app state fires coach

[allcat]

Moore wanted to cmae back for 1 more year, but they canned him anyway. The guy only won 3 NC's

[WeedKillinCat]

I thought I read that he had decided at the beginning of the year to hang it up and then announce at the end of the year to avoid distractions???

[cats2506]

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Cobb said he met with Moore on Sunday morning and that Moore told him he would like to coach one more season. But Cobb said the decision that 2012 would be Moore’s final season at ASU had already been made after last season.

“We basically came to what I consider to be an agreement and thought was an agreement that this would be the swan song,” Cobb said.

Cobb said that part of the agreement was not to make the decision public that the 2012 season would be Moore’s last, so as not to create a distraction for the team.

“Candidly, it’s a difference of opinion on where the conversations were,” Cobb said. “And even some of the conversations we’ve had periodically since then. … At the end of the day, one person wants one thing, and one person wants another, and we’ll just have to agree to disagree.”

Cobb said he wouldn’t describe Moore’s departure as a case of him being fired.

“I really think a more accurate depiction … is the fact that we sat down and analyzed where we where and looking at a long-term vision of where we want the football program to go and felt like the proper thing to do for Coach was give him the ability to go out a champion, and that’s what he’s done.”

Asked why Moore will not return, Cobb said: “It’s just time.”