Boots Fired

[coach15]

should a man that has been a fixture at one unversity for nearly 40 years be treated the way he has....can you honestly blame him for two 4-8 seasons...this man could raise as much money as anybody for MTSU but the great Pres. of the University fired him

[Let'em Play]

i thought he retired

[muffin]

That is a disgrace,why not fire the football coach?

[goldenboy]

Boots

[southernpride]

This is a much more complex issue than has been talked about in the press!

 

Boots is a great football coach and one that will always be remembered as THE FOOTBALL COACH at MTSU! He moved up to A.D. when they brought in the new coach and moved up to DI-A. He has been a mentor and coach to hundreds of coaches across the state and he will be missed.

[bhsOL]

i thought he retired

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He was forced to resign. Kinda like Richard Nixon.

[ajc]

MTSU wants to take their athletic program to a place that Boots isn't an expert in. "Old school" administrators are great for fundraising from alumni, etc but not if you want run a program into a different arena. I'm not saying someone else will do a better job, I just think MTSU wants to bring in some new blood that can impress the "pockets" of a new Murfreesboro.

[bhsOL]

MTSU wants to take their athletic program to a place that Boots isn't an expert in.  "Old school" administrators are great for fundraising from alumni, etc but not if you want run a program into a different arena.  I'm not saying someone else will do a better job, I just think MTSU wants to bring in some new blood that can impress the "pockets" of a new Murfreesboro.

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Now that was very well said.

[coach15]

thats a good point...but they didnt have to fire him the way they did

[Guest Oakland]

thats a good point...but they didnt have to fire him the way they did

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McPhee gave him the option of going out quietly, but boots decided to try to play the pity card and then have the audacity(or stupidity) to claim that this was a conspiracy theory against. boots buried his own grave

[goldenboy]

Would he still be at the school if he would have fired Coach Mac?

[Guest Oakland]

Would he still be at the school if he would have fired Coach Mac?

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Boots had bigger problems that mccollum's performance as a coach. boots often had this defeatist attitude, which isnt good for a 1-A program that is trying to compete with the big boys. i think even boots biggest supporters will shyly admit that they are glad to see him gone.

 

as for hiring a AD though, i would love to see us go after Andy Geiger of Ohio St. geiger is retiring in a few months and was a pretty good athletic director for tOSU and i think he would be a good fit at middle, a guy that could make middle a top notch athletic program