(11-04-2019 11:04 AM)salukiblue Wrote: Assuming everything else is equal.
He makes $2.6 million now.
I expect Memphis can get to maybe $3.2 million.
What will a program need to offer to beat Memphis and make it worth Norvell to leave?
$3.5 million? Is that the starting point?
https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/
If you want to keep Norvell based on money it will take , 10 million per year MINIMUM
Norvell would need $4 to $5,000,000 per and his assistants need to be at least on par with weak sister sec schools like S-Caroina Ole Miss and Arkansas
https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salarie.../assistant $5,000,000 is a starting point.
AND
Ole Miss/ Louisville /S-Carolina Spend over $700,000 recruiting in football (above board) and we spend less than $300,000 as far as I can tell.
Finishing the IPF quickly with no more "design delays" would help.... thanks TBOR
So when you say how much it would take , IMO we would need to make our job really the equivalent of a lower level sec/big12 team in not just head coaches salary but Assistant salaries, support staff salaries., etc. I think it is a tall order and competing with Bama, OhioSt and the like is a pipe dream --- it may be a pipe dream to compete monetarily with Ole Miss/S-Carolina/Louisville considering their $30,000,000 per year head start....
We probably need to pay him enough to make it difficult for a bottom dweller to think about paying more than us. Keep in mind he just turned down a raise in order to keep his buyout at $500,000