That seems like what you want to hear, not exactly what he said.
Trev
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Warren Buffet told me " he's a stand-up guy."
Pretty standard pro answer. Suppose you could read into that, "the buyout won't stand in the way" if you wanted to.
Nothing overly definitive in there, nor would I expect there to be
Nothing overly definitive in there, nor would I expect there to be
It's funny. You go to other forums on here and the other sport posters are singing Trev's praises. Check out the women's tennis thread for example. But of course the sport where we totally stunk it up is all Trev's fault.
Here is an example:
"This is really big news for all of athletics. Trev has done OUTSTANDING work this past 15 months since he was hired to turn around the finances of our athletic department. This year was the first year in a long time that the athletic department as a whole operated in the green. That includes paying off Jimbo's contract as well. For Trev to make this financial commitment immediately means he is confident in the athletic department's ability to sustain itself, even with revenue sharing coming into the mix.
This will undoubtedly help Mark cherry pick who he wants that can immediately make an impact and other players that can sit and develop for a little."
The financial commitment are scholarships across the board for all sports. A&M is one of the few schools to do it so far. Tennessee and Clemson have as well.
Here is an example:
"This is really big news for all of athletics. Trev has done OUTSTANDING work this past 15 months since he was hired to turn around the finances of our athletic department. This year was the first year in a long time that the athletic department as a whole operated in the green. That includes paying off Jimbo's contract as well. For Trev to make this financial commitment immediately means he is confident in the athletic department's ability to sustain itself, even with revenue sharing coming into the mix.
This will undoubtedly help Mark cherry pick who he wants that can immediately make an impact and other players that can sit and develop for a little."
The financial commitment are scholarships across the board for all sports. A&M is one of the few schools to do it so far. Tennessee and Clemson have as well.
LB12Diamond said:
It's funny. You go to other forums on here and the other sport posters are singing Trev's praises. Check out the women's tennis thread for example. But of course the sport where we totally stunk it up is all Trev's fault.
Exactly this. Nothing is his fault yet at all, as there is nothing to judge him by just yet, but people on premium tell you otherwise. That his seat is blazing hot no matter what happens.
NM
Too Chains said:
Agreed with the feedback on the situation from Trev.
If he was allowing POS to move, where was his grand plan for the successor regardless of timing? Regardless of how we feel about POS, if the following quote is even half true, Trev is inept. None of us in our own lives would tell an employee that unless we were ready to move on and have a plan to 'upgrade'.
"He said to me, 'You know, Jim, if you ever don't feel like this is the place for you, that's OK, and it's OK to move on.' I was little taken aback by that, and that was the moment that I began to think that maybe this wasn't going to work out."
ZERO chance I believe that quote from Schloss, who is a fantastic coach, and a ****ty human being.
especially since that meeting between Trev and Schloss was caused by Trev hearing the rumors of Schloss leaving. That is nothing more than revisionist history from Schloss trying to salvage his reputation.
We discussed this ad nauseum last year. That quote was in the context of Schloss having repeatedly ducked meetings with Alberts and on the building project. When Alberts finally cornered him, after the UGA series (and after being informed that Schloss had agreed to take the sip job), Alberts was trying to get him to come clean. Of course, Schloss lied or ducked the question, and then concocted the cemetery story saying that it all happened after the CWS.87_Was_Long_Ago said:Too Chains said:
Agreed with the feedback on the situation from Trev.
If he was allowing POS to move, where was his grand plan for the successor regardless of timing? Regardless of how we feel about POS, if the following quote is even half true, Trev is inept. None of us in our own lives would tell an employee that unless we were ready to move on and have a plan to 'upgrade'.
"He said to me, 'You know, Jim, if you ever don't feel like this is the place for you, that's OK, and it's OK to move on.' I was little taken aback by that, and that was the moment that I began to think that maybe this wasn't going to work out."
ZERO chance I believe that quote from Schloss, who is a fantastic coach, and a ****ty human being.
especially since that meeting between Trev and Schloss was caused by Trev hearing the rumors of Schloss leaving. That is nothing more than revisionist history from Schloss trying to salvage his reputation.
It's funny that a lot of people blame Alberts for not firing Schloss (which would have seen us paying Schloss a buyout) or somehow forcing the issue; yet, people get bent out of shape by this quote. Alberts did what he coudl to bring the situation to a head without derailing the season. Schloss just wasn't going to play along.
