re: The Official Coaching Search Thread- updates in OP

Here is some great information about our financial capabilities and responsibilities for the football coaching staff.

HC - Spurrier $4M

(All these guys below have contract that expire in January 2016)
DL - Deke Adams: $320,000
LB - Kirk Botkin: $320,000
QC but paid like DB- Grady Brown: $270,000
OL Interim HC- Shawn Elliott: $450,000
QB - G.A. Mangus: $320,000
Spec Team - Joe Robinson: $375,000
RB - Everette Sands: $270,000
WR/Rec Coordinator (in name only)- Steve Spurrier Jr.: $400,000
=$2.725M (this money frees up this January.)

(These 2 guys have contracts that expire in January 2017.)
DC - John Hoke - $750K
DC-ish - Whammy Ward - $750K
= $1.5M in 2016 salary
They are due this money unless they are fired with cause, but I think that having a shite defense is cause enough to fire them, I hope their contract has a performance based evaluation clause.

That means this year we were on the hook for $8.225M total with HC, Asst Coaches and Grady Brown.)

We didn't actualize $2M in (lost) revenue from the LSU game.
We are saving about $2M from Spurrier resigning, so that's about a wash.
We are going to make more money from the SECN deal this year than projected, but we won't know how much until next quarter.

However, just going off of last year's numbers, and assuming that we can fire Whammy and Hoke with cause. We'll have about $8.225M for the new staff and at worst $6.725M (if we are held to the DC's contracts and just gong off of what we budgeted last year.) Although, Ray could say 'frick it, I'm the boss, I'll spend whatever it takes,' at any moment,' and we could end up spending even more than what we spent this year.

The point of all this is, we should have a lot of money to spend on a great HC and Top Tier Asst Coaching staff next season (especially if we can fire the DC's WITH CAUSE.)