re: Rant's help needed Re: Austin Thomas

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Must be nice to be Austin. No one knows how much he makes but everyone thinks he should be making more

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His current salary was published as 125K when the new assistant contracts were announced.

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He recieved a 25K raise from USC, and was given active recruiting duties. Moffit makes 400K for reference. Thomas should absolutely be making as much as Dennis Johnson, at 180K, IMO.

Here's a breakdown of what Bama and Clemson paid their support staff.

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Keep in mind none of these guys actively recruit, and Austin Thomas under his current title fills several of the roles played by a couple different positions on these lists. Bama's paying over 180K for a guy with a lower title than Austin and Clemson has 3 guys over 200K. LSU should absolutely be doing more to keep a guy who not only hand delivered two 5 star players last year, but is on track to land a 5 star left tackle this year, as well as coordinating ALL the logistics of recruiting visits and camps. If LSU wants to keep up with top programs in CFB we have to pay good people what they're worth. We're not competing against the NFL for him right now, we're practically forcing him to court offers from other CFB programs.