re: So if Haley is staying, our Payroll has gone up how much?

I think you have under-estimated the numbers

Steele Was making just shy 900k at Alabama as LBC

I think we need to assume we are paying him about 1 million

And Coach O, I would think is banking at least 800k or 900k

And I read somewhere Haley was making about 800k

Remember LSU was the highest paid staff prior to Chavis leaving.

So if I am guessing right,

Chavis was 1.33
Haley 800k...or roughly 2.1m

Now we have
Steele 1 million
Coach O at 800K
Haley at 800k

So that's about 2.6

Or about 500k more

We'll see when the numbers are made public