I see only 1 potential pitfall, and that's building a staff, outside of the members that stay who was under Napier. Everything else should be a solid win with Coach Des. If he can keep good staff coming in as guys take promotions, the sky is the limit for his Coaching Era.

(12-05-2021 02:52 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  

(12-05-2021 02:49 PM)Troy_Fan_15 Wrote:  That’s a good call up. This could be a long term head coach for Louisiana if he turns out to be good.

I am not all that crazy about long term coaches. Louisiana really got it right at 4 years with Napier.

You wouldn't have taken 6 years with Napier?

(12-06-2021 05:22 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(12-05-2021 02:52 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  

(12-05-2021 02:49 PM)Troy_Fan_15 Wrote:  That’s a good call up. This could be a long term head coach for Louisiana if he turns out to be good.

I am not all that crazy about long term coaches. Louisiana really got it right at 4 years with Napier.

You wouldn't have taken 6 years with Napier?

I think he's saying the longer a coach stays the harder it is to sustain success. I agree, 4 years seems to be the sweet spot. You don't want to end up in MTSU's situation.

Much lower profile hire than I expected, but if he can maintain the culture and content for conference titles it won't matter. The question is, will he be a Shawn Clark or a Chad Lunsford...

If he coaches like he played then the cajuns should be fine. The only question I would have would be can he and his staff continue the recruiting success. My understanding is that he himself is a pretty good recruiter. Will he have the staff that can do it too?

(12-06-2021 07:27 PM)WARDAWG93 Wrote:  If he coaches like he played then the cajuns should be fine. The only question I would have would be can he and his staff continue the recruiting success. My understanding is that he himself is a pretty good recruiter. Will he have the staff that can do it too?

Salary pool for staff remains at $2.5 million. That's a big question for us as well, to see who he can bring in to reload the key pieces of staff Napier is taking with him to Florida.

(12-06-2021 07:43 PM)Complacent Cajun Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:27 PM)WARDAWG93 Wrote:  If he coaches like he played then the cajuns should be fine. The only question I would have would be can he and his staff continue the recruiting success. My understanding is that he himself is a pretty good recruiter. Will he have the staff that can do it too?

Salary pool for staff remains at $2.5 million. That's a big question for us as well, to see who he can bring in to reload the key pieces of staff Napier is taking with him to Florida.

That's for the coaching staff. When you add the support staff, that number goes up considerably.

(12-06-2021 09:18 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:43 PM)Complacent Cajun Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:27 PM)WARDAWG93 Wrote:  If he coaches like he played then the cajuns should be fine. The only question I would have would be can he and his staff continue the recruiting success. My understanding is that he himself is a pretty good recruiter. Will he have the staff that can do it too?

Salary pool for staff remains at $2.5 million. That's a big question for us as well, to see who he can bring in to reload the key pieces of staff Napier is taking with him to Florida.

That's for the coaching staff. When you add the support staff, that number goes up considerably.

BoP, we may need you to pull double duty. Can you moonlight as a recruiting coordinator?

(12-06-2021 09:18 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:43 PM)Complacent Cajun Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:27 PM)WARDAWG93 Wrote:  If he coaches like he played then the cajuns should be fine. The only question I would have would be can he and his staff continue the recruiting success. My understanding is that he himself is a pretty good recruiter. Will he have the staff that can do it too?

Salary pool for staff remains at $2.5 million. That's a big question for us as well, to see who he can bring in to reload the key pieces of staff Napier is taking with him to Florida.

That's for the coaching staff. When you add the support staff, that number goes up considerably.

Isn’t it $3.77 million total? Support staff + assistants? That was my understanding from the last article I read regarding the pool money.

(12-06-2021 07:27 PM)WARDAWG93 Wrote:  If he coaches like he played then the cajuns should be fine. The only question I would have would be can he and his staff continue the recruiting success. My understanding is that he himself is a pretty good recruiter. Will he have the staff that can do it too?

I don’t recall if it was the intro presser earlier or a radio interview, but Maggard said that Dez recruited something like 25% of the scholarship players on our roster. Tim Leger is the recruiting coordinator and should be staying on staff as well. Rumors are McNeese will interview him for their HC gig but we can pay more to Tim as the OC than McNeese can as the HC.

(12-07-2021 10:08 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 09:18 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:43 PM)Complacent Cajun Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:27 PM)WARDAWG93 Wrote:  If he coaches like he played then the cajuns should be fine. The only question I would have would be can he and his staff continue the recruiting success. My understanding is that he himself is a pretty good recruiter. Will he have the staff that can do it too?

