re: We are Tigers, not lambs

I totally agree with everthing you have written.
It is absolutely insane for an employer to ever offer more money to keep a valued employee. Once the employee is in the house, so to speak, he/she is bound forever to that employer. He serves at the whim as well at the pay grade that such employer desires.
It is similarily foolish for an outside entity to ever believe that the employee of another entity would be value to him and offer him more money.
Also it is foolish to let university officials have the final say so in the hiring, paying and/orfiring of coaches. It is the fans that shuold make these decisions.