After the last several years of paying Saban a lot of money, do you think LSU is trying to go the cheap route? if we are going after Nutt and BP so heavily, I think LSU is just trying to go cheap. With the cash they have been paying Saban, I am sure there are better coaches out there that LSU can persuade to leave their current job. I hate to say it buy I would rather go after CTT before Nutt. At least CTT teams wins every year. Nutt's teams are mediocre at best. I just don't have a good feeling about Skip picking our next coach. If Emmeret was still here I would feel better but LSU has had a lot of turnover in the last year. LSU has lost Track Coach, Emmeret, and now Saban. If you think about this, this has all happened Louisiana voted Blanco into office. I know there probably isn't a connection but it sure does seem strange. LSUDAN
No, not really, if LSU was going cheap there would be talk about promoting someone who's an assistant currently on the staff like Jimbo.
Nutt makes $1.5 million per year at Arkansas. Petrino makes over $1 million per year at Louisville. We would probably have to offer them more money. I don't think that is going cheap. Who is it that you want to go after? Would they cost more?
I would like to see LSU go after Fran, Beamer, Iowa's coach, Shanahan, Del Rio, Richt, and even Spurrier. Who cares if they are long shots but I just don't want LSU to settle. I didn't realize Nutt was making 1.5 million. Man Arkansas fans need a refund. LSUDAN
Coaches Not trying to pick a fight here...but I think the only coach on that list you would have a shot at is Franchione. -Beamer is not going anywhere. He has way too much invested in Virginia Tech. I can't think of a college coach who has left a school coming off a major conference championship to take a job at another school. He would only go to the NFL (in a spurrier like situation). This would be like Spurrier going resigning from Florida just to take a job at another school. -Ferentz is a Big 10 guy. He has started a good thing at Iowa and he'll be contending for a Big 10 title next year. -Shanahan has turned down the Florida (his alma-mater!) twice. He is not going to leave for the Broncos for the LSU job, after turning down his alma-mater. Leaving an NFL head job for an NCAA head job (no matter which job) is not a step-up. -Spurrier probably would have given the LSU job some thought if this had happened earlier in the year. But no way he leaves before he ever coaches a game at USC. -Del Rio- once again very few guys leave NFL head coaching jobs for a college job. Very few schools have been able to do it, and most of the time the head coach was already getting kicked out of his NFL job. -Richt is impossible. Georgia is just as good of a job as LSU is, it would definately not be a step up for him. Even if you tried to up his money, Georgia would match it. I don't think it is in LSU's best interest to try to go after all of these guys because it will become public. Do you really want to become like Nebraska and Notre Dame where it is obvious the school had to settle for their 4th or 5th choice?
Well, Nick made about $1.6 per prior to last year, and his new/current/soon to be old deal paid an avg. of $2.75 per. A good benchmark is what other, high-profile, big money programs are paying their new hires (or reworking deals for current coaches). This includes Florida, Notre Dame, Texas and Auburn, to name four. Auburn, Florida and ND are paying $2 mil per. Mack Brown will get just over $2 mil per. I left Stoops off the list because his new raise was driven by the open Florida gig (he's now gonna make an insane $3.4 mil or so per year) and his salary has been noticeably higher than anyone else's for most of the past four years, anyway. I think it's safe to assume LSU will pay right around $2 mil amount as well. This is still a healthy, six-figure "savings" over what they were on the hook to pay Saban over the next 5 years or so.
