Coaching Candidates

[LumsdenJ]

Sorry if I missed it in this thread.

I'm told TJ Otzelberger is back in the mix and is interviewing Wednesday.

[TheDarkHawkReturns]

They better show up with a checkbook. Wright St. spent quite a bit on a coach...more than Jeter was making. If you want to be "top 3" you have to pay for it. Too bad our AD has alienated so many people who could help with this situation.

[BBF]

If we end up signing a coach at anything close to what Rob was paid this whole thing will be exposed as a pathetic fraud. Or maybe I should say, further exposed.

[TheDarkHawkReturns]

People seem to be under the impression that RJ was vastly overpaid...truth is, he really wasn't. The market price for a Head Coach in D1 is higher than many want to believe, and his salary was not out of line with many of his peers. Every time a major program like Auburn (a perennial cellar dweller in the SEC, and second fiddle to football) gives a coach who was still on an NCAA Show Cause a 6-year contract worth $2.2 million per year with a $100,000 annual escalator, it raises the prices for coaches at levels below that as well.

Mid majors like Milwaukee and Wright St. need to accept that the going rate for a Head Coach is no longer anywhere near the $200 k range we one thought was a lot. Wright St. reportedly dropping a cool half million a year for multiple years (probably with some escalators and performance bonuses) makes Jeter's contract not nearly that expensive. You can make the argument that Nagy is better than Jeter, and that is certainly a case to make, but Jeter was being paid less, so even still, that contract was not out of line.

I expect AB to try to go on the cheap...really cheap...mostly because now she has to since the well isn't just dry, it is also poisoned and boarded over.

Add the financial issues to the rest of this dumpster fire and you are left with a probably very unpleasant "coaching search" filled with a lot of "no thanks, I'll pass" responses.

[BBF]

Don't really disagree with you, hawk. I'm suggesting that if we end up paying that amount again, it underscores that what many of us were told this was about -- well, maybe not.

And yes, I am quite sure that there are candidates who are peeking under the covers and saying "pass."

[dylanrocks]

Because this hiring process was put on such a fast track, now I understand why the team was denied a chance at the postseason.

[TheDarkHawkReturns]

Because this hiring process was put on such a fast track, now I understand why the team was denied a chance at the postseason.

Yeah....that's it. That's the ticket. It's on the fast track. I heard it from my wife...Morgan Fairchild.



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[TheDarkHawkReturns]

How I imagine the phone calls from the Milwaukee AD Office to coaching candidates pretty much goes. (Slightly NSFW)

[Jimmy Lemke]

Word on the street is TJ has an interview tomorrow.

[Skrapheap]

Word on the street is TJ has an interview tomorrow.

That would fly well with some people, judging by reactions here and on the eunuch board, but it would also probably disappoint some very vocal people in the community.