How bad is the job at EMU...

Sidejudge · Post by **Sidejudge** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:30 am

From footballscoop .com today:
Eastern Michigan: Sources tell us that several candidates have turned down the job at Eastern Michigan. We hear EMU officials may now talk with Wayne State head coach Paul Winters.

Ouch!

60yearsofsicsic · Post by **60yearsofsicsic** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:10 am

I think this is a case of a school thinking a little to much of its self .... EMU had a good coach I am not saying great, but they won some games and were in alot of games till the end I don't think you can ask for more at EMU....

By the way I dont know where Coach G is now but might be a great Asst. Coach choice

The Niz · Post by **The Niz** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:55 am

60yearsofsicsic wrote:I think this is a case of a school thinking a little to much of its self .... EMU had a good coach I am not saying great, but they won some games and were in alot of games till the end I don't think you can ask for more at EMU....

By the way I dont know where Coach G is now but might be a great Asst. Coach choice

He could have coached the Eagles to a national championship and I still wouldn't want him around here after he burnt his old jersey after our game this year. GET BENT GENYK.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:12 pm

Niz:

No doubt. He literally burned a bridge, IMO.

Eastern will always be a tough sell for coaches and players. It's literally in the shadow of the Big House and has been at or near the bottom of the MAC for a long, long time. You've got Two Big Tenleven programs nearby, two MAC schools in-state and two more just down the road.

That's one tough sell.

h2oville rocket · Post by **h2oville rocket** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:33 pm

1987alum wrote:Niz:

No doubt. He literally burned a bridge, IMO.

Surely you don't mean that.

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:59 pm

h2oville rocket wrote:
1987alum wrote:Niz:

No doubt. He literally burned a bridge, IMO.
Surely you don't mean that.

I think he does and I agree. Why would you do such a thing? He is still a BG grad and former player. He burned his BG jersey...I didn't like it one bit.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:59 pm

h2oville rocket wrote:
1987alum wrote:Niz:

No doubt. He literally burned a bridge, IMO.
Surely you don't mean that.

Hey, he brought one of the jerseys from his BG playing days to the game, then torched it in front of his players. Not. Cool.

As far as I'm concerned, he burned a bridge.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:59 pm

1987alum wrote:
h2oville rocket wrote:
1987alum wrote:Niz:

No doubt. He literally burned a bridge, IMO.
Surely you don't mean that.
Hey, he brought one of the jerseys from his BG playing days to the game, then torched it in front of his players. Not. Cool.

As far as I'm concerned, he burned a bridge.

I think what H20 was getting at, is you can't literally accomplish a metaphor. =)

h2oville rocket · Post by **h2oville rocket** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:05 pm

Correctamundo. Don't know about burning jerseys, although burning parts of Jersey has merit. My reference was a picky little editorial one.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:12 pm

h2oville rocket wrote:Correctamundo. Don't know about burning jerseys, although burning parts of Jersey has merit. My reference was a picky little editorial one.

Most of New Jersey certainly smells like it's burning.

Ryan Autullo · Post by **Ryan Autullo** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:07 am

It might be time for Eastern Michigan to determine whether all the money it pours into its football program is really worth it. If the Wayne State guy turns down this job then I'd consider turning the lights off on the program and turning Rynearson Stadium into an outdoor skating rink.

fredthefalcon · Post by **fredthefalcon** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:16 am

Evidently not that bad!!! Two of the guys who people on this board touted as potential replacements for GB are the lead candidates according to today's "Detroit News." Ron English, former DC for Michigan, sounds like the lead candidate and the Grand Valley Head Coach is the other.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:34 pm

Ryan Autullo wrote:It might be time for Eastern Michigan to determine whether all the money it pours into its football program is really worth it. If the Wayne State guy turns down this job then I'd consider turning the lights off on the program and turning Rynearson Stadium into an outdoor skating rink.

It would probably be the best stadium in the Missouri Valley.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:40 pm

fredthefalcon wrote:Evidently not that bad!!! Two of the guys who people on this board touted as potential replacements for GB are the lead candidates according to today's "Detroit News." Ron English, former DC for Michigan, sounds like the lead candidate and the Grand Valley Head Coach is the other.

I wouldn't be surprised if English went there or at least that his name is mentioned, with Lloyd Carr allegedly helping conduct the search. If you can turn around EMU, you'll fly up the coaching ladder, I'd think.

It's the Journey... · Post by **It's the Journey...** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:52 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:
Ryan Autullo wrote:It might be time for Eastern Michigan to determine whether all the money it pours into its football program is really worth it. If the Wayne State guy turns down this job then I'd consider turning the lights off on the program and turning Rynearson Stadium into an outdoor skating rink.
It would probably be the best stadium in the Missouri Valley.

I know you are kidding. Rynearson Stadium would be a mid- level Missouri Valley football stadium at best. The only thing that keeps it from the very bottom it the end zone facility and Southern Illinois University! EMU would be better off financially without football, out of the MAC, and into a conference where basketball is the prime sport. They would get more bang for their buck trying to get some atmosphere into that tomb of an arena up there.