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(01-10-2014 04:31 PM)UAB?IAB Wrote:  1. Steve Spurrier Jr.
2. Tommy Bowden
3. Mike Bobo
4. Mike Stoops
5. Bill Clark
6. Randy Shannon
7. Chad Morris
8. Jim Tressel
9. Eddie Gran
10. Tracy Rocker

I would look into Clark and Gran from your list. I think Stoops, Morris and Tressel are too expensive. Maybe Bobo too. Shannon never impressed me at Miami. Rocker hasn't even been a coordinator anywhere yet, although that doesn't seem to be hurting Curtis Johnson at Tulane.

I won't be creating or suggesting any candidates, since apparently one of Mackin's prerequisites in a coach is someone no one has thought or heard of. The more names we throw out there, the more we reduce Mackin's pool of candidates.

(01-10-2014 05:33 PM)HSV_BLAZER Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 04:31 PM)UAB?IAB Wrote:  1. Steve Spurrier Jr.
2. Tommy Bowden
3. Mike Bobo
4. Mike Stoops
5. Bill Clark
6. Randy Shannon
7. Chad Morris
8. Jim Tressel
9. Eddie Gran
10. Tracy Rocker

I would look into Clark and Gran from your list. I think Stoops, Morris and Tressel are too expensive. Maybe Bobo too. Shannon never impressed me at Miami. Rocker hasn't even been a coordinator anywhere yet, although that doesn't seem to be hurting Curtis Johnson at Tulane.

1. Yeah those guys may be too expensive but you don't know until you ask.
2. Shannon big mistake was not being able to get the right oc but access to South Florida recruits would be a big plus.

(01-10-2014 05:27 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 05:26 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  I don't know if details were ever revealed beyond a major personality clash between him and the new president. But, if APR was the reason, then forget it! I do like the idea of Levitt, though, he was dismissed rather abruptly, too.

No I misread that, which is why I deleted my post. The APR issues stem from their basketball team apparently.

Leavitt hit a walk in during halftime in the locker room. He then got players and coaches to lie about it. Hence his extended absence from college coaching

Just a thought, but I also think it could be good to have someone leading the program who was once a part of it. And I don't even mean just as a coach. I mean a former player who believed in this program and committed 4 years (or however many years) to the program. They would understand the challenges and be most likely to have the belief in the program that would have the persistence and determination to help build the foundation of the program.

So the question is, do we know of any former players that are in coaching somewhere that could even be considered?

Someone had mentioned Darrell Hackney. He's at Savannah State as a QB coach.

http://ssuathletics.com/staff.aspx?staff=70

Why do you need a thread just for your own list? Aren't there plenty of other appropriate threads for you to share this in?

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/s...assistant/
2012 Base Salaries (Just for fun)
1. Steve Spurrier Jr. - $325,000(SCarolina)
2. Tommy Bowden
3. Mike Bobo - $585,000(Georgia)
4. Mike Stoops - $650,000(Oklahoma)
5. Bill Clark
6. Randy Shannon - $315,000(Arkansas)
7. Chad Morris - $1,300,000(Clemson)
8. Jim Tressel
9. Eddie Gran - $350,000(Cincinatti)
10. Tracy Rocker -

Mario Cristobal(Alabama) $475,000

CUSA
Alabama at Birmingham Garrick McGee $550,000
East Carolina Ruffin McNeill $1,150,000
Florida Atlantic Carl Pelini $496,124
Florida International Ron Turner $500,000
Louisiana Tech Skip Holtz $500,000
Marshall Doc Holliday $607,070
Middle Tennessee State Rick Stockstill $701,504
North Texas Dan McCarney $545,000
Rice David Bailiff $646,386
Southern Mississippi Todd Monken $700,000
Texas-El Paso Sean Kugler $500,000
Texas-San Antonio Larry Coker $350,000
Tulane Curtis Johnson ?????
Tulsa Bill Blankenship $619,549

Clark is pulling $175K at Just Show Up.

We could offer something that was both a profound salary bump for him and a relative bargain for us.

(01-11-2014 08:05 AM)Smaug Wrote:  Clark is pulling $175K at Just Show Up.

We could offer something that was both a profound salary bump for him and a relative bargain for us.

I think both he and Joey Jones (and others) would use any UAB interest as a pretense for a salary renegotiation...

(01-11-2014 08:13 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  

(01-11-2014 08:05 AM)Smaug Wrote:  Clark is pulling $175K at Just Show Up.

We could offer something that was both a profound salary bump for him and a relative bargain for us.

I think both he and Joey Jones (and others) would use any UAB interest as a pretense for a salary renegotiation...

Thanks for posting those salaries, very interesting. Clark is already the 3rd highest paid coach in the OVC.........doubt if they would bump him too much higher (maybe to 225-250?).