From what I understand that was part of the conversation. Long term commitment. Buy a house, settle in. May be a multiyear (3) contract but I'll be shocked if we bit on that with an OLine coach. I know he got less than the $600k he was asking for but still, if he is committed and willing to assimilate and willing to adapt to the South this time around ... he can coach OLinemen and he can recruit. Eric has a very distinguished way about him. I think I mentioned it earlier but Eric always reminded me of Rick Minter.

Edited: "Let me" term to "Long" term ... and I hate autocorrect.

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Posted by ConwayGamecock

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Posted on 1/9/17 at 2:15 am to scrooster

They could give him a title such as Run Game Coordinator like Elliott had, which would then allow for a multi-year contract (I think position coaches only get one-year contracts, while coordinators can get more than one) with a salary from $500K to $750K. The position coaches this past season already were earning $200K to upwards of $500K.

Elliott earned a salary of $500K this past season, while Lance Thompson like Elliott earned $500K last season and is under contract through the 2017 season. Thompson has the dual title of DL coach and Associate Head Coach for Defense - a move similar to how Spurrier had Ward as his DC and Ellis Johnson his Assoc. HC in chrg. of Defense in order to give both Johnson and Ward multi-year contracts (it was how we got Ward away from Arkansas).

Wolford reportedly earned around $200K as the HC at Youngstown St., so it shouldn't be much trouble to give him a better salary to be USC's OL coach....

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