RGard

April 13th, 2015 at 4:57 PM ^

can cause serious medical conditions including bone splintering. 

I wonder if his OSU medical insurance considers trips to the U of M hospital an 'out of network' visit?

 

Note: edited several times due to shit spelling and grammar.

Hello_Heisman

April 13th, 2015 at 5:07 PM ^

I mean, besides going 39-3 in 3 years, playing in 2 B1G championship games and winning a NC of course. 

There's nothing worse than trying to hate on a rival when the team you root for hasn't been able to hold up its end of the bargain for over a decade.  Now I know what it was like to be an MSU fan from 1967-2007.

 

Hello_Heisman

April 13th, 2015 at 10:00 PM ^

Settle down. I remember when UM used to beat OSU on a regular basis. What I hate is that it doesn't happen anymore. It's a lot easier to come up with good material to bust on your rival when you don't lose to them every year. Didn't think I was making a very complicated point on this one, so congrats on making a mountain out of a molehill.

Also, from the Department of Are You New Here, you could answer your own question simply by looking at the "Joined" date underneath my logo.

East German Judge

April 13th, 2015 at 5:29 PM ^

I wonder if the contract extension included a tattoo parlor near campus.   There is nothing that those degenerate bucknuts wont get tattooed on themselves.  If you get ink, make it special not childish.

 

BlueinLansing

April 13th, 2015 at 5:41 PM ^

well less than $1 million in the early 80's.  At one point Texas A&M offered something around $750,000 per year to be their head coach. (1982 or so)

 

Today's 1982 equivalent of $1,000,000 is around $2,400,000.  Just to show how out of whack college coaches compensation has become.

 

Or put it another way, Urban's 2015 compensation would be $2.5 million in 1982.  No one was paid that kind of money to coach college football back then, not even close

Philmypockets

April 14th, 2015 at 12:49 AM ^

The salary is actually low based upon marketing revenue, ticket prices, and the fans a great coach can draw. Michigan already made over 300k more off the spring game sales over last year, not including apparel. That is one day of practice! You guys are really poor at balance sheets if you wouldn't pay a coach like Jim or Urban even 5 million more per year over another average coach. You will easily double that money on advertising alone and donations from alumni.

Muttley

April 15th, 2015 at 12:47 AM ^

back then, and the commitment to those expenditures leaves the AD with no choice but to run a highly profitable football program.

The UM Football program brings in ~$85 million in revenues on $25 million in expenditures for a $60 million profit for the football program alone at last count.  (Pre Harbaugh.)

But guess what?  That profit isn't accumulating as cash in the bank.  Rather, it has already been committed to Taj Mahal facilities for non-revenue sports as well as for the football team. So the athletic department HAS BECOME DEPENDENT UPON that $60 million annual profit that it funnels elsewhere.

And how do you keep generating a $60 million annual profit?  Not with the product that Hoke was putting on the field.  Coaches like Jim Harbaugh are a VERY SCARCE resource.  Filling his position with "some other guy" from the ranks of college coaches wouldn't protect that $60 million annual profit.

 

 

 

LSAClassOf2000

April 13th, 2015 at 5:44 PM ^

I will say that when I saw the title of the thread initially, I first thought "Making a coach appear taller is a very OSU thing indeed...", but engrossed in spring practice as he is at the moment, he communicated his feelings in an extremely boilerplate statement. From CBS:

"I am honored to serve as football coach at The Ohio State University and to represent this great university," said Meyer in a release. "It is a privilege to coach and mentor the young men in this program, and I want to thank President Drake and Mr. Smith for their support and their trust in me."

I am sure that President Drake is relieve that, by extension, his own job is safe for the time being. 

CoachBP6

April 14th, 2015 at 1:18 AM ^

There is no way Meyer tries his hand at the NFL. In the NFL you can't oversign, bend rules, and treat people like shit. Urban is a college coach all the way. In the NFL there is a level playing field, Urban would have health problems and family issues halfway through his first season.

I would love to see him in the NFL though, for no other reason than him getting pissed off every second when he realizes he isn't the worlds greatest nfl coach.

UofM626

April 13th, 2015 at 6:19 PM ^

MEYER is a sleeve and everyone knows he asked to be extended so when he bolts for the NFL or the PHANTOM ILLNESS. They will either pay him more to stay or have to pay him the full amount. Here in Cali its speculated that he is looking around at the NFL and had his contract language changed to if he leaves he still gets paid. OSU jumped at the chance to change it to keep him as they are riding high off the championship just won....