Salary pool for staff remains at $2.5 million. That's a big question for us as well, to see who he can bring in to reload the key pieces of staff Napier is taking with him to Florida.

That's for the coaching staff. When you add the support staff, that number goes up considerably.

Isn’t it $3.77 million total? Support staff + assistants? That was my understanding from the last article I read regarding the pool money.

$2.5M for support staff and analyst. Same as Napier.

(12-07-2021 10:13 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:27 PM)WARDAWG93 Wrote:  If he coaches like he played then the cajuns should be fine. The only question I would have would be can he and his staff continue the recruiting success. My understanding is that he himself is a pretty good recruiter. Will he have the staff that can do it too?

I don’t recall if it was the intro presser earlier or a radio interview, but Maggard said that Dez recruited something like 25% of the scholarship players on our roster. Tim Leger is the recruiting coordinator and should be staying on staff as well. Rumors are McNeese will interview him for their HC gig but we can pay more to Tim as the OC than McNeese can as the HC.

That place is a dumpster fire right now 5 coaches in 8 years. I heard Tim told them no thanks.

Florida fans are losing their collective minds right now because of Napiers recruiting approach. Already some #FireNapier stuff because he is wanting to reevaluate Mullen's recruits, which isn't surprising considering Mullen can't recruit well.

Will be interesting how long they give him to work his process before things start to burn.

(12-08-2021 08:23 AM)geauxcajuns Wrote:  

(12-07-2021 10:08 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 09:18 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:43 PM)Complacent Cajun Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:27 PM)WARDAWG93 Wrote:  If he coaches like he played then the cajuns should be fine. The only question I would have would be can he and his staff continue the recruiting success. My understanding is that he himself is a pretty good recruiter. Will he have the staff that can do it too?

Salary pool for staff remains at $2.5 million. That's a big question for us as well, to see who he can bring in to reload the key pieces of staff Napier is taking with him to Florida.

That's for the coaching staff. When you add the support staff, that number goes up considerably.

Isn’t it $3.77 million total? Support staff + assistants? That was my understanding from the last article I read regarding the pool money.

$2.5M for support staff and analyst. Same as Napier.

How does Louisiana pay this and run a budget deficit long-term? Is there something I'm missing? ECU did this and eventually began losing, which resulted in rhe firing of Scottie Montgomery and Jeff Compher and the hiring of Mike Houston who finally righted the ship 4 years later.

It's just very, very odd and concerning.

(12-08-2021 10:24 AM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(12-08-2021 08:23 AM)geauxcajuns Wrote:  

(12-07-2021 10:08 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 09:18 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:43 PM)Complacent Cajun Wrote:  Salary pool for staff remains at $2.5 million. That's a big question for us as well, to see who he can bring in to reload the key pieces of staff Napier is taking with him to Florida.

That's for the coaching staff. When you add the support staff, that number goes up considerably.

Isn’t it $3.77 million total? Support staff + assistants? That was my understanding from the last article I read regarding the pool money.

$2.5M for support staff and analyst. Same as Napier.

How does Louisiana pay this and run a budget deficit long-term? Is there something I'm missing? ECU did this and eventually began losing, which resulted in rhe firing of Scottie Montgomery and Jeff Compher and the hiring of Mike Houston who finally righted the ship 4 years later.

It's just very, very odd and concerning.

We dont really have a deficit what we do is at the end of the year we balance the budget off the general fund. Its complicated and the accounts have reasons for doing it that way.

The state gives each university 3% of the schools budget each year to use on athletics we stash that in the general fund and use it as needed and where needed. Our President is very good with money and we have a really nice nest egg if **** went south. He raised 305 Mill the last 5 years so I think we are fine for athletics and academic stuff

(12-08-2021 08:23 AM)geauxcajuns Wrote:  

(12-07-2021 10:08 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 09:18 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:43 PM)Complacent Cajun Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 07:27 PM)WARDAWG93 Wrote:  If he coaches like he played then the cajuns should be fine. The only question I would have would be can he and his staff continue the recruiting success. My understanding is that he himself is a pretty good recruiter. Will he have the staff that can do it too?

Salary pool for staff remains at $2.5 million. That's a big question for us as well, to see who he can bring in to reload the key pieces of staff Napier is taking with him to Florida.

That's for the coaching staff. When you add the support staff, that number goes up considerably.

Isn’t it $3.77 million total? Support staff + assistants? That was my understanding from the last article I read regarding the pool money.

$2.5M for support staff and analyst. Same as Napier.

