Montana State head coach Mike Kramer fired
Greg Rachac on the Billing Gazzette's Cat-Griz Insider is reporting that Montana State football coach Mike Kramer has been fired. This comes in the wake of arrests of former football players for dealing cocaine.
An e-mail from Montana State SID Bill Lamberty Friday afternoon announced that Bobcats coach Mike Kramer has been fired. The e-mail stated that, “Montana State University Athletic Director Peter Fields announced Friday that the University is exercising its option to terminate the contract of Mike Kramer, MSU’s head football coach for the past seven seasons.”There is also information in a press release on MSU's athletic page:
Fields was quoted in the e-mail, “Looking at the football program as a whole and in light of the recent criminal activities of former student-athletes connected to it, I believe there is something broken with our football program, and we need to take decisive steps to fix it.”
[MSU Athletic Director Peter Fields] met with MSU President Geoff Gamble and Vice President for Student Affairs Allen Yarnell on Friday. He said Gamble and Yarnell concurred that the cumulative effects of the program's troubles pointed to a "crisis in leadership" in Bobcat football.
"It starts with leadership," Fields said. "When you look at our football program's recent history, it is apparent that its direction does not fit with what this University is all about.
It is very impressive to see the administration step up on this one and attempt to get rid of what has been on-going problem. They very easily could've passed it off by saying that these are former players who are no longer affiliated with the program but they didn't. It also makes me wonder just how deep this whole situation goes.
You have got to be kidding me. You and I both know, if MSU won a National Championship last season, this firing would not have taken place. It is a chicken-sh*t move pulled by the Bow-Ties, err, Administration to make them selves feel better. There is no way that a coach can know what his players are doing when they are in season, let alone when it is May.
Well, the national championship didn't happen and this did. There has been quite a bit of off the field turmoil since Kramer took over and someone had to eventually take the fall. The AD should've been looked at too but someone had to be held accountable for this and it ended up being Kramer.
As the late Knute Rockne reportably said"I like players who can get into the end zone quicker than the"
Communion rail"
If I can recall, after almost 40 yrs, the 1972 Heisman tophy winner was in deep doo doo for criminal actions. The press took care of it.
This is College Football. The NFL conduct of players in legendary, where did they prep?
After spending about 40 yrs with 2 fortune 50 companies. Generally I have found that the top management sets the tone, so I wonder if the top administration put Mr Kramer in an untenable situation enviroment by their weak leadership.