If Kirk didn't have this ridiculous contract, Davis would not be coming Back

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WindyCityHawkI

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After the last 3 years and the terrible offensive coordinator hire that HE made, most coaches would be concerned about their own job and would have to hire a new coordinator to try to win now. Kirk can afford another awful year on offense and the team, so he isn't concerned about finding someone new. No one in their right mind would keep Greg Davis. We played an awful schedule with awful defenses and did nothing.
 
Amen. In addition, I think Kurt's contract shifts money away from assistants because our coordinators are making peanuts compared to the good programs in the conference. You get what you pay for ('cept for when you pay almost $4 million to the head man, that is).
 
okeefe4prez said:
Amen. In addition, I think Kurt's contract shifts money away from assistants because our coordinators are making peanuts compared to the good programs in the conference. You get what you pay for ('cept for when you pay almost $4 million to the head man, that is).
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Agreed. Luke Fickell at OSU and Greg Mattison of Michigan are getting $750K a year. Meanwhile, I think Davis and Parker are getting around $300K each. While Iowa's overall pay for assistants is 5th in the Big Ten (not horrible), when Ferentz's salary is added, Iowa's pay to all coaches jumps to 2nd. What are the chances he coughs up some salary to enhance the coordinators' salaries?
 
homes said:
Agreed. Luke Fickell at OSU and Greg Mattison of Michigan are getting $750K a year. Meanwhile, I think Davis and Parker are getting around $300K each. While Iowa's overall pay for assistants is 5th in the Big Ten (not horrible), when Ferentz's salary is added, Iowa's pay to all coaches jumps to 2nd. What are the chances he coughs up some salary to enhance the coordinators' salaries?
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It is the trickle down effect. Kf gets 4 mill and for bdays and christmas he buys the other coaches a nice shirt. Oh and dont forget he gives them a ham on easter. It will work, you'll see. Stop being anti american, you hater.
 
olddude said:
It is the trickle down effect. Kf gets 4 mill and for bdays and christmas he buys the other coaches a nice shirt. Oh and dont forget he gives them a ham on easter. It will work, you'll see. Stop being anti american, you hater.
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Of course, who wouldn't hang around for a free ham.
 
olddude said:
It is the trickle down effect. Kf gets 4 mill and for bdays and christmas he buys the other coaches a nice shirt. Oh and dont forget he gives them a ham on easter. It will work, you'll see. Stop being anti american, you hater.
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"Oh and dont forget he gives them a ham on easter."

LOL...........that's the least a fat cat can do.

FreedComanche
 
this article in USA Today on coaches salaries highlights how Clemson coach Swinney makes his assistants the highest pd in NCAA by shifting his salary to them.


"Coach Saban alone makes more than my entire staff," Swinney says. "It's all relative. It's just the market. If you're a surgeon, and you have this expertise and talent, there's a market for what you get paid. The market is not set by coaches. It's set by what someone is willing to pay, I guess."
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Six years ago, 42 major college football coaches made at least $1 million. Today, 42 make at least $2 million. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is one of them, though he could be making more — a lot more.
Swinney, who makes a shade more than $2 million, has transferred raises triggered by clauses in his contract to his assistants, adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to another growing class in college football — highly paid assistant coaches.
"Part of my philosophy was, I've got this money that was due me, and I don't need it," Swinney says. "I make plenty of money. Why can't I choose to invest some of that money in what we're trying to do as a program?"
The result: Swinney is the nation's 39th most highly paid head coach, and his assistants, who carry a cumulative price tag of $4.2 million, appear to be the nation's most highly paid.

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Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris is the nation's most highly paid assistant at a public school. Morris makes $1.3 million, more than 10 times what he was getting three years ago as a high school coach in Austin.
"I'm not complaining, not hurting at all," Morris says.
Brent Venables, Clemson's defensive coordinator, makes $800,000, almost double what he was making a year ago as Oklahoma's defensive coordinator.
"It's embarrassing to a certain degree," Venables says
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Swinney has shifted $844,000 over three years from his contracts to the compensation pool for his assistants by taking less in contractually triggered bonuses — for playing in the ACC title game in 2009 and winning it last year — and by trimming back a longevity bonus he gets a year from now. (Some of that is offset by a new clause that pays Swinney $75,000 in expenses to run his summer camp.)
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pretty cool story on Swinney:
NCAA football coaches' average salary at $1.64 million




 
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FreedComanche said:
"Oh and dont forget he gives them a ham on easter."

LOL...........that's the least a fat cat can do.

FreedComanche
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I heard thru a big booster friend of mine (so do not repeat, nobody else can know) that if the coaches get the team to a bowl next year, they get a $20 card to Bass Pro Shops.
 
FalseMirage said:
Too bad Barta doesn't have the balls too tell KF to fire Davis.
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Wouldn't matter if he did have a pair and tells him to. If ferentz stood at the gates of Hell and was told to do something that he didn't want to or he'd get pushed into Hell, he'd take the push.

FreedComanche
 
Really, one year and you're ready to push the guy out??
Are you daft?

If some major players on Hawkeyenation didn't love Norm Parker, there would be threads on Hawkeyenation asking for Jeff Parker's resignation...

EDIT: Jeff isn't a first year guy because, for one thing, he's brought along all of Norm's ancient schemes.

2nd EDIT: my apologies to Jeff. It's Phil Parker I'm trying to call out.
 
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WindyCityHawkI said:
After the last 3 years and the terrible offensive coordinator hire that HE made, most coaches would be concerned about their own job and would have to hire a new coordinator to try to win now. Kirk can afford another awful year on offense and the team, so he isn't concerned about finding someone new. No one in their right mind would keep Greg Davis. We played an awful schedule with awful defenses and did nothing.
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+10000000000
 
olddude said:
I heard thru a big booster friend of mine (so do not repeat, nobody else can know) that if the coaches get the team to a bowl next year, they get a $20 card to Bass Pro Shops.
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Shut your mouth! The dots are beginning to connect ...

It's well-known Bass Pro is a favorite hang-out of JVB. With the whole football distraction behind him now, I could see a management position in his cards. Combined with this little nugget of inside chatter, it explains how The Corporal and The Gerg were able to continue the, "He gives us the best chance to win." public placation.

Anybody have Oliver Stone's number. While I'd prefer it be through competent coaching and a competitive scheme resulting in more wins, this might be the last resort to keep Iowa football in the public discussion for the next 5 - 8 years.
 
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