pittdan77
Athletic Director
Almost like it's really difficult to put everything together and stay at the top.
OT: Jimbo Fisher
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Why would I want to curtail your speech?
It's a shame Pitt doesn't have a bunch of donors with out of whack priorities so they could offer full scholarships to the 15k National Merit Scholars each year like A&M does. Wonder how they got their $18 billion endowment?
You think we'd be playing at a rented stadium? Our rich alumnus spend it on pro teams so they can make even more money.
Miss. State fired their coach. Classic SEC. Both schools fire their coach after the game they played against each other, lol
It's like A&M beat them to the punch and stole their thunder... They weren't quick enough!
Better to fire your coach during the season, then to wait until the end when other programs already have their search up and running. The best OCs will be taken by the time PN gets around to letting Cignetti go.
With that much cash rolling in why even coach again? Dude is almost 60, why deal with the hassles of butt kissing and ego stroking of high school kids and nutso donors.
I thought I saw somewhere that the $19 million comes from the donor pool but the rest comes from the university. That's still a pretty big hit for any athletic department to take, but I guess SEC money is pretty insane.
The best mercenary OCs (track record at a P5) are going to command $1.5 to $2 mil per year, and at least a 3 year contract. I don't see Pitt going that route.
When A&M hired Jackie away from Pitt, 1982, they gave him a base salary of $95,000. With bonuses and incentives it was about $280,000 per year.
At that point in time it was reported to be the most money ever paid out to anyone, at any university in America.
Insanity.
At that point in time it was reported to be the most money ever paid out to anyone, at any university in America.
Insanity.
You just answered it. If you have everything it takes to win but so does everyone else on your schedule, you go .500.
FWIW, the Athletic today had a chart of the ten highest buyouts in college football. Kirby Smart was number one at $92.6 million. Jimbo was second. James Franklin was 4th at $64.6.
I guess the good news is that Pat Narduzzi didn't make the top ten. Tenth on the list was Dan Lanning at $44.3 million.
I guess the good news is that Pat Narduzzi didn't make the top ten. Tenth on the list was Dan Lanning at $44.3 million.
The best DYNAMIC OCs will be gone for sure. The tired, much-failed conservative dinosaur hacks like Watson and Cignetti will be all that is left.
Which is precisely what Narduzzi wants.
So he knows just what he is (isn’t) doing.
It would seem such a great AD like Lyke would also know this pretty obvious tactic.
Yet she isn’t making him do anything.
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