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I think something that is important that a lot of people don't talk about or aren't considering is merit increases. I think paying a guy who hasn't coached a single game for you 10 million is bordering on insane. Start him at 7 but build in incentives. If he wins big for you then you up his pay. Pay him for what he's done for you. Not for the promise of what he might do. The starting salary for coaches should be well under what a program is willing to pay a coach. If that coach performs well then you pay him accordingly. If not, then you cut him lose and start over with the next guy without putting yourself in a huge hole. The problem is that coaching agents are evidently far savvier than their counterparts at universities so we've got these wild contracts that are heavily tilted in the favor of coaches.
Not sure we hired the right "Shelton" to make that happen, but if it did it would make the cheap-ass-and-greedy Pohlad family happy because it would be the only time Target Field gets filled in '26.
$5M would put us at 47th on the Coaches Salary Database
$7M would put us tied for 32nd on the Coaches Salary Database.
The offer is 5-7 at most depending on experience and qualifications.
That would barely put us in the Top 50 of head coaching salaries
Our fanbase needs to wake up and realize th climate has significantly changed since the last time we were good. The price to compete is significantly higher than it used to be.
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I'm not entirely sure that's a difference between us. I think you and I agree to an extent. I Don't think Franklin will take 7 million. But I also don't think VT should pay him 10-12. IF we get Franklin for 7 million that will be a major coup and I would feel pretty good about it. If we back up the brinks truck and pay him anything more than 8 or 9 I'm not going to be excited about it but I'll feel decent that we at least got a coach who should be pretty decent. If we end up hiring Bob Chesney for 4-5 million and give him 2-3 for his OC/DCs and another 1-2 for the rest of his staff I'll be super stoked and excited for football next year.
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I also miss DC. I hope that he can be reconsidered.
If the Agent is an ass, tell Franklin that the agent cost him the job and good luck elsewhere
Its the same agent for all of the candidates. If we aren't hiring coach A because of the agent, he is also representing coach B
If anyone is interested, here is a link to the discussion section of the Disney-YouTube fight. Thankfully, I'm not invested in sports that much, so refuse to pay for any of these. If I can't pick up a VT game on cable we have, I'm just not watching that week. Would rather listen to the VT radio broadcast online than pay these people even more.
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/disney-content-yanked-from-youtube-t...
One difference between you and me is that a salary of 10-12 million isn't an option for anybody to me. The offer is 5-7 at most depending on experience and qualifications. Franklin might get the high offer of 7. He is a coach that was fired for multiple reasons and has an offset clause. He accepts at 7 and gets 3-4 million for his staff or we TELL him to walk. In my mind, Franklin is first among equals, but is not essential and Whit has to be willing to walk away. If the Agent is an ass, tell Franklin that the agent cost him the job and good luck elsewhere. There is a time that everybody needs to be willing to walk away.
The money has been promised, it hasn't been raised and might not. We can't afford to hire somebody and then not be able to make the payments. Look at UNLV where Mullen is working on a contract that is bankrupting the school and causing them to stop payments to players.
There are multiple G5 up and comers that will accept a job between 5-7 in a heartbeat that might have a lower floor but about the same ceiling. For those G5 coachs, a 5 million dollar contract is at LEAST five times their current salary if not 10 times.
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I have no doubt that they are.
I hope they're working on plan B-Z because if (likely when) this falls through, I don't want to get stuck.
The longer this year goes on, the higher the chances are of VT falling in the head coach opening power ranking.
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I'd be in favor of an offer at $6-7MM + $2-3MM/yr deferred 5 years (or whenever the PSU contract ends) based on performance and longevity. He wins, his agent wins, PSU pays an offset, and the Hokies save some cash while hopefully generating more revenue with a better product on the field.