iwantwinners said:
calumnus said:
ayetee11 said:
If the athletic department decides they want to win and fans can't get behind it, oh well.
Great, but without the fans, how will the Athletic Department pay his salary?
Do you seriously think he is the only coach who can produce wins at Cal? He is our only choice if we want to win?
do you really think there are that many deluded, sanctimonious fans that will stop spending money on a winner because Tosh is on the staff? 90% of these kinds of folks are probably on these boards.
You have created a false dilemma, one that you already admit is not true--Tosh as the only way we can recruit and win.
Even if Tosh is the greatest DC on the planet (and he hasnt been one yet) and we need him because Wilcox and Co are ineffective recruiters without him, the winning that only he can bring would be later, at least a year or two after he is hired.
The point is many of the fans and big donors (yes many on this board) know the story of how Tosh destroyed what was set to be one of the best recruiting classes of all time at Cal, his alma mater, and he did it while in our employ. Not just trying to get players to go to his new employer, UW, but anywhere but Cal--with players going to UCLA, Oregon etc. Eventually leading to Cal's continued demise, Tedford's health continuing to decline, his firing, Sonny Dykes, etc.
Now a lot of the above may not be true, but it is what a lot of fans and big donors believe, and we need them onboard. We cannot afford to lose any.
However, I have not heard Tosh's side of the story. I have not heard if he has any remorse over the way he handled himself and the impact he had on the program. If he were to come back, I would think that would need to be addressed--some reporter will ask him in the very least. Of course, that then brings up Wilcox's role in the whole thing as well....
The other thing I mentioned, the pay cut, appears to be de facto--if he came back to Cal he would be making less than at Alabama or another SEC program, so that alone would prove some love for his alma mater, which in the end is more convincing than anything he might say. If we would have to match Alabama's pay, first we couldnt, and we would be better off hiring the best OC in the business anyway. Wilcox has the defensive side pretty well handled.
So, if Tosh wants to come back, I am pretty sure the conditions I laid out would be met automatically--Tosh would be asked and have to say something about what happened to the press, fans, donors---Im sure he would spin it well--maybe Tedford and Sark are tge real villains and by necessity he would have taken a pay cut. All forgiven, right?