Coaching and Conferences

[java]

Having no time at work to surf the internet and no Wi-Fi at home to access the internet left me really out of touch since Tuesday.  I saw the scrolling notification that the CFP would expand to 12 teams in 2024. It’s about time!

Top offensive and defensive coordinators are already being paid salaries well over $1,000,000.  It appears to me that, at least in the SEC and possibly the Big 10, those salaries will escalate even more.  It goes without saying that successful head coaching salaries will escalate as well.

Having said that, I detest the contract that A&M gave Jimbo.  It was absurd.  I think the guaranteed part of the salary should be reasonable, rather than obscene, and the remainder based on incentives.

Your thoughts?

Hook ‘em!

 

[Eastexhorn]

I belive you are right on. Espically on Jimbo.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Having no time at work to surf the internet and no Wi-Fi at home to access the internet left me really out of touch since Tuesday.  I saw the scrolling notification that the CFP would expand to 12 teams in 2024. It’s about time!

Top offensive and defensive coordinators are already being paid salaries well over $1,000,000.  It appears to me that, at least in the SEC and possibly the Big 10, those salaries will escalate even more.  It goes without saying that successful head coaching salaries will escalate as well.

Having said that, I detest the contract that A&M gave Jimbo.  It was absurd.  I think the guaranteed part of the salary should be reasonable, rather than obscene, and the remainder based on incentives.

Your thoughts?

Hook ‘em!

When you have programs out there who become desperate, such as aggy, you get ridiculous contracts like this. Whoever made up the contract would have been fired for writing a contract like that in the private sector.

With every year that goes by, the one central theme with college athletics is MONEY. It's no longer competition or for the game. Its about the Benjamins. And unfortunately, that is detracting from what made the game special in the first place.

 

[UTfish]

Speaking of desperate, what have we heard regarding Colorado's contract terms with Sanders?

 

[java]

Not too long ago, Colorado was really hurting for money. Granted, the last time I was in that stadium was 20 years ago, but it was literally crumbling in places.

I suspect that Sanders has an enormous job in front of him, but with USC and UCLA’s impending departure from the PAC, I don’t see the TV contracts getting any larger. Didn’t they just lose the majority of the So Cal market.  Need I mention the situation that Stanford is in?

Schools are getting ready to find out what happens when their followers are indifferent to football.  If a school can’t carry their own weight, others are not going to be willing to subsidize them.

This has been coming for years.

EDIT:  Since I wrote this, I have been giving it a little more thought.  Consider what UT football has supported over the years.  In addition to many of our other sports programs, football gave 5 million a year to The University, and for more years than I want to count Texas supported the Southwest Conference, and later along with OU, The Big XII.

Is it more complicated than I have made it?  Sure, this is an oversimplified, snapshot view, but true.

Hook ‘em!

 

[longhorn_mig]

Speaking of desperate, what have we heard regarding Colorado's contract terms with Sanders?

Apparently it’s more than $5 million annually + incentives.