Gary Anderson out at Oregon State

[JALMOND]

http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2017/10/breaking_gary_andersen_out_as.html

Terrible start this season caps a terrible tenure as Beavers head coach.

[Laker]

I always thought that his move from Wisconsin to Oregon State was a step down. He said that he did it for family reasons and because the academic standards at Wisconsin were too high. Well, evidently they still get good smart players there instead of crappy ones..........

[Reign of Terrier]

Academic standards is a horse **** excuse for any coach to say he can't recruit. Look at Duke, Stanford, and even Vandy can recruit to stay relatively competitive in the SEC.

When you have thousands of admits in a class, you can afford to take a couple dozen L's with athletes every year.

Any college admissions councilor will tell you that if all they looked at was grades, most people wouldn't get into college.

[clenz]

He left a job where he was going to make 4-6m+ a year in the B10 West where he had it taylormade for him to win 9-11 games per year and make the B10 title game at least 50-60% of the time to go to Oregon freaking State.

I wouldn't hire him at my school simply because he's shown he doesn't understand how anything works

[Laker]

What do they do now- go back to Dennis Erickson?

[cx500d]

What do they do now- go back to Dennis Erickson?

He's 70, so I doubt it.

[citdog]

Beau Baldwin

[Laker]

Andersen wasn't fired but walked and volunteered to leave $11 million on the table, which would've been the buyout had he been fired.

Now why would he do that???

[citdog]

Andersen wasn't fired but walked and volunteered to leave $11 million on the table, which would've been the buyout had he been fired.

Now why would he do that???

Was he hanging out in Vegas with the Miami Dolphins O-Line Coach?

[dewey]

Andersen wasn't fired but walked and volunteered to leave $11 million on the table, which would've been the buyout had he been fired.

Now why would he do that???

I am shocked he would do that.

Here is an excerpt from an ESPN article.

Andersen signed a contract extension in December and had more than $12.4 million remaining on the deal. Oregon State owed him $883,332 for the rest of this season, $2.75 million for 2018, $2.85 million for 2019, $2.95 million for 2020 and $3.05 million for 2021.

"After many discussions with [athletic director] Scott [Barnes], waiving my contract is the correct decision and enables the young men and the program to move forward and concentrate on the rest of this season," Andersen said in a statement. "Coaching is not about the mighty dollar. It is about teaching and putting young men in a position to succeed on and off the field. Success comes when all parties involved are moving in the same direction."

PS...I will never forgive him for missing field goal in the 1999 NFC Championship game against the Atlanta Falcons. Dang it.

Dewey

[dgtw]

I could see taking a slightly smaller buyout to save face and resign and claim I want to spend time with family. But leaving every penny behind is just really odd.


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[walliver]

Big Time contracts aren't always what the seem. I suspect there is some money on the backend somewhere.

Or maybe he had enough money and was just tired of coaching.