http://www.buckys5thquarter.com/wisconsin-badgers-football/2012/12/4/372...
Can we now kill all the talk of how the B1G is so cheap and the ESS EEE SEE just spends whatever it takes? Clearly there was a lot more to this than the cash issue.
???
Dude...
You could make that into change and swim through it in your money vault!
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indeed!
^^ ol Bret after signing
"Touchdown... No flags!!"
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as a kid
I had this picture in puzzle form
That would hurt so bad to
That would hurt so bad to dive into a pile of coins. I'd do it for $600,000 tho
If I tell you it's Easter, you better start looking for eggs.
Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMyk7MXsseg
Yup still cant embed....
600k?
That's not even enough to make a Benjamin Pile.
Biels can make it rain with those extra 600 large
in his pocket. Fayetteville road trip is on!
It's been 2 hours and
It's been 2 hours and nobody's photoshopped Bielema's head on this yet. MGoBlog, I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.
Would do it myself but I'm working.
"The straightest line from A to B is straight: From A to B"
"When you have Denard Robinson, you can have everything"
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Here you go...
Originally, I had his head coming up from the money in a crotch shot, but heck this is MGoBlog and we're a classy bunch.
You, sir, are a gentleman and
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar
"The straightest line from A to B is straight: From A to B"
"When you have Denard Robinson, you can have everything"
~George Walden
I am going to pretend I
I am going to pretend I didn't see only in the title.
The Team, The Team, The Team.
I wish I could get only a
I wish I could get only a $600,000 raise...
I hope that
I can earn $600,000 cummulatively in the my entire life.
Bielema left for money, but he left because Wisconsin tripped into the Rose Bowl this year but is a program on the decline running out of QBs to poach, and because Michigan and Ohio are going to be kicking ass and taking names for the next 10 years in the Big Ten. If you are going to lose two to four games per year you might as well do it for $600,000 more.
So you think Bama, LSU, and
So you think Bama, LSU, and Tamu are going away. Not only that but Biels will face them every year.
Here's hoping for a bright future. This team does try hard and I will continue to support them.
really?
$600k over a lifetime would be near or below the poverty level.
$15k/year.
assuming a forty year work life. Since few people making that money over their lifetime can afford to retire at 62, you're probably talking about sixty years of working, or ten thousand dollars per year.
Go Blue!
What are you trying to say?
Michigan grads can't be poor? /s
And no, Bama, LSU, etc., are not going anywhere, but two losses in the Big Ten and you are unranked, two losses in the SEC puts you close to or into the playoff discussion.
Chump change.
Chump change.
Btw, Tennessee seems to be having trouble getting the coach they want. I've heard reports that they've offered 5 or even 5.5 million per year to the Okie State coach.
Last name I heard was Mike
Last name I heard was Mike Gundy, but it seems like he is going to stay at Ok St.
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Got a program going in a
Got a program going in a football mad state, Close to Texas recruiting grounds, and T. Boone Pickens backing him. All with a fan base that is mostly happy for the success vs. the craziness of Tennessee fans. I'd stay at Ok. St., too.
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Mike Gundy won't go for
Mike Gundy won't go for anything under $40 million.
"The straightest line from A to B is straight: From A to B"
"When you have Denard Robinson, you can have everything"
~George Walden
He's the Man
.
So it was unlikely that he left for the dough.
Must have been the better public schools in Fayetteville.
Keep your stick on the ice.
$600,000 is probably the
$600,000 is probably the difference in what the Athletic Departments are paying. I suspect football is more of a religion in Arkansas, which means that the TV and endorsement money is significantly more. Of course, Bielema's decision might also be related to the fact that he sees Michigan recruiting like crazy and Nebraska in the rear view mirror and is cognizant of the fact that the Badger run of success is about to end and it's time to get out while the getting is good.
Or it could be that he knows
Or it could be that he knows his assistants will get paid better at arkansas and understands that good coordinators are important. Or it could be that recruiting is easier at arkansas than at wisconsin so he feels the ceiling is higher. Or maybe he is just tired of the cold. Who cares? There are any number of reasons this decision got made and the people trying to pit this as an sec vs big ten thing are creating a story that isn't there. Arkansas is at worst on the same level as wisconsin as a desirable job and with that maybe personal things is what drove him to arkansas, we don't know but it also doesn't really matter.
