When does the AD pull the trigger?

Because the AD said the program was "stuck in neutral."   Ours is stuck in reverse and we can't do a damn thing about it even though the buyout is multitudes lesser than many other buyouts we've seen. At this point all I can hope for is our AD demands Mike make changes, the key one being offensive coordinator. But, Mike is too loyal to the Lynch clan. He's best buddies with them. Hell, if he removed Kevin he'd just replace him with Billy.   For the most part the defense is really solid and Stockton has done a good job there. Gotta wonder if he'll get any opportunities to move up. Other than the WMU game we've been in every MAC game and had chances to win those.  It's been the offense that's killed us.  Mike/Kevin are terrible in one score games. It feels like we're always just playing for field goals instead of TD's.  Same as last year.   (not their fault we dropped a sure TD vs UT though. There was a play to be made there and we didn't) If we'd had a productive offense the last two years we'd be looking at things far differently.  Something's gotta give.  

If the present head of the BSU football program is not in tune enough to know that serious changes should be made fire his a--.

Texas A&M has 2 of the Top 11 buyouts. A lot of variance in FBS programs. Someone compared BSU to what Texas A&M just did.  Quite a stretch.

Fisher did win a National Championship at Florida State. So he did win somewhere.

I agree on the hiring cheaper up and comer, but you can always point to the job Frank Solich did at Ohio as a counterpoint to that.

Scott Wooster teams can score points. Former GVSU coaches have fared well jumping up to D1.

After thinking about it there are as you'd expect plusses and minuses.

A lot of those fired big time coaches were once up and comers, so they probably know how to coach at a lower level. We're not going to get a real high salary guy anyway, but maybe a guy who failed at a lower P5 school.

One advantage is that if they really want to make a comeback, we can get them cheaper than we might think, the buyout they get is offset by our salary but they'll be relatively high income on our pay plus the rest of the buyout.

The question is judging how motivated they are. And are we a program that has a chance for them to come in and do well fairly quickly.

I like the up and comers mostly because they may have a good staff and bring it along. The fired top coach will have connections and if he serious about getting back in the game, and is credible in thinking he can do it, might be able to get a staff we can afford, since they are expecting to move on quickly after early success.

Which if that worked out might be just fine for us, our next head coach might come from that staff he hired.

Seems very likely we are NOT that attractive a job to the fired HC, more attractive to a lower level coach. Also fairly likely that coach faces a learning curve and isn't all that likely to do a quick rebuild. AD will like the possibility of a low budget hire.