When is the last time UT payed top dollar for a football coach?

[landscapingvol]

Going back to Majors, UT has not been willing to drop the kind of money many of you are suggesting in terms of getting rid of Dooley and hiring another new coach.

 

[EaglesVols91]

I know Kiffin's staff was the highest paid staff in the country.

 

[Jax_Vol]

For a football staff......2009......that was kiffy's call to spread it among the assistants.

 

[TNRazor]

The next time will be the first time. This isn't Mike Hamilton bumbling around and trying to just get a name on the dotted line. Dave Hart's been around, he'll make a good hire and get the ship sailing straight.

 

[JoseDaMofo]

I know Kiffin's staff was the highest paid staff in the country.

I thought it was just the assistants who were the highest paid as a group --HC (Kiffin) excluded. No?

 

[landscapingvol]

I hope you are right but part of the deal with Kiffin was that he was going to bring Orgeron and Monte Kiffin with him which drove up the price tag. If I am not mistaken, Orgeron was looking to get out after year one so that would have taken some of the luster off of that one.

 

[Dr H Lecter]

Other than Majors (who was a special "condition"), UT has never paid top dollar, nor hired a "named" coach in any sport. UT tries to catch up and comers,.

 

[Jax_Vol]

I thought it was just the assistants who were the highest paid as a group --HC (Kiffin) excluded. No?

True but Kiffy took less money so we had more to get the assistants he wanted

 

[YankeeVol]

They're gonna have to pony up if they want a real coach

 

[landscapingvol]

They're gonna have to pony up if they want a real coach

I don't believe they will and it would take a massive contract to get a name like Gruden

 

[crazyguy]

wasn't CPF near the top for a while? I thought he was the first to 2M?

 

[YankeeVol]

I don't believe they will and it would take a massive contract to get a name like Gruden

I agree. They probably won't

 

[VolFanKennyM]

Pat Summit made 3 million in her prime.

 

[EaglesVols91]

I thought it was just the assistants who were the highest paid as a group --HC (Kiffin) excluded. No?

That's why I said staff you dolt.

 

[BigVOLdaddyBVD]

last time UT paid top dollar for a coach? I'd say about 2010.....considering his suckage, i'd say the cost was astronomical for dooles

DooleyOUT....GRUDE in

 

[GAVol]

wasn't CPF near the top for a while? I thought he was the first to 2M?

Yes . . . For several years there, CPF was top 5 or so.

 

[Vol_Maul]

Next week.

 

[DeepSpringsVol]

Pat Summit made 3 million in her prime.

Not True.

 

[brando1083]

Going back to Majors, UT has not been willing to drop the kind of money many of you are suggesting in terms of getting rid of Dooley and hiring another new coach.

Dude we had the same coach for 16 years! Dropping "big" money was not around before fulmer. We've had two staffs in the "big" money era.. Both were failures

 

[RockyTop411]

We haven't had too, really.

 

[supersmo18]

The thing that concerns me about shelling out the bank for a big-name hire is that just because we do that, it doesn't guarantee success. Sure, you have a much better chance to succeed, but the odds of failure don't just go away. I'm taking a wait and see approach to all this.

And for the record, I could be wrong and that's fine if I am, but I still don't think Gruden will be our coach next year.

 

[supersmo18]

Pat Summit made 3 million in her prime.

Terrible first post.

Welcome to the board. :hi:

 

[Evol]

wasn't CPF near the top for a while? I thought he was the first to 2M?

I'm pretty sure he was the first to $2 millon. Its funny to look back on that now though. Such an insignificant amount of money by todays standards.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

Terrible first post.

Welcome to the board. :hi:

:lol:

 

[DL916]

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