What leverage does Coach O have?

I keep seeing 2.75-3.75milliom thrown around and then the term bargain thrown in with it.

Since when is a 200+ percentage raise in salary a bargain?

What other schools are beating down our door to steal Ed fricking Oregeron from us? So we are going to give him an SEC HC salary just because it's expected ?

How is this considered a good deal? If we pay him 3.75 that's just a little bit south of what we paid our winningest coach ever.

You can't throw our we pay what market bears when your candidate is unproven, not wanted by anyone else and supposedly has his dream job all the while currently making 600k.

Why wouldn't LSU have leverage to offer to double his salary until he proves worthy of an top 25 coach salary? Why would Oregeron turn that down.

Take the money you save and make parking free again because fans will need some fricking incentive to show up.