Rittenberg calls out Fitz re: JON
- Thread starter Medill '03
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Dear Adam Rittenberg: please show up to Fitz’s remaining press conferences and ask him why this happened until he answers. Bring Wilbon and Greenberg along too. Your alma mater needs you!
Really. Any other school would put massive pressure on this.
Thank you, Adam. Legitimate media and alumni calling this crap out.
Just like a QB change wouldn't happen? Fitz is stubborn but he is not dumb. Take your cynicism elsewhere
I wonder what made Rittenberg call it selfish. That’s an interesting new take.
My guess is he finds it selfish because it was clearly a buddy hire not a hire based on skill. On top of that it’s very selfish to not cut your losses when you’re still at the table but bankrupt.
Fitz (and NU football as we have known it) is toast if he keeps JON. He's got to figure that out sooner or later.
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Almost any other school. Brian Ferentz still has a job.
I think every day JON is the active DC is another strike against this belief.
There was no good reason to keep JON in his role over the bye week. Consistency or stability are not inherent virtues if they are actively contributing to failure.
He also has a massive buyout.
But he’s actually won a conference championship or two. And will go to a bowl game.
We’re going to have to fight, scratch, and claw to beat Iowa or Purdue for our second win this season, and our fifth of the last two.
Who cares if JON is competent if he’s complementary?
And fire the coaching staff. All of them.
Fitz won't fire people mid season and I have no problem with that philosophy. I will have a problem if O'Neil is the DC at NU after this season. I am almost certain that won't happen.
What won't happen, he will or won't be DC after this season? Fitz risks losing this team and recruiting if they continue on the path to 1-11.
I thought my phrasing was pretty clear. I don't think O'Neil will be the DC beyond this season.
Because Fitz does not like humiliating people that work for him and I am just fine with that. One way or another, I am confident Fitz knows O'Neil cannot be his DC beyond this season just like he knew McCall could no longer be his OC after the 2019 season.
I'm not sure that firing the DC mid-season prevents us from going 1-11. Unless we want to give somebody currently on-staff the chance to win the job, I'm not sure there's much to be gained.
I presume there will be more options to replace him in the off-season than there would be mid-season.
No, not prevents 1-11, but prevents total collapse of NU football as we have known it since 1995.
Where are all the former players for and teammates of PF? It’s called enabling.
Fvck - there goes any chance of JON being gone…
What pressure do you think you can put on Fitz? If you don't do as we want we will pay you $70 million to chill at home with your kids?
Who said anything about pressure? FItz will make the change because he hates to lose and even he won’t be able to give O’Neil the benefit of the doubt after this season. He may be slow to convince himself of what needs to be done but don’t for a minute doubt Fitz’s desire to do what he has to do within the rules to win.
The hire was questionable when it happened, it was a disaster on his first play as DC, and it's been a continuing disaster since.
There was a brief respite when Fitz was more hands on last year, but in his now 5th year as a DC at any level he's halfway through a 5th year of managing a defense ranked at the bottom of the level.
How much more evidence do we need that he should not have this job.
There was a brief respite when Fitz was more hands on last year, but in his now 5th year as a DC at any level he's halfway through a 5th year of managing a defense ranked at the bottom of the level.
How much more evidence do we need that he should not have this job.
"How much more evidence do we need that he should not have this job."
Thats not the issue. He has the job. Our defensive talent is undersized and/or slow for the most part. Do they look poorly coached? Yes, they do.
But, what do you get by firing JON now? NU still has to pay him.
I knew after the first play from scrimmage against MSU.
His salary is peanuts in the grand scheme of things. It's not the salary. That's really just pennies to the program in the grand scheme of things.
Question is why we haven't been able to promote a DC given the relative stability we had on the staff before the past couple of years.
I get that McGarigle is young and just joined a couple years ago. MacPherson's been on the staff for a long time and was put on the defensive side of the ball at the same time McGarigle got here.
Just seems Fitz doesn't think anybody on the staff was ready when he made the JON hire, but is that still true now?
Well, we've got to keep saying that, or NU is not going to have a competitive football team anytime soon.
He'd rather humiliate the entire program, the University and all of us alumni.
Tough crap, boo effing hoo. JON must go
Give somebody on the staff a chance at DC for the final 5 games. What exactly do we have to lose?
They could threaten to keep him on and assign him janitorial work like Chris Collins did Johnnie Vassar in basketball.
