Coaches Salaries

I know 4 or 5 high school coaches in a 100 mile radius of my house, that can out coach Miles. they will work work for less than 100,000 a year

We pay Chief $700K because we wanted to keep him from bolting to UGA who was offering him over $600K.

Lou Valdin at HHS

Great post. This makes the LSU administration look like idiots....

What a waste....

I'm pretty the market out there for assistant coaches are raising. I think other schools are raising the salaries but you don't hear it on the news.
ETA: 20 years ago...the highest paying HC doesnt even make more than 1M a year
and the raises has nothing to do with the ticket cost but big game like LSU vs Alabama will cost more, game against WVA will cost less etc. the $$$ will come from the Boosters

College coaches should be paid by the win. Lose and you don't get paid that week.

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College coaches should be paid by the win. Lose and you don't get paid that week.

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then about 70% of the college coaches would quit...

I still cannot believe some folks on here believe that the staff we have right now will turn things around. Crowton is too predictable on offense, Chavis loves soft zone defense playing 10 yards off the ball. A dominant defense from LSU is why we won 2 national championships. You will never see a dominant defense under Chavis. If Miles did not think that Crowton needed to go, that just tells you that Miles will not right the fricking ship.

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dreams come and go

Forget about competing for a championship in 2011 under Les Miles, because it won't happen. We get rid of Les Miles, we may be somewhere.

Without knowing what you do or what your performance evaluation was last year, is it possible that there is someone out there that thinks that they can do your job better for less. Go tell that to your boss.

Now.. let's debate the arguments

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We throwing $$ after $$ and that never works.

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This argument was constantly made about the Yankees. Never is way too long. Yankees have been proving it wrong on a regular basis (Boston too).

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UGA and LSU both have underachieving, overpaid, incompetent HCs.

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If you look at the body of work without prejudice, Miles record is good. 5 Years, 2 conf. championship appearances, 1 conf. championship, 2 BCS berths, 1 NC. Richt has a pretty gaudy record in the conference too. Last two years have a larger impact on your perception than their record/body of work.

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College coaches should be paid by the win. Lose and you don't get paid that week.

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What if fans were told that their ticket price is only a service charge only. They need to pay based on the entertainment value of the game.
- if you came to the game with your spouse or child and get a memory for a life time, you pay a recurring charge
- every time you talk about that UF upset or UGA losing on the TD, you pay LSU entertainment charge
- what if LSU police were not that lenient with 'fan culture' and charged them with every transgression

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Great post. This makes the LSU administration look like idiots....

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LSU administration got Miles quite cheap. Skip got raked over the coals for being cheap in his hire. Miles had incentives and he's made money based on those.
Saban got a huge hike in salary when he won the NC is 2003. Sure the pay raise was steep, but that was his contract. Win NC, be the highest paid coach in the nation. Should the administration have made it clear that LSU had to be voted no. 1 by AP too?

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I think LSU is throwing money after money in an attempt to overcome the deficiencies of the HC.

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An argument only rant can appreciate. What are the HC's deficiencies and how did the thrown money overcome that? Bo Pellini's defense was considered suspect. It was blamed for the loss against Tenn, it was also considered the reason for 2007 loses. Now Bo is considered a great coach for turning around Cornhusker fortunes. Or is it Suh?

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We hired Billy G (Miles' mentor) to teach Miles and Crowton how to run a few spread formations and utilize WRs that can run fast.

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My sarcasm deficiency this morning is forcing me to address this. Meyer did not promote Gonzalez as OC despite working loyally through 3 colleges. Did LSU get a clunker or is Miles so savvy that he invested in BG should Crowton leave or be jettisoned.

It's hard to understand economies of pay scale, especially if you are not in that range. Every time you hear about wall street excesses you wonder why you couldn't have made money for such incompetence. A while ago corporate execs made much less and the books were closed. It was deemed that if books were opened and competition encouraged, exec salaries would plateau. Instead, companies trying to outbid for services sent the salaries through the stratosphere. (Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely)