If the most common rumor about his departure is true, there are 0 ADs in the Power Five who would have been able to look the other way. Maybe for football, but no one is taking that legal risk for women's basketball.
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I don't understand your logic, to the coach either school paying him X number of dollars is the same to them. Doesn't matter who has the bigger war chest, to the coach it's the same amount either way. It's not about the money it's about the prestige of the program.
Who are our biggest boosters, I legit do not know
The money we are discussing is the coaches salary. A Million dollars is a million dollars regardless of who is paying.
I understand what you are saying and of course the more prestigious also have larger war chests. A lot of that is because of generation upon generation upon generation of supporting winning programs. We don't have 80 - 100 years worth of football winning history that developed a prestigious program with large donors wanting support the program. But we have a large enough pool of money to match what other schools will offer a coach for his salary. That's not really the issue with us as a program anymore.
State has big boosters. They donate a lot of money. The donations go to education. For example, the Swalm chemical building cost millions and was donated by Dave Swalm..an engineer. OTOH, lawyers and doctors may also fund education, but they have more discretionary income and they donate to athletic programs as well. By the way, all graduates from those schools are not doctors and lawyers, but there are enough of them to fund athletics because they need all the tax breaks they can get.
[QUOTE=FISHDAWG;1474826]He damn near doubled his salary... I get that Texas is considered a better job but don't act like money had nothing to do with it... OMG **
We offered to match Texas to keep him. Just like we offered Mullen a matching salary to stay to not go to Florida.