re: Those of you who were around..

quote:

---

You literally said “it’s just a sport.”

---

Nah, I didn't.

quote:

---

I’ve made as little as $1.75 per hour

---

Took ya a while to afford that Maker's Mark, huh?

All jokes aside - you'd be shocked what coaches have 7 figure salaries.

$50,000 was a ton of money in 1978

quote:

---

So we should just hire a coach, pay him 15 mil a year and "expect" a championship.

---

We should expect excellence.

A championship requires some luck, but recruiting must improve.

Going for a fake punt with a TE run is low percentage coaching.
We are a mistake riddled team.

Auburn in 1981 under Dye was showing improvement.

Auburn under Harsin has not showed improvement.

It is a results driven world in college football.
We should expect better than we have gotten the last few years.

It is unrealistic to expect 15-0 every year, but we should at minimum be a competitive team. Currently, we are not competing on the field, we are not competing in recruiting, and we are not a highly disciplined team that does not make a lot of mistakes.

3-4 is not the main issue. The issue is we are not even close to competing with Ole Miss, Penn State, and Georgia. I don’t think it is asking to much for us to execute better, to look more prepared, and to not turn the ball over so much.

What are your expectations of Auburn’s football program?

Mine are to be competive in the SEC. We are not even close.

Lanier is right. The more we paid Gus the less he won.

quote:

---

Should people that pay me have expectations?

---

Sure but there is a cap to what you can do at any job. Circumstances, competition and abilities are going to adjust what is possible. With your job, mine or a football coach.

My point is, just because you pay more for something, that will not make it the best. It is just reality. Expectations with a football coach should not be measured by how much you pay them. It sounds like a cut and dry thing but unfortunately, it is not

Whether it should be or not is a different topic

quote:

---

My point is, just because you pay more for something, that will not make it the best

---

Agree.

The problem for me is I only get paid for results.

These coaches get buyouts.
I wish I had a golden parachute.

Before TV and really the whole championship craze teams played to just beat other schools and have bragging rights. That’s how the whole rivalry thing began. Beat Bama!, Wreck Tech!, Beat the Vols. Stomp the Gators!

We worried about beating the upcoming team on your schedule and weren’t worried about SEC championships and MNC. Hell you just wanted to go to a good bowl game.

You were lucky if you had one or two games a season on TV. As stated before coaches didn’t make millions and players didn’t practice or work out anywhere near what they do today. They were more student athletes rather than the semi pro players they are today.

Schools now want championships to gain more money and to entice more kids to enroll at their school. Easy access to Federal loans enables this and Universities offer more worthless degrees to get more money from students.

The Universities have turned in to businesses and diploma mills to keep the monster going to pay for their salaries. Athletics is just a part of it. There tax free status allows them to waste millions each year. And the false lore that a diploma is the golden ticket keeps easy federal loan money coming in.

You sound super low T

I’m glad you have changed from Oregon to tenn. I might do the same, the vols now hold a special place in my heart after gutting bama Saturday

Fans weren’t charged $100+ per ticket, $3000+ donations to TUF, high fees for RV lot permits, fees to tailgate within 2 miles of campus, and $8 a piece concessions… athletes were content with a scholarship and not demanding endorsement packages to sign LOI…. But war Eagle anyways right? We all know the overpaid Peeps in the AD failing in their positions want you to keep paying out the Yang for a Mazda at a Mercedes Benz price point to cover their salaries.