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The reworked deal came after MSU had three B10 championships in six years and a playoff berth. Since then, MSU has gone 27-24. His bonus kicks in today and must be paid by March 31. Goes to show the risk in setting up future deals based on past performance. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2020/0... / We will get by. We will get by. We will get by. We will survive. Back to Top cc-cat General User Member Since: 4/5/2006 Location: matthews, NC Post Count: 3,904 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/16/2020 12:33:18 PM  and..... https://www.msn.com/en-us/Sports/ncaafb/a-stunning-new-re... Back to Top Mark Lembright '85 General User Member Since: 8/22/2010 Location: Highland Heights, OH Post Count: 2,460 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/16/2020 2:42:58 PM  How is it Dantonio still has a job?!? I mean seriously. Back to Top OU_Country General User Member Since: 12/6/2005 Location: On the road between Athens and Madison County Post Count: 8,348 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/16/2020 4:20:05 PM  Mark Lembright '85 wrote: How is it Dantonio still has a job?!? I mean seriously. Caution....stirring the pot, but: Is Frank the MAC's version of Dantonio? (Minus the obvious scandal, which I'm thankful we're not hearing about anything of the sort in Athens) Back to Top BillyTheCat General User Member Since: 10/6/2012 Post Count: 9,998 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/16/2020 4:21:32 PM  cc-cat wrote: and..... https://www.msn.com/en-us/Sports/ncaafb/a-stunning-new-re... About the same number of sexual assaults our President is accused of (fact), so hey, if he’s not accountable, why should a football player or coach be. Back to Top Pataskala General User Member Since: 7/8/2010 Location: At least six feet away from anybody else Post Count: 9,336 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/16/2020 5:58:34 PM  OU_Country wrote: Mark Lembright '85 wrote: How is it Dantonio still has a job?!? I mean seriously. Caution....stirring the pot, but: Is Frank the MAC's version of Dantonio? (Minus the obvious scandal, which I'm thankful we're not hearing about anything of the sort in Athens) I don't think so. Over the last four seasons Solich averaged more than eight wins a season, while Dantonio averaged less than seven. Also I think Solich's bonuses were performance-based while Dantonio gets $4.3 million just for existing. We will get by. We will get by. We will get by. We will survive. Back to Top UpSan Bobcat General User Member Since: 8/30/2005 Location: Upper Sandusky, OH Post Count: 3,800 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/17/2020 9:58:09 AM  It's kind of the opposite to me. Michigan State had a few really good seasons and then a few really bad (by their standards). Ohio is consistently above average but not great. Back to Top OU_Country General User Member Since: 12/6/2005 Location: On the road between Athens and Madison County Post Count: 8,348 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/17/2020 10:00:28 AM  Pataskala wrote: OU_Country wrote: Mark Lembright '85 wrote: How is it Dantonio still has a job?!? I mean seriously. Caution....stirring the pot, but: Is Frank the MAC's version of Dantonio? (Minus the obvious scandal, which I'm thankful we're not hearing about anything of the sort in Athens) I don't think so. Over the last four seasons Solich averaged more than eight wins a season, while Dantonio averaged less than seven. Also I think Solich's bonuses were performance-based while Dantonio gets $4.3 million just for existing. Since 2015, they've both coached average to above average teams, and both have been to the conference championship game just once, both losing in that one appearance. Frank's teams average 8.2 wins a year since 2015, while Mark's average 7.8. Frank has won three bowl games (of 5) to Mark's two (of 4). Both have had recent so-called great recruiting classes that haven't panned out as well as expected. Plus, both teams wear green & white. I see a few parallel's there. Back to Top GoCats105 General User Member Since: 1/31/2006 Location: Seattle, WA Post Count: 7,174 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/17/2020 10:59:33 AM  OU_Country wrote: Pataskala wrote: OU_Country wrote: Mark Lembright '85 wrote: How is it Dantonio still has a job?!? I mean seriously. Caution....stirring the pot, but: Is Frank the MAC's version of Dantonio? (Minus the obvious scandal, which I'm thankful we're not hearing about anything of the sort in Athens) I don't think so. Over the last four seasons Solich averaged more than eight wins a season, while Dantonio averaged less than seven. Also I think Solich's bonuses were performance-based while Dantonio gets $4.3 million just for existing. Since 2015, they've both coached average to above average teams, and both have been to the conference championship game just once, both losing in that one appearance. Frank's teams average 8.2 wins a year since 2015, while Mark's average 7.8. Frank has won three bowl games (of 5) to Mark's two (of 4). Both have had recent so-called great recruiting classes that haven't panned out as well as expected. Plus, both teams wear green & white. I see a few parallel's there. Michigan State won their conference title in 2015 and haven't been back since. That was the year the lost to Bama in the College Football Playoff. Last Edited: 1/17/2020 11:00:29 AM by GoCats105 Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 14,354 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/17/2020 11:34:54 AM  Four players involved in sexual assault . . . and one of them had rap sheet going back to before he was a teenager: "When Michigan State recruited defensive end Auston Robertson, coaches reportedly knew of his sexual misconduct rap sheet, which dated back to when he was 11 years old, the Detroit News reported." Another quote from the article, about the four superstars of questionable character: "In the year that followed, Robertson, King, Corley, and Vance were all kicked off Michigan State's football team, and the man who recruited them, Curtis Blackwell, was fired over 'philosophical differences,' Dantonio said. Blackwell is now suing the university." Looks like a case of plausible deniability. Does anyone really think that the HC didn't have any idea they were dealing with young men with very suspect moral compasses? The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top Alan Swank General User Member Since: 12/11/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 7,103 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/17/2020 4:03:34 PM  Didn't we bring in a guy of rather questionable character from somewhere in VA? I think his last name began with an H. Back to Top GoCats105 General User Member Since: 1/31/2006 Location: Seattle, WA Post Count: 7,174 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/17/2020 5:48:47 PM  Alan Swank wrote: Didn't we bring in a guy of rather questionable character from somewhere in VA? I think his last name began with an H. Michael Hinton, Va Tech transfer. Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 14,354 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/18/2020 12:35:35 AM  GoCats105 wrote: Alan Swank wrote: Didn't we bring in a guy of rather questionable character from somewhere in VA? I think his last name began with an H. Michael Hinton, Va Tech transfer. This is not comparable in the least to the situation at MSU. Michael Hinton had some anger management issues and some weed issues that unfortunately he could not overcome. He was never accused of the kinds of things that are alleged at MSU. Frank took a chance that the young man could turn things around in a new environment, and his best efforts failed. While Hinton was here, he actually did some good work with helping young children in Glouster. The situation at MSU in terms of the sexual assault and inappropriate sexual behavior has been going on for more than 20 years -- and not just with football players. The whole culture of the athletic department there has been corrupt. I see these latest developments as just the latest in a long line of transgressions. Some of these have come to light in recent years, some have not. I was aware of the funny business going on there about 20 years ago via confidential information I received in my official position at OU-COM. I'm not at liberty to go into detail. But, there's a lot that's not right at MSU. Last Edited: 1/18/2020 12:42:13 AM by OhioCatFan The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top Maddog13 General User Member Since: 12/21/2004 Location: Albuquerque, NM Post Count: 725 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 1/28/2020 8:49:22 AM  Mark Lembright '85 wrote: How is it Dantonio still has a job?!? I mean seriously. I think Michigan State has bigger problems across the entire athletic department with all the recent scandals there to focus on, but I hear you, brother. A part of me is convinced that Dantonio will eventually do what Frank Solich did and settle with being a big fish in a small pond instead of continuing to drown in the Big Five ocean, especially since he does not appear to have the personality to Wow people in the broadcast booth. Ohio State seems so ahead of everyone else in the Big Ten in terms of the level of talent coming in. I just don't see how Dantonio competes with them and the likes of Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin, and now Minnesota in terms of recruiting. If I am a five star prospect coming out of high school, I am not going anywhere cold. Period! Back to Top OUcats82 General User Member Since: 1/9/2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH Post Count: 1,861 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 2/10/2020 10:24:45 AM  And the search for his replacement continues: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/college/universit... / Ohio-The State University Back to Top cbus cat fan General User Member Since: 12/2/2011 Post Count: 1,169 Status: Offline     RE: Dantonio's big bonus despite mediocrity    Posted: 2/12/2020 9:30:12 AM  The search is over Mel Tucker of Colorado has taken the job, something I am somewhat surprised by since I think he had a good thing going at Colorado. There's some choppy waters to navigate in East Lansing, while I though he had things pointed in the right direction at Boulder. Time will tell. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state... / Back to Top Showing Replies:   1 - 16  of 16 Posts Jump to Page:   1 View Other 'Ohio Football' Topics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               WHO'S ONLINE There are 197 Active Visitors on BobcatAttack.com 193 Guests 4 Registered Users:   bobcatsquared, cbarber357, Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame, OUbobcat9092 There are no other users looking at this page.

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