In Reply to: Re: Full scale rebellion posted by jerseybruin on September 15, 2024 at 11:35:28
Chip wasn't fired because the department is bankrupt and Jarmond is under review for contract extension by an incoming chancellor. The $4mm buyout couldn't be paid, it would've damaged Jarmond's fiscal results, and the public sentiment after outrageously bad losses to Cal and ASU at home wouldn't favor a new deal for Chip. So, Jarmond was stuck. He did what government bureaucrats do: Nothing. He did nothing hoping he could get Chip to coach for one more year, then fire him after 2024 with no penalty.
It almost worked, but then tOSU job opened late and Chip moved on. Most people blame Chip for this mess but it was clearly Morgan Center incompetence.
Like many here, you believe you can read minds. You don't know Chip (presumably) have never spoken to him (presumably) yet you're convinced you can see into his mind and determine that he didn't like recruiting. You somehow also know, without evidence, that he avoided it and hired assistants who wouldn't recruit (Malloe was hired with Latu in-tow).
This is all to say that your premise is entirely imaginary. You have no idea how Chip felt about recruiting or anything else. All you know is what you've been told to think by the Bruin media, which were decidedly anti-Chip because he disregarded them completely.
The objective reality is Chip had no money with which to compete for talent. His department was bankrupt and Morgan Center was thwarting NIL from the outset. What little NIL Chip ultimately had, he used in the portal to quite good effect.
(The era where HS recruiting is critical has passed. NIL is now a far more efficient market for talent. HS recruits are JV players who may pan out one day but even then, they may pan out after transferring away. Consider the new era and forget the old one.)
The OL is partly Chip's responsibility but its mostly the current regime's doing. They brought in a completely unsuitable right guard from UNLV. They might as well put a traffic cone at his position each down. Chip needs faster, smaller, more athletic linemen not blubbery, clumsy, slow linemen and I speculate he'd rather have a TE play that position that an un-athletic, immobile pretender.
The greater point is that Morgan Center needs to be walled off from football. This will take some doing, if it can be done at all. Another bankruptcy might do the trick, forcing Ucla's hand financially. That won't happen until the end of the B10 contract. Until then, we don't have a credible football program.