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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by NilesGold » Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:00 pm

^ I've seen nothing to indicate that Cox is a better coach than McCall.

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Post by DanaDingle3 » Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:15 pm

^ He's not, but at least his hiring made sense. He was one of the guys who helped elevate the program, along with Hurley.

Walt Bell, and to a lesser extent, Matt McCall made a lot less sense for hires. If we can get a skinny suit, brown shoes and a shoebox full of notes, plans, and diagrams for dennisdent, we might have a leading candidate to take over the football program.

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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by UMassfan_19 » Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:00 pm

dennisdent wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:01 pm
UMassfan_19 wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:19 pm
dennisdent wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:42 pm

So? Cox is a better coach then McCall (which isn't saying much)...He has a winning record at URI, and two out of three winning seasons--something that McCall hasn't had UMass.
He inherited a much better program from Hurley I wouldn’t consider Cox a mature adult tbh
So you know Cox personally? At least he was really good player at W&M and not the water boy at UF... :lol:
A mature adult doesn’t prep for a player everyone knows isn’t playing and then admits it.

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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by MikeUMA » Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:43 pm

UMassfan_19 wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:32 pm
dennisdent wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:59 am I would almost guarantee that Thorr would never had hired, much less, interviewed McCall or Bell! He hires mature adults...
He hired Cox who famously prepared his team for a player the whole world knew was injured
Cox wasn't as much hired for the job as he was promoted in the hopes of keeping some of his predecessor's success going. Same as how Bruiser was promoted in 1996.

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Post by McKinney » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:28 pm

^ Or Morris for Brown. 😬
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Post by dennisdent » Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:15 pm

DanaDingle3 wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:15 pm ^ He's not, but at least his hiring made sense. He was one of the guys who helped elevate the program, along with Hurley.

Walt Bell, and to a lesser extent, Matt McCall made a lot less sense for hires. If we can get a skinny suit, brown shoes and a shoebox full of notes, plans, and diagrams for dennisdent, we might have a leading candidate to take over the football program.
:lol: Please NO!!! One has been enough for me! You left out from the South and no connection to the Northeast! But they are good to hang out with at the Longmeadow Country Club with their young families, unlike grumpy old Whip who just wanted to play golf and drink some beers with the boys.

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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by ZooMass84 » Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:16 am

When is Bamford's contract up? His email to me indicated that he was good with the football team and Bell is "meeting benchmarks" blah blah blah.

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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by ZooMass84 » Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:19 am

dennisdent wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:15 pm
DanaDingle3 wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:15 pm ^ He's not, but at least his hiring made sense. He was one of the guys who helped elevate the program, along with Hurley.

Walt Bell, and to a lesser extent, Matt McCall made a lot less sense for hires. If we can get a skinny suit, brown shoes and a shoebox full of notes, plans, and diagrams for dennisdent, we might have a leading candidate to take over the football program.
:lol: Please NO!!! One has been enough for me! You left out from the South and no connection to the Northeast! But they are good to hang out with at the Longmeadow Country Club with their young families, unlike grumpy old Whip who just wanted to play golf and drink some beers with the boys.
Right!!!! Let's get rid of the "old" guy (was he 60 at the time) and his 4-8 records and almost beat Tennessee to get a young clueless whippersnapper who is going to go 1-27 and probably NOT get fired.

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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by ZooMass84 » Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:26 am

Hate to tell you guys this but Bamford's not going anywhere until he gets a better job and Bell will probably be here for his full 5 year contract. It makes no sense but the fix is in.

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Post by InnervisionsUMASS » Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:41 am

ZooMass84 wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:26 am Hate to tell you guys this but Bamford's not going anywhere until he gets a better job and Bell will probably be here for his full 5 year contract. It makes no sense but the fix is in.


The extension he got in 2017 puts him as being employed until April 26, 2022. We'll certainly be finding out soon enough on all of this.

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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by McKinney » Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:00 am

In all seriousness, those who want Bamford and Bell (and McCall) gone should hope that Bamford's the first to go.
We do NOT want an AD on the way out to lead a coaching search.
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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by PreecherJenkins » Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:15 pm

InnervisionsUMASS wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:41 am
ZooMass84 wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:26 am Hate to tell you guys this but Bamford's not going anywhere until he gets a better job and Bell will probably be here for his full 5 year contract. It makes no sense but the fix is in.


The extension he got in 2017 puts him as being employed until April 26, 2022. We'll certainly be finding out soon enough on all of this.

https://www.gazettenet.com/UMass-athlet ... n-12355959
INV. the thing we do not know is did he get an extension somewhere along the way that was not reported by Walfish, Matty V et all?

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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by InnervisionsUMASS » Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:36 am

PreecherJenkins wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:15 pm INV. the thing we do not know is did he get an extension somewhere along the way that was not reported by Walfish, Matty V et all?

Stats Man, no kidding....

I think that would have been reported, no? The extension he got then was reported. The pay cut due to Covid was reported.

With that said, the State page shows that his base pay since 2018 has been above that $300k figure (ranges from $311-381k) that the 2017 article reports, so who knows I guess.
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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by PreecherJenkins » Thu Oct 07, 2021 8:27 am

InnervisionsUMASS wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:36 am
PreecherJenkins wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:15 pm INV. the thing we do not know is did he get an extension somewhere along the way that was not reported by Walfish, Matty V et all?

Stats Man, no kidding....

I think that would have been reported, no? The extension he got then was reported. The pay cut due to Covid was reported.

With that said, the State page shows that his base pay since 2018 has been above that $300k figure (ranges from $311-381k) that the 2017 article reports, so who knows I guess.
One would think,
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Re: Fire Ryan Bamford

Post by DanaDingle3 » Thu Oct 28, 2021 9:34 pm

Looks like Bamford's been extended to at least 2024 -- https://twitter.com/FightMA247/status/1 ... 7079604229

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