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Does anyone have any information on Dilfer's Contract? How long? How much $? Incentives?

It isn’t complete yet.

Gonna guess it is 5 years and less than Clark but with good incentive and some commitment from UAB in terms of staff and support.

Hearing more money for assistants.

(12-01-2022 10:43 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Hearing more money for assistants.

Thats the key! We need to be able to attract a very good for the G5 level staff.

(12-01-2022 10:43 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Hearing more money for assistants.

This is what I was thinking. Charlotte kind of set the tone for how this round is going to be. Coach with lower salary to allow for a larger assistant pool. Biff is getting $1M with (IIRC) $2.15M for assistants. I hope we're a bit higher than that.

(12-01-2022 10:23 AM)DuelingDragon Wrote:  It isn’t complete yet.

Gonna guess it is 5 years and less than Clark but with good incentive and some commitment from UAB in terms of staff and support.

How much was Clark making in his last year? Dilfer may have made as much money as Clark coaching high school.

(12-01-2022 03:28 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(12-01-2022 10:23 AM)DuelingDragon Wrote:  It isn’t complete yet.

Gonna guess it is 5 years and less than Clark but with good incentive and some commitment from UAB in terms of staff and support.

How much was Clark making in his last year? Dilfer may have made as much money as Clark coaching high school.

$1,615,000

(12-01-2022 10:43 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Hearing more money for assistants.

Makes sense. He did say that he had a "golden parachute" from ESPN.

As for Dilfer's alleged $1.2 salary from Lipscomb, I am guessing that is not accurate. The original source for that, I think, was a blog from Clay Travis' Outkick site, and it said something along the lines that he was paid that amount "just for coaching football," which may or may not have been from Lipscomb only. (It could have been from his Elite 11 camps, etc.)

The blog post that is circulating from the dad of a player at Lipscomb refutes that figure completely. "No. Trent wasn’t paid anywhere near $1.2 million a year." (https://brenthigh.wordpress.com/2022/11/...nt-dilfer/)

I know that elite private schools like that might have lots of money--one of my sons-in-law is a graduate of Lipscomb HS and it's always been a big $$ school--but I think everyone felt that was an outrageous salary for a high school coach--and probably because it is not true.

Sorry, I just meant his total revenue while being a high school coach. I assume it includes external things he does that I’m not sure he’ll have as much time or ability to do as a D1 head coach. So there’s opportunity cost for him potentially in taking this role.

I think we are gonna be happy with the assistants

(12-01-2022 06:25 PM)DuelingDragon Wrote:  I think we are gonna be happy with the assistants

+1

Any whispers on who they will be?

(12-01-2022 08:35 PM)Golden-Ticket Wrote:  Any whispers on who they will be?

Yes. Coach Dilfer whispered directly into my left year some of his picks (honestly, a little breathy and moist for my comfort level)...but I promised not to whisper it to anybody else.

You lucky dog. All he did was whisper in my right ear the new Transfer portal guy

Chris told me it was a good staff on the way.

(12-01-2022 04:20 PM)bftb Wrote:  As for Dilfer's alleged $1.2 salary from Lipscomb, I am guessing that is not accurate. The original source for that, I think, was a blog from Clay Travis' Outkick site, and it said something along the lines that he was paid that amount "just for coaching football," which may or may not have been from Lipscomb only. (It could have been from his Elite 11 camps, etc.)

The blog post that is circulating from the dad of a player at Lipscomb refutes that figure completely. "No. Trent wasn’t paid anywhere near $1.2 million a year." (https://brenthigh.wordpress.com/2022/11/...nt-dilfer/)

I know that elite private schools like that might have lots of money--one of my sons-in-law is a graduate of Lipscomb HS and it's always been a big $$ school--but I think everyone felt that was an outrageous salary for a high school coach--and probably because it is not true.

If you look back at the original post, it says that some of that figure was poured back into the program for equipment, etc. I suspect that the figure is more reflective of the investment he required the school to put into football.