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Make him one of the top paid coaches in the Big12 and go from there.

Going to need to pay the asset coaches too. I'm sure many ad's have seen the turn around with our defense

84Cat wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 2:45 pm Going to need to pay the asset coaches too. I'm sure many ad's have seen the turn around with our defense

My thoughts exactly. Gotta keep this assistant group together as best as possible. Cummings, Graham, Doughtery, Carroll, and Paopao gotta be in the running for coaching positions at other schools. All have been excellent coaches and recruiters deserving of some raises.

Going to need to bump Lloyd up too if they are talking this kind of money.

Just don’t put us on the cover of SI…

Merkin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 3:55 pm Going to need to bump Lloyd up too if they are talking this kind of money.

The measly bonus for student success is laughable. Why even include it? There is no reason to pretend that power 4ish college football is anything other than a professional sport.

84Cat wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 2:45 pm Going to need to pay the asset coaches too. I'm sure many ad's have seen the turn around with our defense

The first page of this thread is must read. Chi - I give you props for owning up to your mistake but I have to admit the elevator fart tweet had me in stitches.

Hopefully we're past the point of listening to some prof who rides his bike down Mountain to his little funky office, works on a book, lectures on a topic of debatable value, and brings in no money (i.e.: Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers) complaining that Taylor Swift and all athletes and coaches make too much money. No doubt it's true, but it's as pointless as complaining about gravity.

Too bad the Arizona administration has been so financially irresponsible, but the horses are out of the barn. So, lease out the farmland on Campbell and Roger (just like ASU has done), cut back on financial aid and certain select course offerings, and do the across-the-board 2%. And put on the noise-cancelling headphones until people get tired of whining.

Meanwhile, there's a separate multi-million dollar sports business that needs to be responsibly managed. The Giamatti guy will say that sort of thing shouldn't be attached to universities. And no doubt that's also true, and with the same response as above.

Meanwhile, if you've been dating and you finally find somebody who you think is "the one", you don't just spend the minimum average rate for dates if you want that person to commit to you long-term. Not that you can buy the affections of anybody worthwhile, but after somebody's been patient with you, looking forward to a life of McDonald's, Netflix, and six-packs of Miller Lite may cause them to wonder if they should set their sights higher.

Among available public school information in our new Big XII destination, it goes: Oklahoma St: $7.6M, Kansas: $5M, Kansas St: $4.5M, Texas Tech: $4.1M, Iowa St: $4.0M, West Virginia: $4.0M. Jedd currently makes $2.6M.

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:47 pm The first page of this thread is must read. Chi - I give you props for owning up to your mistake but I have to admit the elevator fart tweet had me in stitches.

Obviously I was wildly confident in my evaluation abilities and not at all confident in Booby Bobbins’s.

Frybry02 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:36 pm

Merkin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 3:55 pm Going to need to bump Lloyd up too if they are talking this kind of money.

The measly bonus for student success is laughable. Why even include it? There is no reason to pretend that power 4ish college football is anything other than a professional sport.

So he makes an additional 10.5 (cumulative incentives?) for winning the natty? Or is it just 3.5?

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:47 pm The first page of this thread is must read. Chi - I give you props for owning up to your mistake but I have to admit the elevator fart tweet had me in stitches.

Wow. After reading that first page I just have to say..........Props to myself! I'm the first one to say anything positive about coach. How amazing I am to myself.

It's a curse to always be right. A curse I tell you!

dmjcat wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 12:32 pm Lets see:

1) 90% of the board (the same 90% who thought Sumlin was a great hire) think Fisch is a terrible choice

2) Chief thinks he's a terrible choice

3) Hansen thinks he's a terrible choice

I'm liking Fisch more and more!

Glad to see that my initial impression of Coach Fisch was dead on

I remember a time when he was at the very bottom of the rankings of D1 coaches. What an ascent

So national coach of the year but not pac12 coach of the year. Sounds about right for this conference

84Cat wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:12 pm So national coach of the year but not pac12 coach of the year. Sounds about right for this conference

Not national coach of the year. Action Network coach of the year.

Little more context in this please? Is that BC, Dougherty and Cummings with him? Who is the old guy there and is is tied in with the UofA in some way? Did that guy give Fisch a blue clippers jersey?

The old guy is Steve Ballmer. He owns the Clippers. Probably just a photo op.

azcat49 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:05 am Little more context in this please? Is that BC, Dougherty and Cummings with him? Who is the old guy there and is is tied in with the UofA in some way? Did that guy give Fisch a blue clippers jersey?

In addition to being the owner of the Clippers, Steve Ballmer is one of the founders of Microsoft and one of the richest men in the US. Hopefully he's giving to our NIL!

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:53 am

azcat49 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:05 am Little more context in this please? Is that BC, Dougherty and Cummings with him? Who is the old guy there and is is tied in with the UofA in some way? Did that guy give Fisch a blue clippers jersey?

