(12-03-2015 02:47 PM)mj4life Wrote: (12-03-2015 01:48 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: I'm still DEEPLY unsold on Fedora, and find this move to be foolish and short sighted. Unless they're planning on letting him ride out that probation hell over the next few years.
I would like to see a couple of good seasons before committing major dollars to Fedora but that's not possible with so many openings along with the perception that UNC is unwilling to spend on football. He would definitel take the first decent job he could get if you don't commit more resources his way. The university just has to be ready to eat this contract
This is unfortunately just a fact of life, and the cost of doing business as a big boy. The college football landscape is littered with coaches collecting on prematurely extended/inflated contracts. Charlie Weiss anyone?
It's one of the huge reasons that resources are so important. It's not whether you can come up with an extra $1.5 milling to go from paying $2.5M a year to $4M. In the grand scheme of things in athletic budgets, that's just not that much money for successful coach even at medium size athletic departments.
The real money comes in when you have to fire these guys, pay their buyouts, and pay for a new guy. That's a reason why you can have a Virginia riding out four losing seasons with London, YEARS past the point anyone outside his immediate family thought he could be successful there, and you can have LSU barely blinking at the prospect of $15M to send Miles packing.
It's not the coaching salaries to watch so much in the ACC...it's their willingness to pull the trigger on changes and absorb those costs. So far, I'm pleasantly surprised. We all knew London was gone, but would anyone have been shocked to see Miami give Golden the year, and then retain him at 8-4? Would it have surprised anyone to see Shafer given another year at Syracuse?
Ad that to what appears to be strong hires so far, retaining the few guys that may have some other suitors (Jimbo, Dabo, maybe Cutcliff and presumably Fedora, to a lesser extent maybe you could even say Venables and Chizik though we've got a ways to go on that), there are some indications that schools in the ACC are getting more serious about football.
Dave Doeren's job is probably the next one to keep an eye on. He's doing the kind of job that could traditionally get you 5-6 years in the ACC. But considering the new trends and the upgrade in coaching in the ACC, and the fact that NCSU has actually been probably a bit more trigger happy than most in the conference...that one might be interesting next year.