Terrell Buckley Offered Job

[bulldawg28]

If they think he's worth whatever we offer, L'Ville can match or exceed it.... they have the resources

If they felt he was worth it they would have already offered him more money. I look at it from a value standpoint.

[Spiderman]

It's not all about the money with Buck he & his family want to get closer to home.

Wish that had been true when we were recruiting him out of HS

[msstate7]

It's not all about the money with Buck he & his family want to get closer to home.

Where's home?

[Coach34]

It's not all about the money with Buck he & his family want to get closer to home.

so Steve whiffed earlier in the week saying T-Buck was out of the picture....

[Coach34]

Where's home?

coast

[msstate7]

coast

Good deal

[Eric Nies Grind Time]

It's not all about the money with Buck he & his family want to get closer to home.

Assuming he wasn't terrible with his money during his playing days he is already quite rich. I doubt 100,000 one way or the other makes much of a difference to him.

[deltadawg99]

In Steve's defense, he didn't say T-Buck was out of the picture, he just said it wasn't a done deal and things has slowed down a bit.

My guess is we were looking at a DC that would also be Safeties coach and it didn't work out. Mel Tucker perhaps

[Coach34]

In Steve's defense, he didn't say T-Buck was out of the picture, he just said it wasn't a done deal and things has slowed down a bit.

My guess is we were looking at a DC that would also be Safeties coach and it didn't work out. Mel Tucker perhaps

Well thats absolutely what happened. We even talked money with Tucker. Not sure if Georgia offered more (which I'm sure they did), Tucker's relationship with Smart was the final factor, or what- but we were getting close with Tucker. As Ive said- I think Tucker or Allen would be a win for us. I love the Buckley choice- he would be a very good recruiter and is probably a good coach.

[sandwolf]

It's not all about the money with Buck he & his family want to get closer to home.

Steve said the same thing yesterday.....he said that based on what he was being told, Buckley will accept the job if it is offered to him.

[Ifyouonlyknew]

My question is when did we talk to Mel Tucker? I seriously doubt we had a sit down with him. Knowing Saban I really doubt he let Tucker lose for an interview the week of the national championship.

[Ifyouonlyknew]

Steve said the same thing yesterday.....he said that based on what he was being told, Buckley will accept the job if it is offered to him.

We offered yesterday 3yrs/$350k a year

[Dawg496]

What did Hughes make? Are we making any progress in the assistants salaries department?

[Coach34]

My question is when did we talk to Mel Tucker? I seriously doubt we had a sit down with him. Knowing Saban I really doubt he let Tucker lose for an interview the week of the national championship.

Sunday

[Ifyouonlyknew]

What did Hughes make? Are we making any progress in the assistants salaries department?

$450k I'm pretty sure but he was also Assoc HC & RC.

[engie]

Hughes made $400k with up to a $33k bonus.

FWIW -- one thing that definitely always has to be comparable -- OM just upped their assistant pool to $4.26mil. Ours is currently $3.29mil. Not saying that anyone on staff other than Gonzo deserves a raise right now -- but we've never done a great job investing in assistants.

[maroonmania]

And just to drive home the point that we have to up our assistants' pay to play big boy football, Alabama just raised their S&C coach up to 600K/yr to keep him. So now Alabama's S&C coach makes more than we paid ANY coach on our entire staff last year. Diaz would have gotten to 600K this coming year had he stayed.

[Ifyouonlyknew]

Hughes made $400k with up to a $33k bonus.

FWIW -- one thing that definitely always has to be comparable -- OM just upped their assistant pool to $4.26mil. Ours is currently $3.29mil. Not saying that anyone on staff other than Gonzo deserves a raise right now -- but we've never done a great job investing in assistants.

I think our assistants will get a raise this year not sure how much. Coming into this season our assistants were making more than OM's.

[msstate7]

Aren't we like doubling what Buckley makes now? Seems we made a good offer... Why offer more just for the hell of it?

[Political Hack]

If this happens, we've got two young NFL guys coaching our secondary with ties to MS. The way CDM is identifying coaching candidates is pretty impressive. Outside of the constant churn at DC and his reluctance to make Hev prioritize recruiting, you really can't put much else on Mullen. Given the lack of financial commitment to assistants that we've shown historically, he's doing pretty damn good at finding good coaches.