Just heard Bammer has offered Marshall OVER $4MM per year

[Coach34]

determined to make it impossible to say no

[msstate7]

Will texas top that? Either way, Wichita st is losing their HC

[I seen it dawg]

Dumb

[Goat from MSU]

Wrong He got it made there and loves it there .

Will texas top that? Either way, Wichita st is losing their HC

[smootness]

I don't think that's enough.

Any of the elite jobs can pay at least that, and one of them (probably Indiana) is destined to come open in the next 1-3 years.

[Bothrops]

That's wreaking of desperation if true. 4 million or 40 million, he'd still only be second fiddle. He should definitely wait and get a job at a large basketball school in a year or two.

[Coach34]

$2.5MM raise gonna be tough to turn down. Especially if they give him assurance he can lead the project to upgrade facilities

[Goat from MSU]

Would you rather be a god at the school you coach or a mere human at another. Beside Wichita St. can get it to 3 million anyway. He is staying put.

$2.5MM raise gonna be tough to turn down. Especially if they give him assurance he can lead the project to upgrade facilities

[ScottH]

Just depends if Kochs' want to match it or not.

Koch = actual deep pockets

[msstate7]

More money, but much better competition. Cal, Donavon, pearl, and howland (love this)... Does Marshall have the belief in himself to step it up? I hope not

[msstate7]

Speaking of Marshall... We have 2 guys (black and Daniels) that had Wichita st offers. Be interesting to see what howland can do with them

[Bully13]

I don't care for the " I don't want to go to a football first school"...got news for you Marshall, schools are either a "football first school" or they want to be .

that said, I hope bamer doesn't get what they want.

[Dawgcentral]

Would you rather be a god at the school you coach or a mere human at another. Beside Wichita St. can get it to 3 million anyway. He is staying put.

I wouldn't want to "be a god", anywhere. I'd take the 4M and do the best I could though, even if it meant living amongst the Satanites for a few years.

[blacklistedbully]

Not just about the short-term money. If he accepts $4 mil per year at Bama, he's gonna have to win big and win fast. Can't see them putting up with much losing at that salary. And if he didn't win there soon, what do his prospects look like from there in terms of big-time jobs with a big-time salary?

Let's say he takes it and makes around $16 mil before fired. how long does he sit before getting another job? How much less salary? he most likely will have pissed away his chance at landing one of the elite jobs.

Now let's say Wichita State bumps him up to $3 mill. He stays another year, maybe two, then gets the chance to take one of the elite jobs that easily recruits top athletes and already has all the advantages. Unlike the Bama job, he'd have to screw up to lose there. Now he's making the big bucks, and is in a place that, assuming he's a great a coach as everyone thinks, he'll get great recruits, tons of support, and continue to win games and compete for championships.

Seems to me, it wouldn't take long at all, in the grand scheme of things, to vastly exceed the money he would earn by waiting for that elite job to come calling.

That's my 2 cents, anyway.

[DancingRabbit]

A lot of chatter has him going to Texas. That's my guess. They have more basketball tradition than Bama and can pay like Bama.

[Dawgcentral]

I won't disagree. I'm just pontificating from the prospective of imagining 4 years work for 16M.

Sure he could advance to an elite BB program after taking the bump at WS,..I just feel like worrying about " being the god on campus", is more about an ego trip than anything else. One can have passion for their occupation, but first and foremost in my mind would be making that big move to achieve a few generations of financial security.

[msstate7]

Personally I think bama should throw that money at smart. The type of players in the south would fit smart's system much better imo

[yjnkdawg]

$2.5MM raise gonna be tough to turn down. Especially if they give him assurance he can lead the project to upgrade facilities

He is supposed to get unlimited resources (plane travel facilites, etc. ). Basically from what I heard last week on a CBS Podcast, Bama is going to make him turn them down. Money is supposedly no object and Nick Saban was supposed to be involved in the recruiting.

[yjnkdawg]

Will texas top that? Either way, Wichita st is losing their HC

It was said on a CBS Podcast, last week that it was expected that Barnes would be fired and if Marshall left Wichita State, it would be to Texas. Bama wanted Barnes to remain Texas' coach because Texas is a huge obstacle for them.

[yjnkdawg]

Personally I think bama should throw that money at smart. The type of players in the south would fit smart's system much better imo

Supposedly Bama was throwing everything at Marshall and if he didn't accept, then it was Miller and then Prohm.