Vols setting disturbing precedent with salary spree for assistants

#26
#26
vollygirl said:
Cause if they wrote an article like that, we'd be the only ones to read it. Now, every other SEC team and major school will.
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It's also good in this fact:

As a recruit, would you rather have 1 really good HFC and a bunch of lackluster assistants (the ones who spend the most time with you) or the absolute best assemblance of coaches that money can buy?

This criticizing is unveiling what could be a blessing in disguise.
 
#27
#27
wildmovol said:
Why are people geting upset? We just spread the money around differently. If our total pay for coaches was 30-40% higher than anyone else I could see a problem....

Bottom line...who cares what other people think.
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...I was impressed with the way CLK and AD conducted this business. I would rather spread the wealth and get quality people than have one head coach making all of the bucks and not having quality assistants.

Quite frankly, some of the fellas CLK landed aren't making enough in my mind. I think Frank Wilson at $150,000 is a steal. I say that knowing he will earn more in one year than I do in three. However, I remember when Texas A&M was trying to lure Schembeckler away from Michigan offering what appeared to be ludicrous money for that day, Coach Bob Kinght, responding to the criticism that an English professor at A&M made very little in comparison, said "Does that English teacher have 80,000 people paying to watch him teach every week?"

No doubt, and we are seeing this daily in the headlines, our society has it's values messed up when it comes to what we compensate athletes, entertainers, etc. for their services...but as they used to say down South when I lived there, "If you want a good square dance you gotta pay the fiddler!"
 
#28
#28
VolinConcord said:
I agree. I do not understand why they are making a big deal out of our coaches paychecks, when we are, as stated in other posts and fact, only 4th overall. I was a little surprised to see the staff salary was only $600,000 over last years, I though it would be much higher. GO VOLS!
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4th in the SEC. I don't think we are even in top 10 nationally.
 
#29
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Lexvol said:
How many NCAA teams are going to begin luring reputable NFL coordinators to fill coordinator spots on their sidelines? Monte Kiffin is really an anomaly. Other than that these guys are all getting market value as far as I'm concerned.
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Good breakdown. What is astounding is not so much the money, but the way top notch recruiters from every key region in the nation all agreed to staff one program.

There's your precedent.
 
#33
#33
Too bad urban meyer didnt pay his ac's this much cash, cause then it would have been a good precedent.
 
#36
#36
The though that UT is overpaying for assistants is just silly. They paid much less that the going rate for a top tier SEC coach, and with the money they saved, they used it to hire a great supporting staff. I don't see what the problem is.
 
#37
#37
Who really cares what Stewart says. I heard CSS talking about the job Kiffin had done in such a short time and how next year would be a super-recruiting year for UT. This year he may not land the great prize players but at least he is in the mix, getting some visits and some looks from some "TOP" quality players.
 
#38
#38
I really wish you would have taken that info off page 2 for your thread title---

Vols Predicted #1 in 2010

[Which brings us back to February 2010, when -- mark it down now -- Tennessee will be sitting atop the recruiting rankings.

A large part of this assumption is based on a long-standing recruiting trend I like to call the "second-year bump." Whenever there's a coaching change at one of the nation's elite programs, almost inevitably, the new coach "takes the recruiting world by storm" with his first full class (the second upon his arrival). When Ohio State hired Jim Tressel, when USC hired Carroll, when Florida hired Meyer, when Notre Dame hired Weis and when Alabama hired Saban, all signed classes a year later that were ranked at or near No. 1 nationally.

Tennessee already figured to be the "hot" recruiting school this time next year regardless -- but with recruiters like Orgeron and Thompson on the job, the sky's the limit.]
 
#40
#40
So how long until the NCAA puts a cap on salaries trying to even things out even more?
 
#41
#41
hopefully not in my lifetime. Salary caps are bull! as Austin Powers said "yeah capitalism!"
 
#42
#42
OWB said:
So how long until the NCAA puts a cap on salaries trying to even things out even more?
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If they're going to do that ... why notput a cap on how much the school can spend on facilities? It's not fair that UT/UF/LSU have these enormous top-flight facilities when schools like MSU are struggling to keep up. Nothing like bringing socialism to College Football.

This is getting ridiculous.
 
#43
#43
I'm not sure I understand why this writer is so startled that UT is paying its assistant coaches more in order to augment a new HFC that doesn't have 1) any college hc experience, and 2) has no expreience in the SEC recruiting arena. We didn't pay him $4M, so we can afford to jack his assistants' salaries up a little. That simple.
 
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