Holding on to our BIG RED Security Blanket
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I don't think he up and leaves if he's not going to get most if not all of that $100 mill.
Numbers on Kelly/LSU have floated around - but it sounds like $9.5M base year 1 (and I am sure it goes up year over year) with incentives that push it well past $100M over 10 years. More details may leak out but that "$15M" number that was reported seems to be off reality. They are paying him right at what Saban makes with the potential for more based on incentives (I know Dabo's contract has some big incentives as well - as an example.....so pretty common on these top end contracts).
I realize it's one of those "we've ALWAYS done it" kind of deals, but if you're an AD who is paying millions of dollars to some gym rat to coach your college team, can someone here explain to me the motivation behind putting performance incentives into his contract.
It seems to me that contract 'incentives' for your new head coach are more of a marketing gimmick for the fans than anything else.
Don't trust the media to report the truth, they are in to big a hurry to report anything. He is right at 10 million per year, although its tough to live on that these days, sigh.
He had a good year, and they are betting the farm next year will be a good one too. Without a Martinez pick, they would have one less win
You know the problem I'm having with these coaches garnering 8 mil+, for the most part, haven't achieved squat.
So...how the F*** are WE going to get back to elite status w/o 1-paying a coach similar dollars, and 2-actually finding ANY coaches that fit the bill for getting us there in the 1st place, if all there is available are "also rans"?
Nebraska probably can't afford to up the ante to 12 mil/yr to get who? There is nobody out there, IMO, that can raise us from the dead on the field worth that kind of $.
So...how the F*** are WE going to get back to elite status w/o 1-paying a coach similar dollars, and 2-actually finding ANY coaches that fit the bill for getting us there in the 1st place, if all there is available are "also rans"?
Nebraska probably can't afford to up the ante to 12 mil/yr to get who? There is nobody out there, IMO, that can raise us from the dead on the field worth that kind of $.
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Paying that kind of money does not guarantee success. That's the problem with the escalated salaries. This is the first year Tucker had a really good season. Previous 3 were very average. Sound familiar? He could very easily "Scott Frost" from here on out. With all of ND's advantages, Kelly has taken them to 2 playoffs, only to get smoked in the semis in both of them. Franklin, Tucker, Shaw... no playoff appearances from any of them. Jimbo Fisher won an NC very early in his head coaching career then FSU regressed every year since, including a losing record before Texas A&M came calling. What has he done at A&M? A whole bunch of Bo Pelini type seasons. Most of these teams paying exorbitant salaries are not getting much bang for their buck. There are plenty of good coaches that can be had in the 3-5 million dollar range (that sounds absolutely ridiculous to even say!) that will get similar results to Franklin and Co.
But once they start having success, they’ll leave for a job making far more money. A school will benefit greatly if a successful coach wants to stay when they can make more elsewhere. SF would be the poster boy for this if the last 4 years hadn’t sucked so hard.
Agree wholeheartedly. But what was that old investment commercial about "earning" it. How the hell did Fisher land the A&M job and that salary after a losing season at FSU?
also read that a 1.2 M loan for his new abode is part of the package, along with a couple other things that my brain didn't retain. Go figure!
Without a punt to the wrong side of the field that was returned for a TD there would have been no Martinez pick.
Coaches salaries should be merit based.
You get a reasonable base salary, and the more success you have, obviously the more you get....each year.
So if your 1st year is good, your 2nd yr starts where the 1st ended + any Bowl success, and so on and so forth.
So the more successive yrs you have, the better your income.
I love common sense math. Just chucking out massive dollars w/o the "Car Fax" report is an invitation to laziness.
You get a reasonable base salary, and the more success you have, obviously the more you get....each year.
So if your 1st year is good, your 2nd yr starts where the 1st ended + any Bowl success, and so on and so forth.
So the more successive yrs you have, the better your income.
I love common sense math. Just chucking out massive dollars w/o the "Car Fax" report is an invitation to laziness.
I agree but the punt into left field occurred and the pick happened, ifs and buts don't count.
I think the point was that the wrong sided kick was the biggest error/turning point, and would have been most easily avoided.
I understand all that but all it did was tie the game, the pick ended our OT effort.
Yeah, I'm surprised we haven't heard anything as I thought Doc H (may have been another poster) had posted that things were being finalized. Probably a SNAFU that needs to be worked out.
