OT: Todd Grantham (ex-DC @ Georgia) hired by Louisville
Per Joe Schad:
Todd Grantham will get 5 year guaranteed deal, $1 million per year at Louisville
— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) January 12, 2014
January 12th, 2014 at 5:07 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 5:12 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 5:33 PM ^
Georgia should consider a new strength and training coordinator. It's one thing if you have a brash of injuries one year, but when it happens like clockwork, there's something wrong.
January 12th, 2014 at 10:52 PM ^
There's nothing worse for a team than a brash of injuries.
January 13th, 2014 at 8:18 AM ^
Like gastric ulcers or eye strain. You can keep your nasal avulsions and compound fractures, thanks very much.
January 12th, 2014 at 8:12 PM ^
Did they have key injuries on the defensive side as well? I know they were down to walk-ons at WR position.
January 12th, 2014 at 8:00 PM ^
out of trouble. He's very underpaid at that salary.
January 12th, 2014 at 5:19 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 5:23 PM ^
Grantham will be making less than a quarter of Hoke's salary.
Edit: Derp. Still, Mattison makes close to that, plus Nussmeier will too.
January 12th, 2014 at 6:55 PM ^
I thought Petrino already got himself fired and I somehow missed it.
January 13th, 2014 at 8:21 AM ^
The Browns ownership/management and Petrino have similar ideas about honoring commitments, maybe that would be a perfect fit.
January 12th, 2014 at 5:26 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 5:58 PM ^
I disagree. Just because one school is stupid and overpays for an average SEC DC, doesn't mean the rest of the CFB world needs to follow suit.
And Grantham is smart to take it. He was probably close to getting fired there anyways. Gets to leave on his own terms, and gets a big raise out of it to.
January 12th, 2014 at 5:58 PM ^
Would it make you feel better if we paid Mattison 2 million a year? He's good, better than Grantham. What else matters? It's not like we got outbid.
And hell, we made Nuss a top 5 paid OC in America.
January 12th, 2014 at 6:02 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 6:05 PM ^
Let's talk about logical processes.
We're willing to pay coaches tons of money - we literally just did it two days ago. Do you want to fire Mattison and hire someone using tons of money? Or do you just want to give Mattison a huge raise because we have money?
I mean, we brought Mattison from his post as the DC of the Ravens. It was a pretty damn good hire - then or now, I'm not sure who you'd prefer. Or what your point is right now.
You confuse me, is the takeaway here.
January 12th, 2014 at 6:36 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 7:39 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 6:36 PM ^
Schools pay what it takes to land these assistants. If they could pay less, they would - it's not like they specifically want to pay more money and reduce their profit margins.
January 12th, 2014 at 6:41 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 6:50 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 6:57 PM ^
This argument is really stupid. Iowa has been outspending the entire Big 10 for their coach for many years (until Dantonio, Meyer, Hoke and now Franklin cracked the big time). Brb 4 million + / year for Ferentz, probably the worst contract in all of CFB.
January 13th, 2014 at 1:33 AM ^
Mattison is the highest paid assistant in the B1G making 851.4k. Al Borges was making over 700k.
Michigan State has two of the lowest paid assistants in the co-offensive coordinators.
So just because we don't pay our assistants over 1 mil per year means we suck? I don't get it.
January 13th, 2014 at 11:43 AM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 5:20 PM ^
I also thought I had heard that Garrick McGee, formerly of UAB, will be the offensive coordinator, so if that is the case, that rounds out the coordinator hires. Question for someone who might know for certain - wasn't Grantham the defensive line coach for the Spartans when Saban was at Michigan State, at least for a few years?
January 12th, 2014 at 5:28 PM ^
Continuing the OT trend of the topic, the online speculation says Richt might make a run at Kirby Smart (Bama's DC), apparently he has some ties to Georgia.
January 12th, 2014 at 5:33 PM ^
Does Georgia have that kind of cash to spend on its DC?
January 12th, 2014 at 5:46 PM ^
Does Georiga have the cash? Really?? This isn't Georgia State or Georgia Southern, its Georgia. They have tons of money.
January 12th, 2014 at 7:04 PM ^
Alabama, who clearly has a lot of money to throw around too, more than Georgia, I'd think.
January 12th, 2014 at 5:53 PM ^
Kirby was an all-SEC DB at Geogia, and then started his coaching career there as a GA. He also made a brief pit stop there in 2005 as their RBs coach, before leaving for Miami in 2006. So yeah, there's a lot of ties with Kirby Smart and Georgia. And considering how Alabama's defense underperformed this season, Kirby might be wise to take a new job with Georgia if the price (just a guess...$1.4M??) is right.
Would be a huge coup for Georgia too. Upgrade their own DC and hurt a rival at the same time.
January 12th, 2014 at 6:02 PM ^
Smart has been mentioned repeatedly as Richt's successor, given the obvious ties. If they signed him up with an implied agreement that he's the next coach, I don't see why he wouldn't do it.
Unless: he's also rumoured to be Saban's choice as eventual successor, if that goddamn robot zombie ever actually ages.
January 13th, 2014 at 1:10 AM ^
Smart played at Georgia, and the current UGA OC was Smart's roommate in college.
I believe he has said the UGA HC job would be his dream job, and it's believed Richt won't coach as long as people tihnk.
January 12th, 2014 at 5:40 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 5:54 PM ^
True, but they weren't neayl as dominant as they should have been when they had those guys. Good move by Grantham.
January 12th, 2014 at 6:00 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 6:11 PM ^
I think that having an overly aggressive salary as a coordinator lines oneself up for extra criticism when the chips are down for whatever reason. It might be skillful negotiations or having a good agent (lawyer?) but everyone knows when the coordinators are highly paid.
Louisville seems to be doing some odd stuff anyway. Now they have an identity 8-)
January 12th, 2014 at 6:17 PM ^
Sure gave Desmond a lot of material on Gameday when he was going off on Borges.
January 12th, 2014 at 6:17 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 6:33 PM ^
Give Kiffen that job too, Nick, you're on a roll
January 12th, 2014 at 8:24 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 6:29 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 7:22 PM ^
you would think he would need to think about it especially if smart leaves bama too i mean thats both guys he will be working with there, they could go a different way with there defernse, plus i hear they want to turn him into a LB
January 12th, 2014 at 7:28 PM ^
Louville could really do a Downton Abbey themed rollout of the new hire at the press conference......
January 12th, 2014 at 8:00 PM ^
How can Louisville afford this? That's a lot of money.
January 12th, 2014 at 8:26 PM ^
John $$$?
January 13th, 2014 at 3:06 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 9:12 PM ^
I just graduated from Georgia so I experienced every year of his tenure. He really underperformed last year. The worse part is how many of his hyper talented guys seemed to regress. Rambo never figured out how to play deep safety and Jarvous would fly straight upfield on every snap. This year the defense was going to be bad no matter what. The secondary did improve but almost all of their linebacks looked like Obi Ezeh ie stand still and take a block. I think Georgia is happy to have him gone
January 12th, 2014 at 9:14 PM ^
What!? He was just a head coach at a great school, and was a win away from a Rose Bowl. I thought he was an offensive mastermind?
January 12th, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^
January 12th, 2014 at 11:22 PM ^
We shell out plenty of money for coordinators. Our position coaches are kind of underpaid compared to the SEC though.