TheReff
Rod Griffin
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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.
So Pilch, you aren't considering Butch Davis a cheater? Did not he just get caught at UNC? Yes, you can say cheater Hugh Freeze, but we can also say that 3 others to last get penalized probations have come from the ACC besides UNC from 2012-2014--FSU [2009-2012], GT [2011-2014] & Miami [2011-2012 self imposed bowl ban]....so don't be running on & on how lily white you think the ACC is because you just don't have the facts! Or are conveniently forgetting them. We are just playing catch up & even with cheating can't get there! We have 3 great teams right now & 1 "natty". Some of the rest are trying to get better and are doing that. VT seems to be on their way--probably have Louisville on probation soon with know 'Ridin Dirty' Petrino who fits right back in with Pitino!
vs SC [2012-2014], LSU [2011], UT [2013-2014] & Bama [2009-2011]
Meanwhile in the past 10 years it is SEC 8 titles, ACC 1 title & Big Ten 1. No wonder they deserve the higher salaries. So despite your denial, they are worth every penny and I would say [maybe you wouldn't] that just by bowl game records in the past 2 years, going 9-2 & 'only' 7-5 the prior year, say what you want but the overpaid West was 7-1, meanwhile the ACC was 4-6 [worst of Power 5 @ .400] & 4-7 [4th out of 5].
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