Spiro is adamant that Urban to MSU was a done deal and the BoT/Haller shot it down. Idk how much of that I believe. Part of me thinks Spiro pushes this agenda b/c he spent like 5 months campaigning for Urban to be hired. If Urban had the itch to coach that bad he could've thrown his name into the Bama mix... 10x easier to turn them around. LSU & USC will be looking for a new coach soon, let's see if he's a candidate for those jobs.
Kirby is making $13.2M, so MSU would have to offer Urban something like $15M. He's probably making $8-9M just to sit around the big noon desk and kick some easy takes around, no portal, no NIL...just doesn't seem like he'd be interested in this era.
With that said, if it's true that Haller did fukk up or stonewall any Urban to MSU efforts he absolutely deserved to be fired and his status as alumni revoked.
I think Haller is a good AD, particularly for non-revenue sports. He got hockey back to being a top tier program, WBB is back to being top 15-20ish, tennis, womens gymnastics...DODGEBALL. But I don't think he excelled at fundraising, and in the NIL era, that's probably the most important.
I've heard goofy rumors that he was fired b/c a 5* guard committed to Maryland this week after a "handshake deal" with Izzo was completed but the NIL wasn't organized.
