Quote Originally Posted by CadaverDawg View Post
What if we hired Hudspeth and gave him $2 million to throw at Grantham as DC? Any chance Grantham would come back to Starkville for a big pay day since his son will be here for the next 4 years? To me a Hudspeth/Grantham combo would be as close to a homerun as we could get...and we would instantly be tougher and get rid of that "soft" label Joe has given us. I just don't know if Grantham would leave Florida unless it was for a HC job or something.

Thoughts?
Looking at the numbers Grantham is paid 1.8 so I would imagine it would probably be more like 2.0-2.5 million to realistically get him. That would actually put him on par or higher than Dave Aranda's AAV and he's the highest paid DC in the country. Being able to say that he's the highest paid guy in football plus being able to see his son conveniently would probably make him think long and hard about it.

At worst I think it would cause a bidding war with Florida which may cause them to overpay him or call his bluff and say "take it". And that would cause a trickle down effect for Florida which would cost them more money for assistants. And I'm all for sticking it to Florida. It also might cause Dan to lose his Joe Lee Dunn which I'm also all for. Good new for him is Manny Diaz might be available...again.

It's kind of like post buyout interest in a way.

IF it is Hud I wouldn't be surprised if he kept Shoop simply because they have worked together before so there is more known about how they work together and it would ease any transition because the defensive players would know the system on their side of the ball already.