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Delaney Contract

GrizMusician said:
I would like to see how things turn out next year first... losing this class of seniors makes me nervous.

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I'm not as concerned. Some young kids have stepped up this year. Every year we go through this it seems and it isn't as bad after the first few games of the following season. Not the end of the World. Every team is losing some good players, not just us. I was very impressed with some of the younger QBs we played against this year. The Big Sky I bet will remain strong in the next few years. Hope our kickers step up or someone new steps up for them.
 
griz4life said:
You can begin scouting external candidates now by tracking the academic progress of their teams, whether or not their student athletes are have had off field problems and how those problems have been dealt with. You can begin analyzing the long-term recruiting strengths of potential candidates. You can decide now whether you want to stick with the schemes your team currently uses and begin scouting coaches who use those schemes.

If you think your current base salary for head coach is insufficient to attract your next coach, then you are way better off planning ahead for how you are going to increase the base salary for your next head coach, especially if your school is in a tough financial situation, as Montana is currently.

Montana would be way better off if it used Mick's time at UM to develop profiles on multiple potential candidates and then began planning on what it would take to make those candidates "available," assuming Montana's next head coach will be gainfully employed at the time the position of Griz head coach becomes available.

Joe Glenn wasn't exactly available when UM came knocking, neither was Bobby Hauck. They were both good hires and ones who were being looked at before their predecessors left. This will be the biggest decision Kent Haslam makes probably for the next 10 years, assuming he bucks the average tenure of UM athletic directors and lasts that long.
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You make some great points, but I think the world has changed since we hired Glenn and Bobby. We will have a hard time recruiting even position coaches from the Pac-12 with the salaries and short-term contracts we're currently offering coaches. Maybe we could find a good DII coach, but there just aren't many DII programs in our vicinity these days. Any names occur to you?
 
AllWeatherFan said:
The only way to have a plan in place to succeed an existing head coach is to plan to fill it internally, right? Otherwise, you can't know who will be available in a year, or two years or four.

I don't see any reason why Delaney can't coach 2-4 more years, as long as his team is producing results on the field. The "too old" thing is B.S.
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This!
 
I do have some potential candidates who might interest the Griz and aren't low hanging message board fruit. I don't think it's the right time to start posting names on egriz, though.
We have a winning coach preparing for the playoffs. Let's apprrciate that until we know what Mick wants to do.
 
griz4life said:
I do have some potential candidates who might interest the Griz and aren't low hanging message board fruit. I don't think it's the right time to start posting names on egriz, though.
We have a winning coach preparing for the playoffs. Let's apprrciate that until we know what Mick wants to do.
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By all means.
 
AllWeatherFan said:
We will have a hard time recruiting even position coaches from the Pac-12 with the salaries and short-term contracts we're currently offering coaches. Maybe we could find a good DII coach, but there just aren't many DII programs in our vicinity these days. Any names occur to you?
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With the system that we run now, I will be seriously pissed if Van Diest isn't in the conversation for head coach if Delaney decides he is through. The topic has been beaten to death, and some don't think he would make a good D-1 coach, but I call BS. His team competed very well last year when they played Portland State, and you don't win as many games as MVD has if you're not a good head coach, at any level.
 
I don't know if Delaney will get an extension, but one thing is for sure. He deserves a monogrammed handkerchief for his efforts the past two years. Just sayin
 
Greg Rachac ‏@CatGrizInsider 49s
News out of Missoula: #Griz coach Mick Delaney has been given a 1-year contract extension. Announcement coming shortly
 
I think this is good. I was worried about a 3 year contract. This provides stability, rewards Mick and the staff for this year, and gives the coaching staff another year to mature.

Hopefully Kent Haslam is working on his list for the eventual change.
 
grizpack said:
I think this is good. I was worried about a 3 year contract. This provides stability, rewards Mick and the staff for this year, and gives the coaching staff another year to mature.

Hopefully Kent Haslam is working on his list for the eventual change.
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It's in the Missoulian
 
hm.grwn.grizfan said:
AllWeatherFan said:
We will have a hard time recruiting even position coaches from the Pac-12 with the salaries and short-term contracts we're currently offering coaches. Maybe we could find a good DII coach, but there just aren't many DII programs in our vicinity these days. Any names occur to you?
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With the system that we run now, I will be seriously pissed if Van Diest isn't in the conversation for head coach if Delaney decides he is through. The topic has been beaten to death, and some don't think he would make a good D-1 coach, but I call BS. His team competed very well last year when they played Portland State, and you don't win as many games as MVD has if you're not a good head coach, at any level.
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You might as well start being pissy now
 
...delaney getz a one year deal...
...the caddy keepz on rolling...
...royce iz riding shotgun...
...what could go wrong...

... 8-) ...
 
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