onthefield
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The first rule of recruiting is understanding what motivates your target. Money is not always the top priority. Are their other drivers that might turn a target?:
- Family considerations can be a strong motivator
- An opportunity to become one of three coaches to get a Superbowl and NCAA National Championship ring
- The opportunity to restore glory to a wavering legendary football program - which would seal your legacy
- Sometimes doing what your conscience tells you is right and good
- Management styles - Are you given latitude to call all shots or do you have someone over your shoulder.
Oh and state income tax. It is a deal breaker for a lot of pro athletes and coaches would be no exception.
Most states, with state income tax, tax out-of-state pro athletes on a per game/pro rata basis when a game is played in that state. This is known as the "jock tax". When a Grizzlies' or Titans' player plays in California, Indiana, etc, he plays Non-Resident income taxes for the allocated pay for that game. Not sure about the tax status of the coaches for out of state games.
Professional Athletes' Big-League Tax Bills - Yahoo! Finance
Because nobody except Bobby Petrino would live in a piss hole like Arkansas. Gruden has no ties to Arkansas...why in the hell would he live there instead of Knoxville/East TN where he already has property and visits yearly?
UT will give him as much as he wants so the blank check play by Arkansas is a wash. Arkansas doesn't have near the tradition and national fan base UT has.