In addition to being the owner of the Clippers, Steve Ballmer is one of the founders of Microsoft and one of the richest men in the US. Hopefully he's giving to our NIL!

If he got Balmer to donate, that may be his biggest recruit yet. Just last year he donated $425M to the University of Oregon, which was not his Alma Mater (he dropped out of Stanford with Gates).

Don't forget about Robert Sarver either. Sarver is the new and present owner of the Phoenix Suns and is a native of Tucson and a UofA alum. I'm sure some folks have hit him up for money as well

tgrumpy2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:04 am Don't forget about Robert Sarver either. Sarver is the new and present owner of the Phoenix Suns and is a native of Tucson and a UofA alum. I'm sure some folks have hit him up for money as well

Sorry, former owner of the Suns. He's still loaded

tgrumpy2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:07 am

tgrumpy2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:04 am Don't forget about Robert Sarver either. Sarver is the new and present owner of the Phoenix Suns and is a native of Tucson and a UofA alum. I'm sure some folks have hit him up for money as well

Sorry, former owner of the Suns. He's still loaded

He's also a douchebag.

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:53 am

azcat49 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:05 am Little more context in this please? Is that BC, Dougherty and Cummings with him? Who is the old guy there and is is tied in with the UofA in some way? Did that guy give Fisch a blue clippers jersey?

In addition to being the owner of the Clippers, Steve Ballmer is one of the founders of Microsoft and one of the richest men in the US. Hopefully he's giving to our NIL!

Ballmer is also the star of one of the funniest White Guy Dancing viral videos you will ever see. Not enough money in the world to erase that hilarious memory.

Dude has serious dance skillz.

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:11 am

tgrumpy2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:07 am

tgrumpy2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:04 am Don't forget about Robert Sarver either. Sarver is the new and present owner of the Phoenix Suns and is a native of Tucson and a UofA alum. I'm sure some folks have hit him up for money as well

Sorry, former owner of the Suns. He's still loaded

He's also a douchebag.

Yes he is but he's still rich and I see nothing wrong with taking donations from douchebags. lol

tgrumpy2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:07 am

tgrumpy2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:04 am Don't forget about Robert Sarver either. Sarver is the new and present owner of the Phoenix Suns and is a native of Tucson and a UofA alum. I'm sure some folks have hit him up for money as well

Sorry, former owner of the Suns. He's still loaded

He’s more loaded now.

Article on Coach Fisch:

https://arizonasports.com/story/3539811 ... rted-here/

dmjcat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:21 pm Article on Coach Fisch:

https://arizonasports.com/story/3539811 ... rted-here/

“First of all, we’re playing Oklahoma, so it’s really hard to not get motivated to play Oklahoma,”

Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, it's pretty easy not to get motivated to play Arizona.

Merkin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2023 8:43 am

dmjcat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:21 pm Article on Coach Fisch:

https://arizonasports.com/story/3539811 ... rted-here/

“First of all, we’re playing Oklahoma, so it’s really hard to not get motivated to play Oklahoma,”

Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, it's pretty easy not to get motivated to play Arizona.

Your contrarian-ism baffles me sometimes...

Merkin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2023 8:43 am

dmjcat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:21 pm Article on Coach Fisch:

https://arizonasports.com/story/3539811 ... rted-here/

“First of all, we’re playing Oklahoma, so it’s really hard to not get motivated to play Oklahoma,”

Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, it's pretty easy not to get motivated to play Arizona.

What a silly thing to say. I can think of a lot of reasons to get motivated to play Arizona. That team is leaving the conference that Arizona is about to join. You think they won't get motivated to go out on a positive note? They know Arizona is just itching to add Oklahoma as another notch on their gun handle.

I really don't give a shit whether they are motivated or not or how many players opt out. Good for us. I want 10 wins.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Jedd getting the Rodney Dangerfield treatment.

I swear you guys are out of your minds. lol. I mean that in a good way. I think Jedd making it to the finals tells me they're giving him some love. Correct me if I'm wrong but the coaches that finished above him, haven't they produced hi level teams the last few years?

Considering he was rated dead last in the coaching hires of the 2021 season, I think he has turned some heads

He is getting some love but you just can’t argue about DeBoer getting it. Taking a 4-8 team and going undefeated two years later is very impressive

My point was not that Jedd didn’t win it but finishing fourth.

Coach was on Jim Rome Hour 2 today.

Downloaded the podcast but haven't listened yet.

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 2:09 pm Coach was on Jim Rome Hour 2 today.

Downloaded the podcast but haven't listened yet.

Just make sure it's a high buyout on his part.

Well, he stuck with us about 3x longer than most of his other jobs…

Chicat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:05 pm

Literally makes no sense why he would do this which is why I wasn't worried. Have no idea what his logic is unless he literally only cares about money.