Remaining Staff additions

At this point, I'm just going to let Rhule do his thing. We've tried the hand-picked successor in Frank Solich - didn't work out. We tried the NFL guy in Bill Callahan - didn't work out. We tried the hot shot coordinator in Pelini - worked OK for a while. We tried the old .500 coach in Mike Riley - didn't work out. We tried the Prodigal Son in Scott Frost - didn't work out. 


That's why I was saying I'm kinda over the idea of dream hires at this point. Like you look at Texas A&M. They hired away a head coach who had won a national championship at his then-current school, brought in the highest-rated recruiting class ever, and yet they completely s#!t the bed last season. You can do everything right on paper and still end up losing.

Remember we had that DB coach a few years back that did not let his DB's turn their head back to the ball? 


*football hits in the back of the head*

 
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Wilhite was largely in charge of in-state recruiting and HS coach relations. We've been rather iffy there in recent years, so...

 
I will say this..."Experience" is sometimes over-rated. 


College position coaches are mainly asked to communicate what the OC wants to do on offense to each of the position groups. That’s their main job, and it most of their job. Yes, there are position drills, but those don’t vary a lot from team to team. 


Sooo…..we have gone from “we drastically need great assistants here because we haven’t developed talent like we should…..to…..”well, anyone can coach any position as long as they can communicate the play”


I know jack $h!t about coaching football, and I'll go ahead and trust Rhule's process until it works or it fails, but if the posts quoted above is our current mindset, and if it is not such a problem to hire inexperienced 20-year olds to coach a position they have never played or coached before, why was it so important to have such a large salary pool for the assistants?

 
I know jack $h!t about coaching football, and I'll go ahead and trust Rhule's process until it works or it fails, but if the posts quoted above is our current mindset, and if it is not such a problem to hire inexperienced 20-year olds to coach a position they have never played or coached before, why was it so important to have such a large salary pool for the assistants?
That's a fair point.  We don't know how much of the original $7M salary pool is being used, as salaries haven't been released.

I assume that a large chunk of that was going to be allocated to Mickey Joseph, who probably would have cost $1.5M (his original ask was $2M).  So, Rhule is probably saving at least $1M on his WR coach.  I assume the OC and DC will be north of $1M, and the STC will be just below $1M.  That would leave $3-4M to be used across the remaining full-time assistants.  If Rhule isn't fully using his original $7M salary pool, that will leave funds for additional support staff or enable Rhule to give raises to coaches that he thinks are performing well.

 
Rumor is that Rutgers poached Minnesota's OC for $1.5M, so Satterfield might be in that ballpark.
I think White will be paid more than Satterfield, as White has more experience as a coordinator, and it might have taken a larger salary to poach him away from Syracuse.  I know Satterfield was South Carolina's OC, but he was so quick to join Rhule's staff, I think he may not demand an astronomical salary.  But, your $1.5M starting point for each coordinator is probably close.

 
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I wonder if Adidas will actually come out with a 'smock' like that, or if we'll just keep Photoshopping their logo onto them...

 
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I think McGuire barely qualified voting rights age  ;)

 
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