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Franchione discontinues inside info newsletter for A&M boosters
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Texas A&M coach Dennis Franchione said he has stopped selling inside information on the Aggies in a newsletter to boosters who paid $1,200 per year in subscription fees that helped finance the coach's personal Web site.

About a dozen elite boosters subscribed for the past three years to the e-mail newsletter, called "VIP Connection." It offered Franchione's candid assessments of players and specific injury information, details Franchione routinely declined to discuss publicly because, he would say, it is not "our policy" to disclose injuries.
Franchione, who coached at New Mexico from 1992-97, made subscribers sign a confidentiality agreement and said he doesn't believe any of the inside information was used for gambling, the San Antonio Express-News reported in Friday editions after obtaining a copy of the newsletter through a "third-party source."


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No word on whether he answered how soon he'll be fired.
 
Joking aside ... the bigger story here is that one of the 12 "power boosters" decided to forward his confidential letter to the press.

After that debacle in Miami, the first elite booster has turned on him.

When the TV analysts calling your nationally televised game openly laugh at your misuse of roster talent, and your defensive scheme that is usually only seen at the high school level, you're in deep shit.
 
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BB73;943643; said:
Very considerate of him to offer refunds after he's discontinued the product.
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To be fair, Coach Fran's newsletter was originally $1850, but he cut the price 35% for early adopters.

Amazingly, he only ever got 12 paying customers.
 
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Re: Franchione, who coached at New Mexico from 1992-97, made subscribers sign a confidentiality agreement and said he doesn't believe any of the inside information was used for gambling, the San Antonio Express-News reported in Friday editions after obtaining a copy of the newsletter through a "third-party source."
"We asked them to sign something," Franchione said. "And for them not to do that. Most of these people are tremendously loyal Aggies."

Want to bet on that? :biggrin:
 
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Thump;955918; said:
ESPN - A&M rebukes Franchione, reports coach to NCAA - College Football
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