re: 247 reports “mutual interest” with Odom and Louisville (multiple schools interested)

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Because the BBall program saw a 70% growth in revenue. They sold $5.1 million in tickets. Projections justified his salary.

Do you think they are going to sell 70% more FB tickets next year?

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So we should just let Barry Odom go and then find a coach that may not be as good as Odom have done. You tel;ling me there is a coach that will come to Missouri for the same amount of money that Odom is getting right now!?

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Depends on what type of hire we made. We’d pay $3+M for a successful up and comer. A G5 coach moving up.

We’d pay a little more than that for a top OC or DC from a blue blood.

We’d pay $5M+ for a successful P5 coach.

If we hired a coordinator from a second tier school, we’d probably pay $2.5M.

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Give me some names that would come to Missouri that fit the list you are showing here.

Potato

I'm betting that Sterk is having conversations with BO about the future and has/will come up with a fair compensation package.

I doubt Sterk's "nervous" about the rumors of interested programs. It's just part of leveraging for more $$ and he's seen it before.

On the other hand, if he's a competent AD, he has a short list of possible candidates on hand for any coaching vacancies that he's "touched base with."

I can't imagine BO would go to Louisville.

Interesting read. Bo does deserve a raise, but still think the best way to significantly increase that is still through incentives. The 3.5 mill seems to some to be the magical mark, fine, give him a fair raise and incentives to reach that. I want Bo to stay, but, and I'm not saying he is, if he and his agent tries to use strong arm tactics and freaking Louisville is their bargaining chip....well bye.

With Strong there they reached 50k. ACC attendance is no where near SEC averages.

for fricks sakes, when I wrote Sterk must be nervous, I was being sarcastic ppl.

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for fricks sakes, when I wrote Sterk must be nervous, I was being sarcastic

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No you weren't. You were dead serious...and it took my breath away.

MZI !!!

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Overall Record

12-0 Bama
11-1 Georgia
9-3 Kentucky, LSU, Florida
8-4 Miss St, Mizzou, A&M

Tied for 4th

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Not how that works my friend. What you just typed shows us tied for 6th. There are 5 teams with a better record than us.

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I don't think I'm explaining it clearly. If the goal is hitting .260 with 15 home runs, then I'm not paying $20m/year for that when I can pay league minimum and get those results. If I'm paying you $20m/year, I expect .290 and 30 home runs. I have no problem with someone paying that kind of money if you're getting the results.

In other words, I have no problem if Sterk decided to pay BO $3.5m but if BO thought the fan base was rough on him before, he just upped the ante. He better be winning the east on occasion and competing for it most years. No more losing BS games like the SC and UK games this year.

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This is where the other disconnect comes in. Fans seem to conveniently ignore that every coach drops games they shouldn’t. Then we put every program that’s in our tier as a “should win”. Should we have won those games? Yes. Was that all on BO? Of course not. Do other coaches lose these games? Yes, every single one of them. aTm just paid Jimbo 70M guaranteed to go 8-4. We get hung up on this idea that there is a perfect coach who will always exceed expectations and never lose any game he should win. If we don’t get jibbed by the refs we are 10-2 and ranked in the top 10. Then what?

You’re also expecting top tier performance for below average money. That doesn’t make any sense. Expect it all you want, but giving the coach slightly below avg compensation just doesn’t seem like a real good reason.