That’s cheap if you win a title. Plus I think Saban has a clause in his contract that requires him to be highest paid in CFB so we could drain Alabama’s wallet at the same time.
Where did 11.4 to 12 come from? That number is out of line when you look at the excerpt below from a 10/14 USA today article. If he is receptive to coming to LSU I think a 25% (9.6MM) or at the most a 33% (10.2MM) is realistic. Add performance incentives - win the SEC west bonus 250K; win SEC title up the bonus to 500K; win it all and the bonus ups to 1MM. More than that and I would be worried his is chasing $$ instead of opportunity for success and I would move on. FROM USA TODAY . . Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley’s annual salary of $7.672 million ranks fifth nationally, according to data published Thursday by USA Today. The newspaper annually lists college football coaches’ salaries, and this year Riley comes up behind Alabama’s Nick Saban ($9.753 milion), LSU’s Ed Oregon ($9.013 million), Stanford’s David Shaw ($8.925 million) and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney ($8.371 million). Riley ranks just ahead of Florida’s Dan Mullen ($7.570 million), Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher ($7.5 million), Georgia’s Kirby Smart ($7.134 million), Ohio State’s Ryan Day ($6.615 million) and TCU’s Gary Patterson ($6.013 million).
I agree. It's just a rumor going around for a few days. Word is Woodward wants to make LSU's new coach very, very rich. There is one oddity, you look at his Wikipedia page, about 5 lines down his annual salary is listed at $11M. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Riley
You are correct, Sir! That is interesting. AND Its footnoted. The footnote says he got a 5 year 32.5MM deal in 2019 which is like 6.5MM a year. So is is 6.5; 7.67; or 11? Usually its not hard to nail down with public universities. Again, interesting.
The thing with Kiffin, you would have to have an almost completely autonomous DC, like Sean Payton and the Saints. Only way it could really work to a championship level. As for Dabo, I’d love to have him, but when C’estbon retires at BAMA, that’s where Dabo will end up. So we would have that scenario likely on our hands. As for a bigger college program that Kiffin jump to, where would that be? He is not going back to USC and LSU is not UT, so can’t compare that situation. Is Kiffin going tOSU? Not much bigger program he could jump to. Personally, I don’t think Napier would be the kind of candidate Woodward would be going for. So I just don’t expect it, which means it totally might happen. Lol
I've heard this said before and I completely disagree. He has a gravy train ride right now (even though its a down year) that conference is cake and once his young team matures a little he will be right back to waltzing into the playoffs every year. I don't think it is a lock that he leaves for bama. He might, I think it would be a bad move if he does, same for taking the LSU job. Sure its a great gig but not as good as he has it now in terms of what equals success.
This is the same thing I’ve been telling people when they mention Dabo. He has the easiest path to the playoffs every year. Why leave that? This year is a down year but he’ll be back. Also he’s made the Clemson culture very attractive to recruits and his assistants like being there. Would you leave a cake walk to come battle in the SEC every weekend?
Agreed. Any power conference head coach not named Kiffin, Jimbo, or future member Riley is walking into a much harder path to the playoffs than where they are. Because the SEC west is not for sissies; it doesn't get tougher than the SEC west.