LOL He could have offered him the keys to the athletic department and Schlossbag was still going to tu when the job opened up. It's hilarious that some of you actually believe he was going to be here after Pierce was fired.fightintxaggie10 said:
I don't give a **** what anyone says he did nothing to prevent Schloss from leaving, and actually made it more easy for him to leave (fumbling the new stadium project, firing staffers of Schloss without alerting him first, and not talking contract extensions even when we were facing a national title run). That alone is unforgivable even if Schloss would of left anyway
Wes97 said:
I'm with you. Trev Albert's reputation around the college sports world (media and otherwise) is not good. His reputation as a jackass is well earned.
Just look at how he "left" ESPN. He stopped showing up for work because he was jealous of how the tier one talent on College Gameday was treated versus how he was.
He was managed to piss off (and run off) two head coaches here (and yes both of them had their issues I am well aware) and at least one other prominent head coach still on staff here doesn't have much positive to say about him. In fact I haven't heard any coach say anything all that positive about Trev.... although I will admit that I haven't checked in with the women's equestrian staff.
The only other prominent coach we have on staff is Henry. We do have several good women coaches.
With Schloss, I'd like to know if we had done things correctly (build the development center at a minimum) would that have mattered. I said to my baseball seat neighbors more than once the football construction was going on right in front of our faces and Schloss had to see it daily. He mentioned it frequently until he stopped. I'm sure it was the first ax he had to grind. I know he's an ass but we are not 100% blameless in this either.
In my opinion, the only thing that would have kept Schloss in College Station was David Pierce doing well enough in Austin that CDC couldn't fire him. It would have been interesting to see what had happened had the sips won game 2 of the regional in College Station. Could you imagine them eliminating us, then CDD firing Pierce in order to hire Schloss? I think Schloss's mental state must have been a wreck during the regional.TAMU1990 said:Wes97 said:
I'm with you. Trev Albert's reputation around the college sports world (media and otherwise) is not good. His reputation as a jackass is well earned.
Just look at how he "left" ESPN. He stopped showing up for work because he was jealous of how the tier one talent on College Gameday was treated versus how he was.
He was managed to piss off (and run off) two head coaches here (and yes both of them had their issues I am well aware) and at least one other prominent head coach still on staff here doesn't have much positive to say about him. In fact I haven't heard any coach say anything all that positive about Trev.... although I will admit that I haven't checked in with the women's equestrian staff.
The only other prominent coach we have on staff is Henry. We do have several good women coaches.
With Schloss, I'd like to know if we had done things correctly (build the development center at a minimum) would that have mattered. I said to my baseball seat neighbors more than once the football construction was going on right in front of our faces and Schloss had to see it daily. He mentioned it frequently until he stopped. I'm sure it was the first ax he had to grind. I know he's an ass but we are not 100% blameless in this either.
twk said:We discussed this ad nauseum last year. That quote was in the context of Schloss having repeatedly ducked meetings with Alberts and on the building project. When Alberts finally cornered him, after the UGA series (and after being informed that Schloss had agreed to take the sip job), Alberts was trying to get him to come clean. Of course, Schloss lied or ducked the question, and then concocted the cemetery story saying that it all happened after the CWS.87_Was_Long_Ago said:Too Chains said:
Agreed with the feedback on the situation from Trev.
If he was allowing POS to move, where was his grand plan for the successor regardless of timing? Regardless of how we feel about POS, if the following quote is even half true, Trev is inept. None of us in our own lives would tell an employee that unless we were ready to move on and have a plan to 'upgrade'.
"He said to me, 'You know, Jim, if you ever don't feel like this is the place for you, that's OK, and it's OK to move on.' I was little taken aback by that, and that was the moment that I began to think that maybe this wasn't going to work out."
ZERO chance I believe that quote from Schloss, who is a fantastic coach, and a ****ty human being.
especially since that meeting between Trev and Schloss was caused by Trev hearing the rumors of Schloss leaving. That is nothing more than revisionist history from Schloss trying to salvage his reputation.
It's funny that a lot of people blame Alberts for not firing Schloss (which would have seen us paying Schloss a buyout) or somehow forcing the issue; yet, people get bent out of shape by this quote. Alberts did what he coudl to bring the situation to a head without derailing the season. Schloss just wasn't going to play along.
Exactly this, it's interesting to me that Ags cannot see the truth in all of this. Trev handled this crap scenario about as good as could have been expected.
I guess that's where the line an unhappy Aggie line quote comes from.
The only area that we failed on was the hiring of Earley. But I'm willing to provide some grace on that one bc of the timing of everything.
