions with Coach Fitz a little more than a decade ago. He can be engaging publicly, but he also has a vindictive, megalomaniacal side that he displays privately. He struck me then as a bit of a buffoon and a bully, and recent events have only served to confirm that impression.
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