Actually...
His new wife is from Arkansas, and wants to be closer to her family.
Those are good points.
At
Those are good points.
At least one person on the radio here in Minnesota asserts, plausibly, that Bielema wants to coach in the NFL someday; if that is the case I completely understand this move. As long as he's at Wisconsin no NFL team will give him a second glance, chalking up his success to 20th century strategy, a second-rate conference, and the good fortune of dropping into a nice situation. After all, nobody in the B1G really quakes in their shoes about facing Bielema as a coach.
Further, if he moved laterally to another "Midwestern" program, the same stigma would follow. On the other hand, if he goes to Arkansas and wins, he suddenly looks a whole lot more impressive. And the League might come calling.
If he wants to coach in the NFL, he made the right choice.
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Greg Schiano says "hi".
Greg Schiano says "hi".
I only got a $600,000 raise......
Then I woke myself up with a fart.
"Yep"
Reading this in Hank's voice
Reading this in Hank's voice makes this even funnier
"Ohio is like a giant turd that Michigan just can't pinch off"
Not sure if sarcasm on the
Not sure if sarcasm on the "only $600,000".
you do realize that that is about half a million more
than even many of the tenured people who actually TEACH the kids in our universities make?
You do realize that there is one head coach of a football team
and literally hundreds of professorships at a university do you not?. Apples to oranges, sir. Also the average professor at a Big Ten university makes 6 figures. They aren't exactly hurting for money.
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I'm not here to rant about coach's salaries so much as to point
out the OP's lack of proportion in suggesting 6 supersized is not much.
Oh good, he can stop camping
Oh good, he can stop camping with the Occupy Wall Street movement now.
The swag is back.
23% raise ain't bad.
23% raise ain't bad.
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Yea, they only gave him a 23%
Yea, they only gave him a 23% raise.
I'd rather have a $600,000
I'd rather have a $600,000 raise than a 23% raise! "Well boss I appeciate the offer but my number was more in the neighborhood of the mid 6 digits for my 2013 cost of living adjustment."
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Counter offer?
Judging by the surprise that Barry Alvarez professed, Bielema did not start this discussion in hopes of a counter offer. Unless that is information that hasn't come out yet.
From what I've heard, the big
From what I've heard, the big part of the deal is that Arkansas has agreed to pay his assistants a significantly larger salary than what Wisconsin has agreed to do. Sounds eerily similar to the change that Michigan went through to get Hoke and Mattison . . .
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Hoke would have paid the
Hoke would have paid the assistants out of his own pocket.
No offense to Hoke's
No offense to Hoke's financial situation, but I doubt he could have afforded Mattison. That said, Mattison probably would have taken a paycut.
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NCAA Violation
That is an NCAA violation. Richt did this recently at Georgia.
I'm hungry. Time to eat.
...but you can have the
...but you can have the contracts set up so the HC takes less and the staff gets more.
How about he only got a 23%
How about he only got a 23% raise! The SEC cheapskates!!
The Team, The Team, The Team.
That
That is 3.6 million more dollars. That's a lot of cash.
THIS IS MICHIGAN
For Comparison....
Compare that to Darrell Hazell, of course (story), whose base compensation will now apparently go from $300,000 annually to $2 million. It is an order of magnitude, at least, if it is a jump from the MAC to the B1G. I wouldn't mind making about six times what I do now either. So, we know now that it wasn't necessarily a security thing or perhaps not primarily about the money either.
The more I think about it, the more I wonder if Bielema thought that this is as good as Wisconsin would get in the context of the Big Ten and that he is trying to leave before he literally hits the performance wall for the program and things became stale, or even went into slow decline with Michigan and Ohio State being a factor. We may never know unless Bret himself speaks about it.
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Another plausible theory. For
Another plausible theory. For a good example of this, look at Kirk Ferentz: Good coach, hit the realistic ceiling at Iowa, got a couple looks from the NFL...
And he's a bad season or two from getting fired. And he probably doesn't have the cash to improve his assistant staff much, so he's stuck with the situation he has.
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OK - for everyone saying
OK - for everyone saying "only 600k???" Can we please just acknowledge that what is a lot of money to someone might not be to someome else? Yeah, football coaches make a lot of money, this is not news.
ONLY 600,000??? That is a TON of money!
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