Will Muschamp Gets A Nice Pay Raise

I didn’t realize Malzahn had been given $1.5 million to stay at Auburn. That’s a lot of cash for a coordinator.

Good for him. I wonder how much money he’s going to have to play with for his staff.

Yeah but Mack Brown make $5 large bitches!

Can’t wait to see how much we’re going to have to pay to the next guy at either OC or DC positions.

Mack is overpaid

Good for Will

ALL SIGNS ARE POINTING TO TERYL AUSTIN. HE IS ON CAMPUS NOW

MIB — what you are seeing is a consequence of the ESPN/SEC television contract. Every school in that league has a lot of disposable income, they can use it to keep valued assistants at over-market prices, and they can use it to pay off coaches when they decide to ditch them.

I assume that the Head Coaches in the SEC will have shorter turn around opportunities because impatient Universities will be able to just go out and find someone else.

Sounds like Florida got a great deal. They got Muschamp at a cheap rate.

I assume that the Head Coaches in the SEC will have shorter turn around opportunities because impatient Universities will be able to just go out and find someone else.

That much pressure coupled with a labor force that is not allowed to accept so much as a stick of gum, I can’t possibly imagine how anything bad could happen.

Here’s where we’re at:

No offensive coordinator…still.

No defensive coordinator.

No special teams coordinator.

No offensive line coach.

AND MAD DOG IS STILL THE FUCKING STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH.

Honestly…I don’t see how things could get much worse.

But if we lose Applewhite, which is still a possibility…there will be blood.

“Auburn’s Gene Chizik makes $2.1 million a year”

Hell Cam Newton makes more than that.

Will Muschamp left because he’s pissed at Mack.

If Austin ends up in Austin, what happens to Shannon? I was really hoping he’d stay with Kentucky – they have a great offense already, would be nice to see what Shannon can do with the defense.

I like Muschamp, but I’m over him, too.

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Here’s where we’re at:

No offensive coordinator…still.

No defensive coordinator.

No special teams coordinator.

No offensive line coach.

AND MAD DOG IS STILL THE FUCKING STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH.

Honestly…I don’t see how things could get much worse.

But if we lose Applewhite, which is still a possibility…there will be blood.

Orangeblood79,

Chill man, I imagine we will have an OC after the Las Vegas Bowl, December 22.

Until there is significant fallout, Mack is doing exactly the right thing: taking his time to make the best hire he can make, shoring up the recruiting class, and shoring up the coaching staff. Everyone wants a slam dunk hire, and an immediate hire. They are not at all exactly the same thing.

They should have gotten Muschamp on the cheap, but they didn’t need a bargain HC gamble. The hire does seem impulsive.

Funny, on the Gator boards, they think their AD has lost his mind. They are livid pissed that they hired a no name DC that just went 5-7 and was unable to stop the run.

Muschamp wasn’t on anyone’s (at Florida) radar, and they think the hire was a whimsical one. They feel like they could have gotten a number of current successful head coaches to come in, if they would have shopped a bit.

Imagine if Mack Brown stepped down. Then Dodds announces three days later that the new coach would be the DC from University of Houston……after they didn’t make a bowl game.

We’d collectively shit.

I know that’s a bad comparison coach wise, but Florida fans for the most part don’t even know who Muschamp is.

When I was a kid, some guys would go to work in the oilfield and quickly strike it rich, or at least what they considered rich. They’d get all beered & coked up, buy big-ass four wheel drive trucks and pull their new jet boats to the lake. When they’d come to, they’d realize their trucks had been repo’d, their boats were sunk & the attorney general was after their asses for child support.

When I see how much Mack Brown is paid, compared to far more successful coaches, I think about those days, because if “we’re the Jones” all those dumbasses must have been named Jones.

What bat said. There is no hurry to hire coordinators or coaches. It is best to wait until after the bowl games in order to be respectful of other programs.

I am impressed to see what Auburn is paying their OC. That tells me we didn’t over-pay WM so much afterall and that pay for assistants is about to escalate.

Meanwhile, great football players like Cam Newton can only get a crummy $200k and that under the table. That kind of pay difference between player and coach is a very bad thing for college football.

… and it’s reported that Holgorsen has taken the OC/HCIW job at West Virginia with 2012 as the takeover date from Stewart. Good to see someone learned a lesson about “HCIW.”

Roach…

I’m trying to chill. Trust me, I am. But there are several recruits reported to be on the fence (Reed, Edmond, Russell, among them) and our offense sucked ass before we lost our OC. Though it may eventually be resurrected…we currently HAVE NO OFFENSE, which is even worse than an offense that sucks ass.

This is fucking Texas. We have, for decades, fucked up the coaching situation to the point where we settled for mediocrity when we should and could have been the dominant power in college football, but instead have one NC in 30 years and our coach is best known for being a nice guy.

I’m sick of this shit, and I will have a meltdown if I want to.

We’re back to comfort hires. Mack has officially entered last stage of Texas career.

Wait for the bowls to be over? Sorry fellas. That’s 20th Century thinking. Aggressive HCs are already making their deals with DCs and OCs—-even if by text message. Why do you think Auburn shored up Malzahn?

If you wait till the bowls end, you’ll be picking thru leftovers. Another relic’d way of prehistoric thinking. The recruiting/hiring game has changed A TON since you hired Mack, Deloss. Get with the program ASAP or face 4-5 losses guaranteed in 2011. OU, Okie St and Aggies on the road already smell like losses.

If we’re the Joneses, then hire like the Joneses—-quick and big. No excuses.

Posting DC requirements that would have excluded Chizik, Muschamp, and Smart? Hell, they exclude almost every DC in the nation and most NFL coaches they even exclude Mack, Saban, Urban Meyer, and Pete Carroll. What petty nonsense. I’m not renewing my season tickets. May buy two LSU tix until this toxic cloud blows out of Austin.

Auburn fans weren’t thrilled when it was announced Chizik would be they’re new coach…now he has them in the Championship game in his second year. You just never know.

ropeburn said:
December 14th, 2010 at 1:15 pm

Auburn fans weren’t thrilled when it was announced Chizik would be they’re new coach…now he has them in the Championship game in his second year. You just never know.

They also didn’t know a gravy train of money was going to be unleashed either.

Good to see someone learned a lesson about "HCIW."

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the HCIW tag – there just has to be some end date to make it work. Jimbo Fisher and Joker Phillips worked the HCIW tag well. UT and, I guess, Maryland, did not. HCIWs are here to stay.

I saw that Chip Brown is calling Austin the new DC.

“Imagine if Mack Brown stepped down. Then Dodds announces three days later that the new coach would be the DC from University of Houston……after they didn’t make a bowl game”

Yeah because hiring the DC of the University of Texas to be your head coach is the same thing as hiring the DC of the University of Houston.

Idiot.

I’m happy for the guy he got a raise and I wish him the best. Seems a bit weird, though, that he gives his input into the coaching changes and then decides to bolt. I guess Florida is a gig noone can pass up?

As far as Mack is concerned, we’ll see if he can get himself out of his mess and get the excitement back into UT football.