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(01-10-2014 03:54 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 03:47 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  So sure, we'd like to hire a million dollar coach, but the reality is that we're going to most likely pay between 300 and 500k, depending on who it is and what their experience is, and whether the guys on the BoT got a little lately and are in a good mood.

I don't think a $300k - $500k coach that can pull us out of this hole exists. I really want to be wrong, but can you do much better than Neil Callaway for $300k? He is the quintessential $300k head coach to me.

For the right guy we might can get to 600k, maybe a little more... but that will mean that the hire impresses hell out of the BoT which is ill inclined to do anything except watch us slide to oblivion, and that we go hat in hand to one of our few and often pestered big money donors for help with it.

It would really have to be just the right guy, and even then I think we'l look at a relatively low base contract with nice incentives if he gets it done on the field.