I never said a word about the SEC, only cut & pasted from the ESPN site it came from yesterday. Typical of you to over-react to what I was listing, huh? But that said, if you want to play with the big boys in college football that get 78,000 per game at all 14 schools, than you have to pay to play....just sayin since you brought it up. But according to the article yesterday we are the lowest of the Power 5 leagues in average salary. Makes it hard to attract top coaches [and top of the line assistants more importantly that will stay]. The SEC & Big XII & PAC will do that! The ACC & Big Ten need to catch up. Maybe the new TV contracts will help down the road? But even those are smaller than others per team.
Now if Ed Ogeron, who happens to be an upgrade on the offensive skills over Madhatter Miles who had gone stale with his offense and was showing it the past few years, happens to do some special things the next few weeks, who knows what they might do for him. Time will tell, just as all coaches who get into jobs. Nobody would have ever figured Dabo would be where he is today when he first got that interim job either in the mid-season! The ACC has a definite upgrade in their coaches in the past year with Fuentes, Mendenhall & Richt [even Babers from what I see] but it was a very weak to mediocre slate before that with Beamer getting too old & London just not being able to coach! But the jury is still out at BC, GT, NC State [may even have to see if non-drinking Mormons can coach at a drinking school like UVa?]
OK, will spell it out for you:
a) You pasted a listing of median (not average, BTW, there is a difference) head coaches salaries by conference.
b) The highest median HC salary on your list was the SEC coaches;
c) Fifth on the list is the ACC coaches;
d) Your obtuse comment was "ACC lowest paid on
average by $1.5 mill per coach in Power 5 to top conference. If so good, need to step it up!"
Despite the denial, your post openly compared the ACC to the SEC, and offered the misplaced comment that by overpaying for the likes of Les Miles, Will Muschamp, Mark Stoops, Brett Bielema, Butch Jones, cheater Hugh Freeze, the SEC was somehow stepping it up, and the ACC was not keeping up.
Wrong. One reason why the SEC has declined is that they have made several bad hires and compounded the bad hire with big money payouts. The ACC has stepped it up with good hires (Petrino, Fuente, Clawson, Doeren, Narduzzi, Fedora, possibly Babers) at more rational prices. That's a positive for the ACC not a negative.
By way of example, Mark Stoops would be the 4th highest paid coach in the ACC (btw, so would be the exceedingly mediocre Kliff Kingsbury). Do you consider that as Kentucky stepping up? More accurately, Kentucky is throwing away its money.