If it's truly the "Same as Napier" then your numbers are suspect. That's why I asked Jay to confirm, because he hinted at it being greater than $2.5 mil in his earlier comments. Napier's pool was $3.77 mil for coaches and support staff per this article from 6/22/21. I will quote the relevant portion in case it's behind a paywall:

Quote:The new contract, which runs through Dec. 31, 2025, would nearly double the total value of Napier's previous deal, from $1.005 million in 2020 to $2 million. His contract also includes a $900,000 budget increase for his assistant coaches and staff, from $2.87 million to $3.77 million.

(12-08-2021 10:46 AM)Cajun_lannister Wrote:  

(12-08-2021 10:24 AM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(12-08-2021 08:23 AM)geauxcajuns Wrote:  

(12-07-2021 10:08 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 09:18 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  That's for the coaching staff. When you add the support staff, that number goes up considerably.

Isn’t it $3.77 million total? Support staff + assistants? That was my understanding from the last article I read regarding the pool money.

$2.5M for support staff and analyst. Same as Napier.

How does Louisiana pay this and run a budget deficit long-term? Is there something I'm missing? ECU did this and eventually began losing, which resulted in rhe firing of Scottie Montgomery and Jeff Compher and the hiring of Mike Houston who finally righted the ship 4 years later.

It's just very, very odd and concerning.

We dont really have a deficit what we do is at the end of the year we balance the budget off the general fund. Its complicated and the accounts have reasons for doing it that way.

The state gives each university 3% of the schools budget each year to use on athletics we stash that in the general fund and use it as needed and where needed. Our President is very good with money and we have a really nice nest egg if **** went south. He raised 305 Mill the last 5 years so I think we are fine for athletics and academic stuff

Where did the cash come from? $305 million is a ton of money for a G5 program and in 5 years no less. Is this a continuing thing or did they just build a nest egg to invest and use the returns for funding?

Wait and see hire.

(12-08-2021 01:46 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(12-08-2021 10:46 AM)Cajun_lannister Wrote:  

(12-08-2021 10:24 AM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(12-08-2021 08:23 AM)geauxcajuns Wrote:  

(12-07-2021 10:08 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  Isn’t it $3.77 million total? Support staff + assistants? That was my understanding from the last article I read regarding the pool money.

$2.5M for support staff and analyst. Same as Napier.

How does Louisiana pay this and run a budget deficit long-term? Is there something I'm missing? ECU did this and eventually began losing, which resulted in rhe firing of Scottie Montgomery and Jeff Compher and the hiring of Mike Houston who finally righted the ship 4 years later.

It's just very, very odd and concerning.

We dont really have a deficit what we do is at the end of the year we balance the budget off the general fund. Its complicated and the accounts have reasons for doing it that way.

The state gives each university 3% of the schools budget each year to use on athletics we stash that in the general fund and use it as needed and where needed. Our President is very good with money and we have a really nice nest egg if **** went south. He raised 305 Mill the last 5 years so I think we are fine for athletics and academic stuff

Where did the cash come from? $305 million is a ton of money for a G5 program and in 5 years no less. Is this a continuing thing or did they just build a nest egg to invest and use the returns for funding?

I see that Dick Tracy is on the case of the mystery Financials!

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(12-08-2021 01:46 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(12-08-2021 10:46 AM)Cajun_lannister Wrote:  

(12-08-2021 10:24 AM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(12-08-2021 08:23 AM)geauxcajuns Wrote:  

(12-07-2021 10:08 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  Isn’t it $3.77 million total? Support staff + assistants? That was my understanding from the last article I read regarding the pool money.

$2.5M for support staff and analyst. Same as Napier.

How does Louisiana pay this and run a budget deficit long-term? Is there something I'm missing? ECU did this and eventually began losing, which resulted in rhe firing of Scottie Montgomery and Jeff Compher and the hiring of Mike Houston who finally righted the ship 4 years later.

It's just very, very odd and concerning.

We dont really have a deficit what we do is at the end of the year we balance the budget off the general fund. Its complicated and the accounts have reasons for doing it that way.

The state gives each university 3% of the schools budget each year to use on athletics we stash that in the general fund and use it as needed and where needed. Our President is very good with money and we have a really nice nest egg if **** went south. He raised 305 Mill the last 5 years so I think we are fine for athletics and academic stuff

Where did the cash come from? $305 million is a ton of money for a G5 program and in 5 years no less. Is this a continuing thing or did they just build a nest egg to invest and use the returns for funding?

I don’t think that 305 million was all athletics. But to answer your question, during the 1980’s oil boom Lafayette had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the US. The economy is nowhere near as good these days, but there are still a good number of super rich families in town who have the means to make significant donations.