The school said Franchione thought he did not have to report the income until he actually received the proceeds that exceeded expenses incurred for maintaining the Web site

For any of us that have created, had, or maintained a website, if he wasn't covering his costs for that website with a $1,200 subscriber fee, then we need:

(4) - The school suggested that Fran's head may in fact be up his ass.

I heard the guys on AM 1300 discussing this earlier, and it was suggested that if he in fact violated his contract (by not reporting outside income), then they could possibly fire him without buying out the contract.  Not sure if that's true or not, but it sounds reasonable.

Personally, I'd kind of like to see him stay at A&M for a while. ;-)

They have all of their non-disclosure agreements up on the statesman's website, along with their email addresses.   I was thinking about sending them some "inside information" - like "A&M Sucks!!!" and "You're an idiot for paying $1200 for worthless information."  But I decided to take the high road and just laugh at them.

it's all about the buyout...

These will all be used as negotiating points when they talk to Fran seriously about "resigning", particularly when it comes to the payout.  

In spite of all the fans screaming, and the talk about how the money doesn't matter, they're looking at a huge payout right now, and those big dollars are a lot easier to blithely wave off when you're just making noise on the radio or the internet than when you're actually cutting a check for real money of your own...

I'm kinda hoping they win just enough to make the old "tough schedule" excuse and keep him on for another year.  Hmmmmmmm, another year of Frantastic recruiting....

to get as righteously indignant about these cruel accusations and innuendo as possible, since it would be an absolute disaster if Dennis Franchione were not the coach of the Texas A&M Aggies. Should he be forced to move out of College Station, so would Coach Leach have to sell his vacation home that he maintains inside Franchione's head on Saturdays. That's bad.

Leave Coach Fran alone!

Coach Fran's wife, Kim, was my 3rd grade teacher. She was a fox.

More pointless information to follow...

the game between Tech and A&M is billed as the national game of disinterest. One would think that a coach would be happy with being paid over a million dollars and be too busy preparing for the next game to have time typing a newsletter with a high subscription cost. But just like the spoken word version of a rap song as covered by William Shatner Franchione found a way. I take that back, he did not find a way since they were battling Fresno State in overtime and were exposed by Miami.