Dan Enos: smart or slimy?
Dan Enos was officially hired as Alabama QB coach. I don't know Mr. Enos. Never met him. He might be an upstanding guy. But something doesn't smell right. His contract at Arkansas had a no-compete clause with other SEC schools + a large buyout. So after 17 days in Ann Arbor as WR coach, he jumps to Tuscaloosa. This short term move cleared the way for him to avoid a buyout agreement he had with Arkansas and void the non-compete clause regarding joing another SEC staff. Maybe he and Mr. Harbaugh are great personal friends and Jim did him a favor? Does not seem logical. The move seems slimy. Thoughts?
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:55 PM ^
Don't care anymore. Out of sight out of mind
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:57 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 7:22 PM ^
well, he's MSU smart.
February 23rd, 2018 at 11:27 AM ^
He wanted to coach at Alabama and devised a way to make it happen. He was smart about how to work it, but it was done in a slimy way....
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:42 PM ^
February 23rd, 2018 at 2:06 PM ^
I thought the same thing about Arkansas' lawyers, but then I started to wonder what the actual provision says. Was Enos let go when Bielema got the axe? If so, a non-compete clause probably wouldn't even have effect. I have read elsewhere that his jumping around was unrelated to that clause but I haven't investigated.
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:56 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 9:35 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 10:16 PM ^
You've absolutely earned your screen name
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:56 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:33 PM ^
He's not a prick. He's just a big 'ol Penos.
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:57 PM ^
Don't want to provide no legal advice, but that course of conduct may be in violation of certain legal duties owed to Arkansas. But my personal view on non-compete clauses is that they are, themselves, an unfair and often anticompetitive burden on commerce and the professional livelihoods of hard-working Americans.
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:59 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:03 PM ^
See, there's this thing called the upvote arrow, and, well, it's there for like, stuff like agreement, as such.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:23 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:20 PM ^
or do I need to re-read this for the third time?
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:57 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:00 PM ^
I don't think Jim's hiring a guy at the height of recruiting season just to do him (and Bama) a favor.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
I agree, so that would seem to mean that Saban and Enos colluded to dupe Harbaugh, make him look foolish and in the process benefit themselves.
Wow that is slimy.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:24 PM ^
Enos and Saban, two former Spartans. I think you might be on to something.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:54 PM ^
I have wondered in the past if a recruit who has picked Alabama, and is sure he is going Alabama, has been told by Saben to put Michigan in his final group just to troll this fan base when officially anouncing for Alabama. Seems like a spartin thing to do.
February 22nd, 2018 at 9:37 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:20 PM ^
Enos played him. Plain and simple. Now lets shut those clowns out in the CFP the next two seasons.
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:57 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:26 PM ^
So what it the point of signing a contract with Harbaugh and then 17 days later signing one with Saban? He just got a better offer? Trying to circumvent an SEC non-compete seems a more plausible reason.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:33 PM ^
discussing his contract and the fact that there was no restriction on him. As to the why? I have no clue, you have to ask him.
Regardless, I am happy with what we have JM is a WR coach and that is what we needed. We did not need another QB coach.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:39 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 9:15 PM ^
The point of which is that he and Saban had no reason to use Michigan.
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:59 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 5:59 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:10 PM ^
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February 22nd, 2018 at 7:52 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:01 PM ^
If you're partial to unsubstantiated internet rumors (and we pretty much all are at one point or another), there are those who believe that Michigan State folk relayed the message to Dan that if he has ideas of ever becoming the head man at MSU, that he'd better not work for Michigan.
Do I believe this? Uh, I doubt that that alone would be able to cause him to leave a job he took just two weeks earlier. Now, he did recruit for Michigan in the short time he was here, which tells me that at one point he did intend to be here for some time. So...something happened. The job was attractive enough to him that he accepted it. Jim wanted him here because he contacted Enos the year before when Fisch left. Jim was surprised by Enos leaving. I'm not sure.
Maybe he decided he loves the South and wanted to stay there. Maybe he wants the Alabama job one day (idk about that, Dan) or another SEC job. Maybe that one year that Saban and Enos overlapped at MSU was so magical that it forged a bond for life. Idk. But it was almost certainly not Jim doing Enos a favor.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:07 PM ^
If true, that's funny considering that MSU's greatest football coach was an old Michigan assistant (Biggie Munn).
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:34 PM ^
Exactly, if that is true it is truly hilarious and stupid on their part.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:34 PM ^
According to Wikipedia, MSU won four national titles under Daugherty, as opposed to two under Munn. Doesn't that make him better by totally legit Wikipedia standards?
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:03 PM ^
Sorry, double posted.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:01 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:02 PM ^
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
February 22nd, 2018 at 8:36 PM ^
Just to add a bit more, I could see plausible, legitimate reasons to jump ship if a 'Bama--at least a peer institution in football--offered a better path to Enos's desired goal or made for an easier move for his family. I could also see it as a penny-pinching, mean-spirited move intended to injure and humiliate Michigan.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:03 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:03 PM ^
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:10 PM ^
it is both
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:06 PM ^
both smart *and* slimy
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:08 PM ^
Anus can go plug himself.
February 22nd, 2018 at 6:13 PM ^
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February 22nd, 2018 at 7:51 PM ^