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5 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Who is going to hire the Arizona State coach?

Dillingham, Lea, and Brent Key are interesting situations - all 3 are at their alma mater and could be still considered somewhat "1-hit wonders" at this stage (ie can they do it consistently or have they just lucked into a stud QB for now?).

Does anyone have enough confidence in them to do what it would take to pull them away? My guess is not yet this year.

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9 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

Dillingham, Lea, and Brent Key are interesting situations - all 3 are at their alma mater and could be still considered somewhat "1-hit wonders" at this stage (ie can they do it consistently or have they just lucked into a stud QB for now?).

Does anyone have enough confidence in them to do what it would take to pull them away? My guess is not yet this year.

With Lea, if Vandy is financially committed to winning, he should stay.  That's now a good job.  Arizona State should be a good job but they've never been committed so it'll be interested what he does.

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23 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

Dillingham, Lea, and Brent Key are interesting situations - all 3 are at their alma mater and could be still considered somewhat "1-hit wonders" at this stage (ie can they do it consistently or have they just lucked into a stud QB for now?).

Does anyone have enough confidence in them to do what it would take to pull them away? My guess is not yet this year.

I think Dillingham is the most likely to stay. He's already shown he can make the playoffs there. It's also an easier place to recruit as long as UCLA and USC are committed to losing.

Vandy and GT are just tougher jobs - since they have to compete with the SEC for recruits. GT always seems to have talent but just can't compete with UGA for instate kids. 

Vandy has the resources and could certainly could match any offer if they chose to do so, but I'd think it's harder to hide academic risks. I'm not sure they'd be willing to have a degree path exclusively for jocks like some schools (looking at you, Cal).

That said, all three might just stay until they are a victim of their own success. 

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UF's contractual obligation to Napier isn't nearly as dumb as aggy's to Jimbo. No offset is just mind-numbingly stupid, though. That's not an unreasonable expectation.

 

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3 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

UF's contractual obligation to Napier isn't nearly as dumb as aggy's to Jimbo. No offset is just mind-numbingly stupid, though. That's not an unreasonable expectation.

Same with Mullen and McElwain.

Thankfully none were prohibitively large.

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5 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

20 million here, 20 million there….pretry soon you’re talking real money.

Depends on who you are comparing too. But yeah, it does add up.

McElwain was I think $7.5 M and Mullen was $12.

On the flipside, we made out on the basketball deal. Mike White bailed for Georgia before we fired him, so instead of paying him $3.5M, he had to pay us $1.25M

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1 minute ago, gatormarc said:

Depends on who you are comparing too. But yeah, it does add up.

McElwain was I think $7.5 M and Mullen was $12.

On the flipside, we made out on the basketball deal. Mike White bailed for Georgia before we fired him, so instead of paying him $3.5M, he had to pay us $1.25M

My post was more tongue in cheek about how casually college FB fans talk about eyewatering amounts of money that should lead to failed corches leaving generational wealth. 

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1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

My post was more tongue in cheek about how casually college FB fans talk about eyewatering amounts of money that should lead to failed corches leaving generational wealth. 

Oh I hate all of it.

I still remember when it was a big deal that Spurrier became the highest paid coach in college at $2M/year.

I think I'm just numb to it at this point. 

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This is the worst time to fire a coach with all these openings. Most of these guys will end up trading jobs with each other. “Welcome your new head coach we’re super excited about after firing the last guy for failing expectations we have replaced him with this new guy who also was just fired and failed miserably at meeting expectations”

 

I would love to see some D2 up and comer coach get a shot. 

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In the world of money dumping that is 2025 College Sports, I'd love to see someone money whip Dillingham, because I do think he's special,  or Elko just to fuck with aggy.

Posted
7 minutes ago, Iceman said:

The numbers shouldn't bother any of us.  If the revenue wasn't there, they wouldn't do it.

and if it isn't, fuck em.

Counterpoint: The revenue comes from people buying tickets and making donations and those costs are spiraling to where bringing up the next generation in the stands is cost-prohibitive to families on a reasonable budget. 

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8 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

This is the worst time to fire a coach with all these openings. Most of these guys will end up trading jobs with each other. “Welcome your new head coach we’re super excited about after firing the last guy for failing expectations we have replaced him with this new guy who also was just fired and failed miserably at meeting expectations”

 

I would love to see some D2 up and comer coach get a shot. 

Yes. At this point, if you don’t have to fire your corch you should wait. 
 

Cignetti came up from the FCS ranks. But that worked because it was IU. 

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2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Counterpoint: The revenue comes from people buying tickets and making donations and those costs are spiraling to where bringing up the next generation in the stands is cost-prohibitive to families on a reasonable budget. 

All of those activities are 100% optional.

Average Joe and Jane football fans aren't supplying the juice on this squeeze.

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7 minutes ago, Iceman said:

All of those activities are 100% optional.

Average Joe and Jane football fans aren't supplying the juice on this squeeze.

I mean, we will see how long this lasts and what it means long term. I see a bubble that will explode.  A lot of athletic departments would be distressed assets if state institutions weren’t ultimately on the hook here. 
 

Its like NIL, which was sold as “let the kids do car commercials but morphed into ‘pay the backup TE 300 dollars directly.” I think it’s all headed for a crash landing.  But maybe Saudi PE is the answer, PE works everywhere! 

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