2008-09 Football Budgets

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Football expenses for 2008-2009:

Ohio State $32.3 million
Auburn $28.8 million
Iowa $26.9 million
Alabama $26.44 million
Tennessee $22.96 million
Florida $22.86 million
LSU $22.74 million
Wisconsin $22.71 million
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Georgia $19.83 (7th in SEC)
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GT $16.12 (7th in ACC)

Link:
http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/20...io-state-could-change-nickname-to-bucks-eyes/

Rest of ACC:
1. Miami $20.97
2. Boston College $19.40
3. Clemson $18.84
4. Virginia Tech $18.27
5. Virginia $17.22
6. Florida State $16.70
7. Georgia Tech $16.12
8. Duke $15.74
9. North Carolina $15.36
10. Wake Forest $13.41
11. Maryland $11.72
12. North Carolina State $11.00
 
Wonder why BC is so high.

If we're spending around what VT and FSU spend, then we're spending enough.
 
How much under the table do the top ten spend?

Kinda like the Yankees of MLB. The NCAA is not a level playing field.
 
beej67 said:
Wonder why BC is so high.

If we're spending around what VT and FSU spend, then we're spending enough.
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No, we're not. PJ is, I believe, the second highest paid coach. We don't pay our assistants enough, and it shows up in places like special teams and on a certain Wednesday in February.
 
How does Miami spend so much? Where has that money been going?
 
Auburn and tOSU also have significantly higher player salaries than we do.
 
jacketup said:
No, we're not. PJ is, I believe, the second highest paid coach. We don't pay our assistants enough, and it shows up in places like special teams and on a certain Wednesday in February.
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Do you honestly think PJ would fire some of our current assistants (damn near all of which have ties to him) in order to hire 'bigger names' if we granted him a bigger assistant budget?

I don't. If we need better position coaching, the thing to do isn't to fire guys and replace them, it's to send them off to learn more from other coaches. We have smart guys. If there's some catching drills (for instance) that we're not doing that some other team is doing, then we just need to learn those drills.

I think the one spot where we need to throw cash is DC, and we've currently got Al Groh on a steal because UVA is still paying him. I think once his contract comes due, and our defense has improved, we'll need to give him a significant raise to bring him up to comparable wages with other DCs around the southeast.

The neat thing about the article, is how it breaks down teams "records by budget." GT is 18-6 vs teams who spend less money than us, and 19-17 vs teams that spend more money than us. Sounds bad, but Tech is #2 in the ACC vs teams who spend more money than us EVEN WITH our wretched record vs UGA. The only team with a better record vs teams who outspend them is VT, at a measly 10-8.

vs schools who spend less:

School Win % Record
Virginia Tech .847 39-7
Georgia Tech .750 18-6
Boston College .696 39-17
Maryland .692 9-4
Wake Forest .687 11-5
Florida State .687 22-10
Clemson .653 32-17
Miami .596 34-23
Virginia .581 25-18
N.C. State .444 4-5
North Carolina .386 7-12
Duke .200 4-16

vs schools who spend more:

School Win % Record
Virginia Tech .555 10-8
Georgia Tech .527 19-17
Wake Forest .525 21-19
North Carolina .432 16-21
Clemson .416 5-7
Florida State .413 12-17
Maryland .363 16-28
N.C. State .355 16-29
Boston College .333 1-2
Virginia .187 3-13
Duke .067 2-28
Miami .000 0-3

Also, I lolled at this:

Of the 66 schools in the automatic qualifying BCS conferences – the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and SEC plus Notre Dame – only six teams had a losing record over the past five seasons when playing schools that spent less money on their football programs.

The Not-So-Super Six are: Duke (4-16 record against schools that spent less money, .200 winning percentage); Syracuse (10-35, .222); Washington (13-33, .282); North Carolina (7-12, .386); Iowa State (13-19, .426) and N.C. State (4-5, .444).
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beej67 said:
I don't. If we need better position coaching, the thing to do isn't to fire guys and replace them, it's to send them off to learn more from other coaches. We have smart guys. If there's some catching drills (for instance) that we're not doing that some other team is doing, then we just need to learn those drills.
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I think most of our guys wrote the book on the positions they coach in this offense. There may be some skills drills that can be learned, but most of our issues with catching (for example) is that our WR's don't practice it enough. They practice blocking far more - which is by far a lesser skill for most of the guys we get - and a critical node in our offense.
 
Lack of practice time catching didn't seem to bother Bebe. Or all those AF receivers. Or Navy's the times I saw them.
 
stinger78 said:
I think most of our guys wrote the book on the positions they coach in this offense. There may be some skills drills that can be learned, but most of our issues with catching (for example) is that our WR's don't practice it enough. They practice blocking far more - which is by far a lesser skill for most of the guys we get - and a critical node in our offense.
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My only fear about our current staff is that there's so much inbreeding with it.

When you're applying for a professor job at a university, for instance, they don't like hiring people who got their masters and PhD from the same school, because all they'll do is teach the same stuff they learned, and the department doesn't really grow in knowledge.

I do worry some that we might run into some of that with our staff. When Mullin and Meyer developed their offensive system, for instance, they went around and surveyed a lot of other team's staffs to try and figure out how they could incorporate other principles with their system.

I think our system is largely unique, and pretty darn cool, and CPJ always talks about "adding a wrinkle" whenever someone figured out a way to stop them. Without fresh perspectives we may run out of wrinkles. And increasingly I worry about things like motivational tactics, or other off the field issues, and wonder if our coaches couldn't learn some from exposure to other staffs.

One wrinkle I'd love to see, is no huddle. I think no huddle would be devastating in our system if we could run it in a certain way. I'm not talking about the Oregon Flash Card method, but running a play, and if it works run up to the line and snap the same play, and if it works then run up and snap a similar play that plays off the adjustments the D is going to do to the first play, and have all that semi-scripted so the defense is stuck on the field dealing with it. I think that sort of thing could be amazing, because it would completely wear defenses out to deal with the additional tempo during a PJDM.
 
beej67 said:
Wonder why BC is so high.

If we're spending around what VT and FSU spend, then we're spending enough.
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Higher tuition is the most likely answer...

Small private school in Boston.
 
rghoae said:
Higher tuition is the most likely answer...

Small private school in Boston.
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This is probably true for Miami too, they are private as well. In-state students we get should help with the expenses for us and other state universities.
 
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