re: Schloss reported to be getting $3m+ per at Texas. JJ at $1.65m. This will re set market

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- He won't make more than $2.2M, if that.

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He had numerous reasons to leave without being overpaid. It wasn't all money.

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While I agree--I've been to College Station and lived in Austin for several years and there's no comparison. And I think the AD thing is real. He probably would have gone for $2.2. But I think giving him closer to $3 does a few things:

1) It helps his reputation with recruiting--getting a huge raise is an easier sell to future recruits as to why he left rather than the other, more nuanced reasons that teenagers who want to trust he's not gonna leave again might not understand. And with the way he handled that presser and UT trying to sabotage A&M's attempt at a championship by waiting until the final game to announce the firing and stirring up rumors all day that overshadowed the players and the actual game, his reputation desperately needs helping in the short-term. Especially if it comes out that he and the staff were recruiting for UT the whole time. He went from a name only college baseball fans knew to a national villain. He'll get past it eventually, but it's gonna be used to negatively recruit against him. Hard. And I think it will probably set his rebuild back a bit. They'd have been much better off if A&M has lost in the regional or super than making it to the championship series. But I think his "story" is easier to sell if he got a massive raise.

2) It's an announcement to UT's boosters, their regular fans, future recruits, and the rest of the SEC as they enter their 1st year, that they are serious about competing in baseball again and ready to get back to winning NCs. And not just in baseball, but all sports. They haven't won anything significant in a while, and joining the best conference in college sports with the likes of Bama, Georgia, and LSU in football, Tennessee, LSU, Arkansas, Florida, Vandy, etc...in baseball, Kentucky, Arkansas, Auburn, Bama, Tennessee, etc..in basketball--it's a signal of their commitment to compete for championships in all sport and an attempt to galvanize their fanbase as they enter this new era of Texas sports.

3) It absolutely will re-set the market, though it may take a few years to really see it. But 5 years from now, there will be multiple SEC baseball coaches making over $3 million per. Which helps Texas because they have more money, and if other schools are using a bigger percentage of their resources on baseball coaches' salaries, that can only help UT and the few other schools that have the resources--and the will--to spend that much on the baseball program, while hurting the others.

frick UT. I hate them more than Aggie, and I hope this doesn't work. But I get what they're doing.

I don’t know if Schlossnagle is making $3m per year or not. But I do know there are enough Texas alumni with deep enough pockets who would handle that just for the kicks and giggles of taking A&Ms CWS coach from them. And it wouldn’t affect the university’s bottom line when it came to baseball’s profit or loss.
Unlike girls sports where the university takes the hit to avoid a Title 9 lawsuit, you have interested parties willing to foot the bill for football, basketball and increasingly in the SEC, baseball.

Because Texas is going to hire Jay for $3m if not?

They should raise his salary to this just to take care of JJ. 3 million for a coach who hasn't won anything compared to a guy who has already won one? Yes, he deserves 3 million if not 3 million+$1 to make him the highest paid.

No they are not. Do some research