Quote Originally Posted by yjnkdawg View Post
I agree our assistant coaches need more money, but if we have an assistant coach who Bama wants, and our coach, being offered by Bama, has mutual feelings about moving to Tuscaloosa, then you can forget ir on the money thing. So yeah we need to supplement our assistant coaches, but that is not going to prevent things like this.
I agree, we were probably paying him pretty competitively for most normal college football programs, heck, even competively for the SEC, but when you compete with Bama you are basically competing with an NFL franchise with unlimited resources. I do think overall we should bump our assistants' pay WHERE there is someone that our HC wants to do all we can to not lose. We certainly should have, at a minimum, our assistant pay in line with what OM has, but none of that will ever stop us from losing an assistant that Bama comes after because we can't afford to pay on that scale as a norm.