Who should our next HC be?
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Red Silk Smoking Jacket
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I think his performance incentives (speaking of) got him closer to $500K last year, but your point stands.
ColoradoHusk
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Why do fans post on here "we demand excellence and championship football, and settling for 7, 8, or 9 wins isn't Nebraska football" and then in the same breath, say "I think we should be able to get by on paying a guy bottom of the conference in terms of salary"? It makes no sense!!
The Scarlet Pimpernel
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I'd call $6-mil/year a lowball offer. You want an elite coach, you want an elite program, you gotta pay elite money.
Toe
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But you also have to be careful that you don't end up paying elite money to Mel Tucker...
Loe Doesnt Know
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Agree with your above post and the bold text is why I've felt all along that Trev (whom I believe is a very intelligent strategist) has always felt that MJ is the guy. Think about it, without any risk in damaging the season any further Trev is getting first hand knowledge on how MJ would lead. How athletes, media, administration personnel, B1G officials, etc.. etc... react and truth is, MJ is "ok" with a slightly lesser contract that is incentive driven, heck he's come out and said he wants his coaching staff taken care of. (First the athletes, then the coaches, then administrators and he'll take whats left).. Is this not an AD's perfect scenario? Personally, I'm a Dan Lanning fan (Oregon's HC) and not far behind him is Kalen DeBoer (Washington's HC). After that I really don't think any other mentioned coaches (maybe Lane, Rhule) bring anymore calm to Trev's decision. Lance, Aranda, Doeren all have Head Coaching experience but also haven't really won anything. Monken (Army HC) imo has as much upside as Liepold, Aranda, Doeren and also runs an offense much like Bo did... We don't know what offense MJ would implement if he's hired but there's someone that does, Trev..
I honestly think, when the dust settles, regardless of whom is hired, in the end MJ will be able to say "I did my best" and yes, imo, I hope he says that in 2040 after winning 3 naty's
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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I think MJ is giving it is best shot and is hoping for the best, but is well aware of his own limitations. There's a big difference between being a position coach and a head coach at a D1 university. I think he'll be perfectly content knowing he did his best, and remaining on-staff with a hefty pay raise and perhaps the title of recruiting coordinator.
Red Five
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I read that article this morning and put zero validity to it and didn't think it was worth the share on here. Not sure if he has edited it, but the amount of grammatical/proofreading errors this morning was enough for me to never visit that website again.
Red Five
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If we want to play with the big boys of the conference, then act like it. Our bare minimum should be $7M.
B1G Salaries
Tucker $9.5M
Day $7.6M
Franklin $7.5M
Harbaugh $7.3M
Ferentz $7.0M
Fitzgerald $5.7M
Chryst $5.2M
Fleck $5.0M
Brohm $4.8M
Allen $4.7M
Bielema $4.2M
Frost $4.0M
Schiano $4.0M
Locksley $2.5M
Red Five
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This is where I am obligated to say we offer LaVar Woods of Iowa $1M to come to our side of the Missouri River.
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Red Silk Smoking Jacket
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For who? That’s a nice raise for a lot of the guys I’ve seen mentioned. Under market for some others. All depends on who we’re talking about and what they’ve accomplished. Can’t really look at these things in a vacuum here. Can’t say we need to pay $10M and then go pay a Leipold or Mickey that.
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