I'd worry at Mizzou. Who would you work for, a president yet to be named or some radical willing to fast to get rid of you?
SI reporting ISU working on deal with Campbell
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Exactly. The economic dynamics of college sports is expanding at a rapid pace. Everyone is getting enriched big time, except the players who are producing all the revenue.
when have we paid market rates? A mid-range big 12 coaching salary would be about 3-3.5 million this year.
I mean look at the numbers. If you're looking to pay 1.5 million for a coach youre not even trying at this point. As a P5 team, we should probably be at least willing to pay a mid-range pay.
http://www.coacheshotseat.com/SalariesContracts.htm
Most job descriptions don't include "Big 12 coach", where most salaries are in the $3 mil range. If we're not willing to offer at least $2 mil, we're probably looking at the bottom of the barrel.
And who says offering in the $2-$3 mil range is mortgaging the ISU athletic department?
I agree. Sounds like good fundamental negotiating. Don't blow your entire authority too early.
This is the attitude that we have to get over. The ISu job is one of the tougher in the conference and we want a coach at half the price to win. Really, it's more important to have a top coach here, and top coaches get paid.
Depends. You dont just pay that to anyone. But if you cast a net with it being known youre only willing to pay much less, your opportunities are going to be limited to those options. You increase your chances of getting better results by opening up to a better class of candidate.
So your point is "let's keep paying for 'bottom-of-the-barrel' coaches and hope it goes better for us this time?"
I believe Einstein defined that as "Insanity".
I think an experienced HC who wins and is a former OC/OL coach is probably a good fit here. We are in the Big12, I'm glad we didn't hire another DC to the the HC. We live in Iowa, we need to have a good OL and running game.
If that's all you're going to come with then I'm glad it's not your decision to make.
It's common sense, you don't over pay just for the sake of overpaying. You offer them a fair price that they will accept. A 1-2 million dollar raise a year is pretty fair. Then if/when he starts winning, you renegotiate and he gets more. It's not like we are hiring Nick Saban or another elite coach deserving of a large contract at this point in time.
Well yeah, not when we set our offering price so low. You wont even get an interview without that.
And it seems like there's a large gap between Saban and the rest of the field.
