Re: Jeff Reinebold Ripping Chad Morris
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:43 pm
Stallion wrote:Some of you all don't get it-SMU isn't trying to get to the P5 any more. Read between the lines of the Head Coaches salary over the last decade. When June Jones came to SMU he was paid about a Top 15-Top 18 salary (which was probably in the Top 12% or so in FBS) in the Country.
We' are paying the same salary a decade later and probably will pay the next guy substantially less because we are setting our self up for hiring a position coach 3 years out of high school. Its quite likely SMU will be paying about 50% less than they did a decade ago which would put SMU in the Bottom 40% of the FBS. That's not even the type of hire you'd expect from an AAC level program much less P5. The National experts rated the hiring of Chad Morris as an A. This hire is looking like a C or C- hire.
And yes Memphis, UCF, USF and UH all tendered high P5 level contracts to their Head Coaches who are being courted by P5 teams. SMU didn't bother trying to keep Chad Morris and merely extended Morris
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I happen to agree with this statement. So I ask you this question.
You are the President of an academic, not athletic institution. Given the above, as President, would you marshall the resources, including prime real estate, to build an IPF.
I do not believe for one moment it is the panacea some are making it out to be.