VAGolf wrote:Calling Jeff Barber an idiot is crossing the line. JB has done some magnificent things for the university and has made some great hires. Yes, he's missed some....but so has literally every person that's ever taken a risk in their life. I'll never fault him for taking a risk...that's the only way you have success in sports.
With that said, the one area that I think needs improving is how we handle contracts. Layer should have never been offered an extension after the basketball tournament. We also shouldn't have paid an unproven coach $638k. This is one area where JB absolutely needs to improve.
Lastly, understand that with Gill's salary come certain expectations. I know no one likes to see a person get fired but collegiate coaching has high turnover for a reason. If you're going to make this kind of money, you had better prove that you're worth it. Almost every coach is 4-6 bad weeks away from getting canned...Gill shouldn't be an exception.
I agree, although it has to be tough to use restraint when for all practical purposes, money is no object I have said it repeatedly before and certainly continue to believe that giving Layer a 4 year extension was JB's worst decision 2 years would have been appropriate IMHO Even then, because we have the resources, he was able to bite the bullet and eat the remaining years It might have kept him around a year longer than he should have been, which is bad
I was surprised to see that the disparity with other BSC coaches is that great Our coordinators should not be making that much No way Their previous resumes and accomplishments at LU simply do not support it
I believe all of our coaches should be getting generous pay based on our resources, but when you throw around that kind of $$$ for coaches who have not demonstrated they are worth it in the open market, you are basically putting a huge chip on the shoulder of every opposing coach
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