re: Harsin contract: 6 years, 31.5m (+ Assistants)

Interesting tidbit on what Auburn is paying coaches...

...think I read that Auburn will have paid out over 60 million over a 5-6 year period when you add in the past coaches let go and the current football staff..

That's a lot of moolah !!

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That’s not how you attract coaches

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Thats not how it works here baw. You just offer guys 1/2 of what the job pays and expect them to come cause Auburn is so awesome.

If he got banned, how many times would that make?

They should have a Wall of Shame link for top 20 banned posters.

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Do you know what Barfield made? About $40k. After they fired him, an AU newspaper ran a story about it and said Bobby Bowden had a $200k buyout that would probably be far too high for AU to afford.

How times have changed.

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And his tv contract was for $14,000.
The football budget was 2.2m in 1976.

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I got a raise to $3.50 per hour

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Equal to about $10 accounting for inflation.


First job I had was at the University just out of High School. I was making federal minimum wage, which was $5.15. Came back the next summer and they gave me a pay bump to $6.25. Then the new federal minimum got voted on to progress up to the current rate of $7.25, and like a week after I re-started the minimum got bumped up to $6.15 or something like that.


But man, for those 7 days I was making $1 more than minimum wage I felt like a fricking king.

Those were the days... (back in the olden times)

... had this job my Dad finagled for me. Doing grunt work on a construction crew. Summer work. Was a shovel operator. The kind with a long handle and down in a ditch spreading out gravel with three others, when the backhoe guy blew a tire from not putting out a stay. Happened just as the company owner was driving by. Fired him on the spot, looked at older two and said can one of you drive this, and no one said anything. He then for some reason asked me and I fessed up to being able to drive a tractor. Your hired, 25cent raise, wasn't even old enough to have a drivers license. First month and a raise. Two weeks later he's hired a new operator and he asked if wanted any part of a soon to be two person dynamite crew. Another 25cent raise and a week or two later turned sixteen. They'd put us all in jail for such today.

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Doing grunt work on a construction crew. Summer work. Was a shovel operator. The kind with a long handle and down in a ditch spreading out gravel with three others,

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Sounds like my sons job right now. He is 24 and working with a clearing company. For the last two years he has been working a shovel and probably holding one of those signs directing traffic.

Late last year they let him drive the water truck around keeping the dust down. In January, they started teaching him to drive the bobcat. He has sent me some short videos of him out there moving things around.

I have to admit, it is not the life I envisioned for him all these years but Im proud he is working and learning a trade of some kind.

Its amazing how important those .25 cents per hour or even .15 cents per hour was to us back then. I honestly dont think things that kids buy are that much more expensive now. I needed gas for my car, fast food and some money for movies or maybe some weed. Those things just are not that much more expensive now

I have been trying for 4 weeks now to hire someone to work about 3-4 weeks sorting out some bad product, packing a few things and just basic help around the shop. Im offering $15/hour, CASH!!! Cant get anyone.

My wife and I are working at night now, 3 hours per night after dinner sorting bad product, watching TV on the computer and listening to music to get it done before the spring is over.

Insanity.

I had a '79 XR 80 from 9 years old to 15. I'm still mad at my Dad for selling it.

Had 3.5 summer jobs at $3.35 hr, Bagboy, Beach trash crew, go cart track attendant, then another track hired me as an attendant, but worked into the mechanic gig for more $.

Had a construction job in college making big dough at the time. We were working 6 12's so you got a boat load of time and a half. I was clearing $500-600 a week and I was too tired to spend anything! Showed back up to Auburn as a baller.

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...His salary was now $10,000 a year. 5 figured salary was a big deal back in the 70's.

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Equivalent of 50k in today money.



Further proof of multiple things, but mostly that the NCAA is a fricking joke for going after schools for giving kids money.