The ongoing criticism of Idaho State University’s administration continued Wednesday, this time from outspoken ISU Hall of Fame quarterback Mike Machurek.

Machurek, who led the Bengals to the 1981 NCAA 1-AA national championship and was inducted into the ISU Hall of Fame in 1991, hopped on the Boise-based Caves and Prater Podcast on Wednesday to discuss his involvement with a group of ISU alumni and football donors withholding $80,000 until ISU Athletic Director Jeff Tingey is ousted. The group, which wrote a letter to the Journal published Aug. 6, originally called for Tingey and President Arthur Vailas to be removed before releasing the funds. Vailas announced his plan to retire next June during Wednesday’s Idaho State Board of Education meeting. Tingey signed a new two-year contract this summer that expires in June 2019.

Machurek was candid during his 15 minutes on the show. He said he met with Vailas earlier this summer to express his concerns, at which time he stopped donating to ISU athletics. He added he has since cut communication with ISU athletics.

“I told them I didn’t want anything to do with the athletic department again until the AD is gone,” Machurek told Jeff Caves and Mike Prater on KTIK 93.1 FM.

Tingey, who was hired as ISU’s AD in 2009, is the son of Kent Tingey, Idaho State’s vice president for university advancement.

Machurek doesn’t think Jeff Tingey is the right man for the job.

“There was no search for an athletic director,” Machurek said about Jeff Tingey’s hiring. “He’s never been the type of guy that anybody can talk to. He doesn’t have social skills. He doesn’t get along with the boosters. He’s gone out in front of everybody, saying he’s over his head in what he’s doing there.”

Machurek, who played at Holt Arena when it was a decade-old facility, said the Bengals’ 47-year-old home stadium now “looks like it’s an outdoor billboard museum.”

“It was a beautiful place to be recruited to (back then),” Machurek said.

Machurek blamed ISU’s coaching turnover rate on poor leadership and lack of funding. He also said coaches that come to ISU with necessary skills to build winning programs leave the school perceived as failures.

“It seems like we always have great coaches that come to us,” Machurek said. “They’ve got a job, they want to win, they want to move to the next level. But they come in great, and they go out as bad coaches. I think they’re all pretty darn good coaches, and the university is not giving them what they need to win.”

Regarding the University of Idaho’s impending move back into the Big Sky Conference, Machurek said the renewed instate rivalry is the least of ISU’s challenges.

“They can’t compete with anybody in the Big Sky right now,” Machurek said. “So I don’t see them competing with Idaho when they come down, especially right off the bat.”

Jeff Tingey declined to rebut any of Machurek’s indictments.

“I am focused on our football team, our soccer team and our volleyball team,” Tingey told the Journal by phone Thursday. “I’m focused on fundraising for the department and building for the future, and I’m not interested in getting into a he-said-she-said argument.”

Machurek said he doesn’t think Jeff Tingey will be removed as athletic director before his contract expires, but welcomed that day on behalf of many ISU supporters.

“It would be a great day for all the boosters at ISU that are on this bandwagon,” Machurek said. “I really don’t see anything happening that way. It’s unfortunate.”

Machurek’s full interview can be heard at ktik.com.