Coach compensation

[Dogariffic]

A few thoughts.
Mullin should go to 4.5 but staff needs to increase as well. Last year staff was 2.6 total. About .6 to .7 below competitive levels of 3.3 or so. Would like to pay assistants more to get and retain better but 5 plus for assistants like lsu and bama is out of line for us.
Since Mullen arrived season ticket sales up. Food and beverage sales up. Game attendance up. Bowl revenue up. Heck school donations up and we just won 10 games.
Pay Mullen 4.5 but pay staff another .7 or .8 to be competitive there. They deserve it based on our ROI.

 

[civildawg88]

I would rather see an incentive based contract with a base of 4 million

 

[121Josey]

Thanks for the new thread. I hadn't heard about the food and beverage increase so that was helpful.

 

[RocketDawg]

2.6 is only 22% less than 3.3 .... It's already 70-80% (roughly 78%) of the competitive levels, if your numbers are correct. But I get your point ... the assistants need more money. And, with Chavers going to A&M for a big raise, and others (presumably including Collins) getting raises, the disparity will only increase if we keep ours the same.

But you're right ... Mullen has basically brought in more money to the MSU athletic department than they pay him. I think one reason donations are up is because of the reseating (a big influx by people trying to get better seats), and some of those who got poorer seats may drop out ... so donations may go down in the long run.