It's more about how chancellors make decisions about the academics, and ADs make decisions about athletics. We're either going to keep up with the Jones' on paying ridiculous coaching salaries, or we don't. It's almost a Cold War-era spending spree. Perhaps the larger universities are attempting to bankrupt the smaller universities who have become increasingly competitive in the past few decades.
It's more about how chancellors make decisions about the academics, and ADs make decisions about athletics. We're either going to keep up with the Jones' on paying ridiculous coaching salaries, or we don't. It's almost a Cold War-era spending spree. Perhaps the larger universities are attempting to bankrupt the smaller universities who have become increasingly competitive in the past few decades.
One thing they fail to acknowledge is that universities tend to do better financially when the football or basketball teams are doing well - if only from a sheer enrollment basis. A while back, I think someone even posted a study or two here, which laid all of that out.
So, I would say the two are "congruent" in that regard. Nebraska will never be a Northwestern in the B1G, academically speaking. But at least Northwestern was one of the few teams we beat in football this year. Same goes for Fordham. Bunch of nerds.
A lot depends on how and where you get a coach. Poaching a coach from a top team before the end of a season cost much more than after a season and going about it in a more normal manner. IMO.It's more about how chancellors make decisions about the academics, and ADs make decisions about athletics. We're either going to keep up with the Jones' on paying ridiculous coaching salaries, or we don't. It's almost a Cold War-era spending spree. Perhaps the larger universities are attempting to bankrupt the smaller universities who have become increasingly competitive in the past few decades.
One thing they fail to acknowledge is that universities tend to do better financially when the football or basketball teams are doing well - if only from a sheer enrollment basis. A while back, I think someone even posted a study or two here, which laid all of that out.
So, I would say the two are "congruent" in that regard. Nebraska will never be a Northwestern in the B1G, academically speaking. But at least Northwestern was one of the few teams we beat in football this year. Same goes for Fordham. Bunch of nerds.
how bad did 2020 covid season impact this?
I'm not sure where Trev personally stands. Maybe he does want to spend silly money. maybe he doesn't.
I'd be fine with this direction if we fully committed to the triple option like the service academies. If you're gonna be second tier, might as well be a nightmare to prepare for and play and potentially win more than we should...
He was and I have no doubt that if he was still in Lincoln his answer to that question would have been completely different. I'm pretty sure he would say that we are about winning first and not money.
If the administration and donors are considering giving up top tier football because of expense of it in the coming years .... He has cut the **** you just don't like the insight.
I would be happy to be a coach for the low cost of 1 million per year. If I do a crappy job, my buyout will be low but if I am successful, my pay will go up in the future.
To be clear I don't believe anyone in the uni wants NU to be an eternal 3 win team. To suit jteten verbiage consistently winning is something like we had with Pelini, a decent bowl and a good win pct.
People have said we should go to incentive laden contract. Why would a coach accept one of these when even marginally decent coaches are getting great guaranteed money. Money that is constantly going up now in bunches.
You can, but I donāt believe that for a second. An extra mil or even 5 mil paid to the coaching staff is chump change compared to the lost revenue of not having butts in the seats, buying merch, ppv across the nation, etcā¦. Just look at the Covid losses from no attendance across all sports and tell me coaching salary is a loss leader. Hype and expectation is as big a draw as winning in many cases. Even if true, his quote was bad PR and didnāt even need to be said. If Nebraska football was publicly traded today, it would be down 5% on that quote alone. Bad business.
Agreed. And with how much we seem to focus on things like character and whatnot these days, doing things "right" etc. it seems like we might as well commit to that brand of football. Saves money, stays out of negative headlines and allows good team culture, and wins more games than it should (but obviously not year in, year out contender for cfp let alone upper tier bowl games).
The other option to paying out millions for a new HEAD coach is the one Trev took. You take your native son head coach who will work for less and stay there forever and let him make changes to his staff to try to turn around the results. There is no doubt that Frost was pretty green as a head coach when he took this job. I have some hope that he can grow in to the job. That said, he better do it fast with these staff changes. One coordinator can make a world of difference. Hell one GOOD O LINE coach could make a world of difference.
He didn't pay out 10 million per year to get Leach. That was an entirely different scenario. Leach was a bargain because of some of the legal problems he had at TTU.
Trev priority #1 is to figure out how to get NIL$ to Nebraska players. One way or the other. Priority #2 is getting ready to hire a new coach next year.
NU is terrible and we still have butts in seats. Whatever tier we end up wanting to finance I believe the steady state to be closer to nine win kind of money than 3 win kind of money. The Pelini era with the occasional playoff run and conference title would sustain Nebraska football and Lincoln for a generation
There is only so much an AD or coach can do to "get NIL$" to players. There are laws dealing with that.
Because of this move I could see Bama bumping Saban up to 20mil heeping him the highest paid,.
Instead of paying huge coaches' salaries - let's give it to the 4 & 5 star players. Maybe not under the table, but through NIL somehow. Doubt the NCAA will look into very much of that!
I think there a substantial possibility we are keeping Frost two years and they just aren't quite saying it yet. Certainly Frost will have to do minimally well to make it go.
You may not be wrong, but boosters are paying at least some of his salary (I suspect a big portion, but can't find any exact numbers). I somehow doubt we have boosters with as deep of pockets as many other schools.
