My Letter to Dan and the Administration

   Well said. On your advice, I wrote a letter to Mike Bohn today (Sunday). My original draft was far too negative. After sleeping on it, my letter became similar to yours. I was no longer angry, but let my frustrations be known.
   Bohn must realize that the “bellcow” of an athletic department is the football program. It is the most nationally visible aspect of the department and by far the biggest money maker (especially with our embarassing basketball attendance).
   An athletic director is judged by his ability to put the coaches in place that will head a successful football team. I am originally from Kansas and was witness to this at KU (which is a basketball school- we are not). Bob Fredrick had a 20 year tenure as the athletic director. He was responsible for hiring Roy Williams as basketball coach and a succesful Glen Mason as football coach. Beyond that, he kept the program clean and was chair of the NCAA ethics committee. He was an icon in Kansas. Unfortunately for Bob, he was also responsible for replacing Glen Mason (he left to coach Georgia) with Terry Allen (who happens to have a lot of similarities to Dan, look him up). The KU football team went into the tank. KU forced out Fredrick due to this singular failure.
   Bohn immediately had a great opportunity when he was hired. He had all the money he wanted to go get the best coach possible to clean up our program. Unfortunately, it is looking more and more like he made a poor choice. He has to know that the fans will not stand for this level of failure in their beloved football program. He must feel that it is HIS job Dan is putting on the line by fielding an unprepared team with a quarterback who should only play division 1 football on his Xbox. He needs to feel the pressure so heavily that he is forced to do something about it.
   I understand that this is all talk. Bohn made another huge mistake by signing an extension with a coach who had yet to show any improvement. Money is the ultimate deciding factor, there is no way around that – and we owe Dan 3 mill. if he is fired. I wonder if Bohn, who seems to be a smooth talker, can convince enough people in control of the school’s money that 15-20,000 empty seats every game and a huge loss in alumni support (who wants to send money to a team going nowhere?) will trump the 3 million hit we will take for firing Dan. I fear this is his only hope … and ours.
   Please follow Buffsnbruins lead and write to the administration. Let our pain be heard/

Here was my response from Bohn:

Thank you for taking the time to write. I am in receipt of your note and fully understand your frustration. We will keep working hard to improve in all facets of the program. Loyal supporters and fans like you are integral to our success and I urge you to stay with us. MB

Sounds to me as if Bohn is still as clueless as Hawk. Coffmonster, these idiots just don’t see what’s happening do they? Sort of like an advertisement posting for a pre-game weiner roast, “You bring the buns, we’ve got the meat!” My wife and I, she’s an alum, supported the football program since 1985, not another dime coming from this household! Hawk’s statements about giving Hansen the QB job over Cody, how long will this last? His word isn’t worth the ink and paper to write them on, so why take the time to write Bohn and express ones’ dissatisfaction, he’s the one responsible for this, not just Hawk! As has been posted on a couple of other threads on this site: Bringing Dave Logan back to coach, why would he want to step down from a program he’s built up to come back here, he has pride also!

i got the same response, word for word. our athletic department is in a sad state and being carried in unqualified hands. have you heard that Cody is to remain the “quarterback” in the two minute “offense”. i am at a loss.

on the Friday night before the game. And he sure looked like he had been drinking before his arrival. He promptly left after about a 10 second speech.