The Unofficial Furman Football Page

Sometimes I do feel guilty for caring about college sports ... Thankfully, I think Furman is about as clean as it gets! This is a good quick read on how bad it is out there:

https://sports.yahoo.com/nca-as-broken- ... 31216.html

"A month after being accused of physically abusing players and an assistant coach — among other boorish behavior — Gregg Marshall stepped down as Wichita State’s men’s basketball coach.

He received $7.75 million to do so. ... "

Someone on here argued with me that high-paid Football coaches and CEOs are the same. I don't think that's true. If you choked and punched people (or something analogous) as a CEO you would not find another job - at least at a similar level. But coaches just get hired and rehired.. heck, Hugh Freeze is still making big money after a lot of trouble at Ole Miss and also his calls to escort services etc. And he is right back in the running as a top candidate for the USC job. Usually CEOs with that history are not picked up again

In our county we recently had a very high paid school superintendent get fired for threatening to choke an employee (called him out to the parking lot to do it and didn’t know he was being recorded). He was snapped up for a high level management job at Savannah River Site (same town) within a couple of weeks. So the craziness isn’t just a sports thing.

Furmanoid wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:59 am

In our county we recently had a very high paid school superintendent get fired for threatening to choke an employee (called him out to the parking lot to do it and didn’t know he was being recorded). He was snapped up for a high level management job at Savannah River Site (same town) within a couple of weeks. So the craziness isn’t just a sports thing.

crazy.. good point. But did the school pay him 7.75 million for firing him FOR CAUSE? ... (Kudos to the Wolfpack), as they took the road less traveled - You shouldn't pay an "exit check" when the firing is For Cause. Muschamp is different. He just lost. He is contractually owed (right or wrong) his crazy amount of money. But Marshall should not have been paid a check when he was fired for improprieties.

I used the wrong word. He wasn’t fired. He decided to pursue other opportunities after the county paid him off. But it wasn’t millions. There was a big uproar anyway since not allowing him to choke people was clearly systemic racism in the eyes of many.

Google Mark Hurd’s resignation as CEO of HP & subsequent SOFT landing as President, then Co-CEO of Oracle (also former CEO of NCR and former FUBeAR client)...passed away in 2019.

Happens all the time in the Corporate world

FUBeAR wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:27 am

Google Mark Hurd’s resignation as CEO of HP & subsequent SOFT landing as President, then Co-CEO of Oracle (also former CEO of NCR and former FUBeAR client)...passed away in 2019.

Happens all the time in the Corporate world

FUBeAR, thanks, will do