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Just saw this at: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/f ... index.html

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Safeties coach Shannon Morrison is leaving Marshall University to become co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Bowling Green.

Marshall football coach Mark Snyder announced Morrison's resignation Wednesday.

Morrison had served as safeties coach since 2007. He came to Marshall in 2005 and served as linebackers coach for two seasons.

I pray that when they say "co-defensive coordinator" they don't mean we are going to have a run-stopping coordinator and a pass-stopping coordinator...

Oops, read too fast.

I thought it said Morrissey was joining the staff.



Seemed like an odd choice, to say the least...

Any word on salary?

svillefalcon wrote:I pray that when they say "co-defensive coordinator" they don't mean we are going to have a run-stopping coordinator and a pass-stopping coordinator...

+1 on that Sville.

1987alum wrote:Oops, read too fast.

I thought it said Morrissey was joining the staff.



Seemed like an odd choice, to say the least...

Gosh, and I thought this guy was joining the staff...



I was really impressed that he could rise from the dead. And coach football, nonetheless.

professorjackson wrote:Any word on salary?

They are paying him $2,000,000/year, and to do that, they are actually cutting all wages of the full-time faculty by 50%.

"They are paying him $2,000,000/year, and to do that, they are actually cutting all wages of the full-time faculty by 50%."

Haha!

I asked because I've always heard that our assistants were underpaid, and I prayed the coach was making the money he deserved. It most certainly wasn't a reference to the slashing of funding for the core mission of the university, and the requirement that College of Arts and Sciences and others justify every penny, while other less essential programs appeaer to just skate through our current budget crisis.

On a related note, the university did just hire another central administrator for a cool $150,000 per year!

Roll Along!

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Actually I have it on reliable authority that Coach Morrison will be responsible for first and second down, and the other co-coordinator will be responsible for third and fourth down.

orangeandbrown wrote:Actually I have it on reliable authority that Coach Morrison will be responsible for first and second down, and the other co-coordinator will be responsible for third and fourth down.

No you have it wrong...the call at 4th down is the special team coach

footballguy51 wrote:

professorjackson wrote:Any word on salary?

They are paying him $2,000,000/year, and to do that, they are actually cutting all wages of the full-time faculty by 50%.

Given the cuts the rest of the University is making it is a legitimate question. There is no need to be a dick about it. I would love to know how much athletics is required to cut from their budget for the cause.

It's the Journey... wrote:

footballguy51 wrote:

professorjackson wrote:Any word on salary?

They are paying him $2,000,000/year, and to do that, they are actually cutting all wages of the full-time faculty by 50%.

Given the cuts the rest of the University is making it is a legitimate question. There is no need to be a dick about it. I would love to know how much athletics is required to cut from their budget for the cause.

Can't say specifics but GC brought this up - I think in ask the AD but maybe it was someplace else. He said athletics is not immune to the economy and budget cuts and there would be staff reductions. Beyond that, not sure, but athletics lives in the same real world that we live in.

It's the Journey... wrote:

footballguy51 wrote:

professorjackson wrote:Any word on salary?

They are paying him $2,000,000/year, and to do that, they are actually cutting all wages of the full-time faculty by 50%.

Given the cuts the rest of the University is making it is a legitimate question. There is no need to be a dick about it. I would love to know how much athletics is required to cut from their budget for the cause.

I responded that way because every post from him recently has been about how we spent money we shouldn't have, or how the athletics should be cut in favor of academics (yeah, that wouldn't help very much). I read that post, and all that said to me is, "I want to complain about the finances of BGSU athletics some more." Now, if it was a legitimate question, without any other intentions, then I apologize. However, he said the buyout for Brandon wasn't something we should have forked over because it was money we could have used for other things.

"I responded that way because every post from him recently has been about how we spent money we shouldn't have, or how the athletics should be cut in favor of academics (yeah, that wouldn't help very much). I read that post, and all that said to me is, "I want to complain about the finances of BGSU athletics some more." Now, if it was a legitimate question, without any other intentions, then I apologize. However, he said the buyout for Brandon wasn't something we should have forked over because it was money we could have used for other things."


First, I have become something of a one note song on the question of university finances here because that is the atmosphere at BGSU right now. It's all we here from the administration from the president to our dean. Our college, A and S, is taking millions and millions of dollars of cuts, and we get to hear the details. We hear rumors that other colleges and divisions are taking equal or worse hits, but we don't see the evidence. Maybe we need a university-wide summit where we learn just what amount of pain everyone is taking.

Second, I haven't really suggested that athletics should be cut in favor of academics. I realize it doesn't work that way. Maybe the $8 to $10 million in student fees given to athletics every year could be better spent, I don't know. Maybe our enrollment wouldn't be dropping if we could cut that cost out for students. It doesn't seem liek the free tickets they get mean that much to most of them.

Next, the question is legitimate, whether or not you think I'm a whiner. How much is he making? Inquiring minds want to know.

Also, and I know this post is getting outrgeously long, but don't think I'm some athletics-hating professor. Among the faculty I know, not a very representative sample, I'm pretty damned pro-Falcon athletics. It's the ones who hate it that you're probably going to have to worry about.

Finally, I'll never be happy with paying off Brandon $250,000 when quite a few good insructors I know who worked very hard and effectively for this university are being fired without so much as a delightful parting gift. And some of them got their notices Christmas Eve...

I've started and restarted this about a zillion times. Let me just say this. BGSU fulfilled their end of a contract with Coach Brandon. BGSU chose to end a contract that it was obligated to honor. So to Really split hairs, we did not buy him out, we fulfilled what we said we would.

Every part of the University is feeling the effects of the Local, State, and US economic problems. I hate it and I know you do, too

But I would like to focus on the hope of a new era in football at BGSU. And I look forward to hearing about and getting to know the new assistant coaches and watching our team move forward.

Amidst all the problems you so clearly identify, there are still wonderful things going on at BGSU. New students are accepted and thrilled to be coming. First generations of kids coming to BGSU will be making a difference in their families and their communities for years to come.

So I am going to have to use the ignore button on you Professor Jackson. Nothing personal,

"It isn’t so much that the glass is half full or half empty as it is that I’m just grateful I have a damn glass." Just call me Pollyanna.