Slices of Tuna: We're all trying to find the guy who did this
Michigan State takes back its guy. Notre Dame is livin' large. And who knew CFB had a Don Draper among us 30 years ago?
Everyone over Monday night? Good!
1. More tampering! Oh my!
Imagine if someone fired a football coach, hired a new football coach, got his superiors to double his salary, then left his job 10 days later for another job — just two years after he took that job — and then watched his trusted lieutenant leave his job in part because of the boss’s initial departure, before ultimately deciding, more than five weeks later, that he wanted to reverse course and go back to his old job.
Sounds like the type of stunt a recruit would pull, right? Kind of like this:
Except this is a 60-year-old university president we’re talking about here, not a high schooler.
Meet Kevin Guskiewicz, president of Michigan State University, of the Big Ten Conference … and formerly president-elect of Clemson, for all of 40 days.
Those poor Tigers can’t catch a break when it comes to tampering, huh? Between this and Luke Ferrelli enrolling at Clemson before departing for Ole Miss — leading to Dabo Swinney going scorched earth on the Rebels — the waiver wire has not been a friend of Death Valley.
Throw in the fact that Guskiewicz had reportedly signed a term sheet with Clemson — and the fact that J Batt departed his AD job at Michigan State for Kentucky, due in no small part to the fact that his buyout decreased upon Guskiewicz’s departure — and this could get interesting from a legal/buyout perspective.
Hooray. More offseason headlines involving lawyers.
On a more practical note, we can’t really fault Michigan State here for putting on the full-court press to re-recruit Guskiewicz, although the age-old adage of “you lose ‘em how you got ‘em” keeps ringing in our heads.
No less than Tom Izzo made his thoughts clear on Guskiewicz’s impact, and quite frankly, if the man is that good, then he’s worth all of the trouble.
Why wouldn’t you tamper for talent?
