KU Fires Charlie Weiss

[1972Shocker]

Can't say I'm surprised. As bad a hire as Turner Gill was, hiring Charlie Weiss was a horrible decision. Hell he is still getting big bucks from Notre Dame.

http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article2282775.html

I don't particularly blame Charlie though. Hell, I kind of admire him. How can you be so extremely bad at your job and still make unbelievable amounts of money. Only in America.

[kcshocker11]

What a shock

[Play Angry]

Thank god Zenger is piloting yet another football coaching search...surest way to keep the flagship in the basement.

[shocka khan]

KU football is a joke!

[Aargh]

Maybe they can hire Terry Allen away from Missouri State?

[wufan]

Maybe they can hire Terry Allen away from Missouri State?

He has his sites set in the Sunbelt!

[MoValley John]

He has his sites set in the Sunbelt!

That simply is too funny! That was so easy it should be illegal!

[WSUwatcher]

KU needs a football program -- actually, an athletic department -- its basketball team can be proud of. Neither political correctness nor hiring a "name," sort of, has worked for them. And it's a little late to try to lure Gus Malzahn from Arkansas State.

Mark Mangino is laughing somewhere tonight (or maybe, at his size, a couple of somewheres).

[_kai_]

The guy is getting something like 25 million guaranteed to NOT coach football, from ND and KU.

Wow.

[tgcshock]

When some people criticize WSU's lack of a football team, I always reply "I don't see why it's a big deal, KU doesn't have one either!"

[RoyalShock]

When some people criticize WSU's lack of a football team, I always reply "I don't see why it's a big deal, KU doesn't have one either!"

Which makes this all that much worse. I mean, they fired a coach of a program they don't even have. Who's watching over things up there?

[WSUwatcher]

When some people criticize WSU's lack of a football team, I always reply "I don't see why it's a big deal, KU doesn't have one either!"

And the key difference is that they're spending a pile of money on their non-program, while WSU is able to use its money on building up its other sports instead.

[Kung Wu]

And the key difference is that they're spending a pile of money on their non-program, while WSU is able to use its money on building up its other sports instead.

It's still profitable isn't it? That's the impression I was under.

[Kung Wu]

KU Coaching Manual:

1) Negotiate killer buyout in contract right up front.
2) Suck.
3) Heap praise on basketball team to gain ya one extra year.
4) Get fired, and move out of Tiny-Town into a nice house on the coast and retire.