re: Pittman just fired the DL coach.

Wonder if maybe this is an Odem hire? Pittman seems to largely let his Coordinator run their respective sides of the ball, and this could be a simple as letting Odem make his own bed so to speak. For that matter, could be something to do with the dynamic with Odem after Pittman got ride of someone Odem liked.

The optimist in me is hoping Pittman mainly hired Adams to help with recruiting and Pittman himself will have more input in the actual development of our D line.

If there's anybody who can get a D-line coach steered in the right direction, it's Pittman. He knows a lot about both sides of the trenches seeing as he played D-line and coached O-line.

I'd rather us not have to teach an old dog new tricks but maybe that's what it takes to get better recruiting for the time being.

Yeah, this hire makes no sense to me.

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Or I'd agree to $7million but he pays back $1million for each loss

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So he was the primary recruiter on 3 JUCOs including Lamin who Bielema had some interest in while here.

He was secondary recruiter for players in NJ (twice), SC (twice) and GA once.

JUCO recruiting is now nonexistent as Pittman has said with the transfer portal.

Clowney was the #1 overall pick in HS.

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Fatboss went from "I don't need the money cause I'm old and have not kids", "I just thankful for the opportunity and money is not a factor" etc. to I have Jimmy Sexton and I want $7million dollars for a decent season against the shittiest SEC in a while. Hope that's wrong. He deserves a raise but not $7million. Or I'd agree to $7million but he pays back $1million for each loss. Bonuses for winning west, SEC, NC. shite's getting ridiculous.

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SEC Head coaches pay this past season:

Nick Saban, Alabama: $9,753,221 — No. 1 — $38,400,000 buyout
Ed Orgeron, LSU: $9,012,917 — No. 2 — $17,150,000 buyout
Dan Mullen, Florida: $7,570,000 — No. 6 — $12,000,000 buyout
Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M: $7,500,000 — No. 7 — $95,575,000 buyout
Kirby Smart, Georgia: $7,133,600 — No. 8 — $14,614,167 buyout
Mark Stoops, Kentucky: $5,263,600 — No. 15 — $19,921,875 buyout
Bryan Harsin, Auburn: $5,000,000 — No. 19 — $17,791,667 buyout
Mike Leach, Mississippi State: $5,000,000 — No. 20 — unknown buyout
Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss: $4,841,937 — No. 21 — unknown buyout
Josh Heupel, Tennessee: $4,000,000 — No. 35 — $20,666,667 buyout
Eli Drinkwitz, Missouri: $4,000,000 — No. 36 — $11,550,000 buyout
Sam Pittman, Arkansas: $2,925,000 — No. 54 — unknown buyout
Shane Beamer, South Carolina: $2,750,000 — No. 58 — $7,298,958 buyout
Clark Lea, Vanderbilt: n/a (salary not obtained by USA Today) — unknown buyout


Hired
Brian Kelly, LSU: Anywhere from 10 years/$95 million to $15 mil a season.
Billy Napier, Florida: 7 years/$51.8 million — $7.1 million in 2022

Extended
Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss: $7.25 million and increase $100K each year through 2025.
Mark Stoops, Kentucky: $6.35 million and increase to $7.60 million in 2028.

From Sam's perspective new hires to the SEC this year making more that him and everyone who was hired made more than him after a 9 win year 2 with where our program was.

If we paid $7 million we would be middle of the pack.

He's coached some really good D lines in the SEC, I don't think he'll be here long enough for the rest. He's a 1 year guy at a lot of places.

And why do we care so much about this fact all of a sudden? Jermial Ashley has never recruited a 4 star.

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4 and 5 star DL are a very limited commodity,

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We've signed a few 4 star lineman over the years out of Arkansas and Louisiana. Not getting them to campus even I'd s Chad Morris level ineptitude