That being said, what they do in the next month will be graded normally.
twk said:In my opinion, the only thing that would have kept Schloss in College Station was David Pierce doing well enough in Austin that CDC couldn't fire him. It would have been interesting to see what had happened had the sips won game 2 of the regional in College Station. Could you imagine them eliminating us, then CDD firing Pierce in order to hire Schloss? I think Schloss's mental state must have been a wreck during the regional.TAMU1990 said:Wes97 said:
I'm with you. Trev Albert's reputation around the college sports world (media and otherwise) is not good. His reputation as a jackass is well earned.
Just look at how he "left" ESPN. He stopped showing up for work because he was jealous of how the tier one talent on College Gameday was treated versus how he was.
He was managed to piss off (and run off) two head coaches here (and yes both of them had their issues I am well aware) and at least one other prominent head coach still on staff here doesn't have much positive to say about him. In fact I haven't heard any coach say anything all that positive about Trev.... although I will admit that I haven't checked in with the women's equestrian staff.
The only other prominent coach we have on staff is Henry. We do have several good women coaches.
With Schloss, I'd like to know if we had done things correctly (build the development center at a minimum) would that have mattered. I said to my baseball seat neighbors more than once the football construction was going on right in front of our faces and Schloss had to see it daily. He mentioned it frequently until he stopped. I'm sure it was the first ax he had to grind. I know he's an ass but we are not 100% blameless in this either.
He was in the stands scouting the Texas/ULL game after our 1st game… now we all know why. He wanted to confirm in his mind who he needed to cut and who to keep.
No, there is literally nothing we could have done.TAMU1990 said:Wes97 said:
I'm with you. Trev Albert's reputation around the college sports world (media and otherwise) is not good. His reputation as a jackass is well earned.
Just look at how he "left" ESPN. He stopped showing up for work because he was jealous of how the tier one talent on College Gameday was treated versus how he was.
He was managed to piss off (and run off) two head coaches here (and yes both of them had their issues I am well aware) and at least one other prominent head coach still on staff here doesn't have much positive to say about him. In fact I haven't heard any coach say anything all that positive about Trev.... although I will admit that I haven't checked in with the women's equestrian staff.
The only other prominent coach we have on staff is Henry. We do have several good women coaches.
With Schloss, I'd like to know if we had done things correctly (build the development center at a minimum) would that have mattered. I said to my baseball seat neighbors more than once the football construction was going on right in front of our faces and Schloss had to see it daily. He mentioned it frequently until he stopped. I'm sure it was the first ax he had to grind. I know he's an ass but we are not 100% blameless in this either.
Agree for the most part that Trev did better in this situation than some people think. The only thing that I wonder about is the preparation for POS inevitably leaving, because it seems Trev knew there was a very high probability that he would leave. Were we already inquiring about other coaches through back channels? Were we waiting until the end of our season to start doing that? I don 'think we'll ever really know the 100% truth, and at this point it really doesn't matter. We took a gamble in order to keep our players. It didn't work and there is no sign that it will ever work with Earley. Time to right the wrong and hire the next leader for this program.
I agree
But like a Faithful spouse, even though your gut is telling you what's happening. You still do not want to believe it. You still hope you can fix things.
It's a horrible situation. And us playing until the last game, the timing was messed up.
But like a Faithful spouse, even though your gut is telling you what's happening. You still do not want to believe it. You still hope you can fix things.
It's a horrible situation. And us playing until the last game, the timing was messed up.
It would have been interesting to see how all of this would have played out if we'd lost our first 2 in Omaha. The fact that we went literally until the last day of the season really put us in a bad spot as far as timing goes to hire another coach. ****ty situation all the way around. Nothing we can do about it now except use this time to find another coach.
Would Schloss have considered staying if he had won the Natty and Trev agreed to build him a swingers' clubhouse?
I'm convinced Trev is a sleeper cell for Longhorns sent to destroy us internally much like the Russians.
Artimus Gordon said:
Trev is fine. He has been left a mess to clean up by the previous two or three athletic directors. NIL is siphoning funds from operations. Jimbo's contract payout is a drain. Schlossnozzle wasn't going to be here any longer than BCG was. Both were looking for other jobs when they took this one. So get over it. I think everyone needs to get off Trev's back and let him sort this out.
Agreed. But he is easy to point fingers at.
Bucky hire I think will be brilliant.
Earley was forced. No right answer IMO. And Schloss was leaving regardless.
Far too soon to get able to make a conclusion on Trev. He needs several more years.
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