HERE is the ever-valuable USA Today report on coaching salaries.
KNOW that UVA's salary wheelhouse is going to be somewhere in the $1.5 to $2.5mil range, maybe going as high as $3.5mil for the right slam dunk / home run type of hire.
Here are some thoughts generated by a quick perusal of the USA Today report...
-- Harbaugh and Saban above $7mil. Sheesh, this is going to get crazy really quickly. Makes the ~$3mil UVA can afford seem like really small potatoes.
-- I wonder if Tejas is regretting the Charlie Strong contract right now?
-- Ditto State Penn and Franklin's $4.4mil.
-- One of our dream scenarios is Georgia firing Mark Richt and him being a candidate at UVA. But can we afford to match Georgia's $4.1mil?
-- Many VT fans believe they can lure Dan Mullen from Mississippi State. $4mil is out of their price range, I suspect. RichRod's $3.2mil at Arizona might be, as well.
-- Jim Mora Jr. ($3.3mil) is a bargain for UCLA.
-- Ugh, $3.2mil for Mike London. Craig Littlepage should be fired over that contract alone.
-- Cutcliffe for $2mil. What a steal for Duke, wow.
-- Sonny Dykes' $2mil at Cal is looking pretty good today. (Read: Are the Golden Bears About to Break Through?)
-- Ditto Justin Fuente and his $1.4mil at Memphis.
-- In my humble opinion, Notre Dame's got a big bargain in Brian Kelly for $1.2mil.
-- Bryan Harsin ($1.1mil) is due a raise at Boise State.
-- Mark Hudspeth's $1.1mil at Louisiana-Lafayette makes him infinitely poachable.
-- Air Force's Troy Calhoun: $919K.
-- Utah State's Matt Wells (one of my tippy-top favorite candidates for UVA): $753K.
-- Temple's Matt Rhule: $649K.
-- WKU's Jeff Brohm: $614K.
-- ODU's Bobby Wilder: $565K.
-- Tony Sanchez was a high school coach at this time last year. Now he's making $560K at UNLV. Nuts.
-- Toledo's Matt Campbell: $496K
-- Ken Niumatalolo at Navy: $1.6mil. More than I thought they'd be paying, and probably enough to prevent him being poached at this point.
-- Tom Herman's $1.5 at Houston isn't going to be enough to retain him. A P5 school is going to offer him twice that salary, maybe as early as this offseason.
-- Ditto Justin Fuente and his $1.4mil at Memphis.
-- In my humble opinion, Notre Dame's got a big bargain in Brian Kelly for $1.2mil.
-- Bryan Harsin ($1.1mil) is due a raise at Boise State.
-- Mark Hudspeth's $1.1mil at Louisiana-Lafayette makes him infinitely poachable.
-- Air Force's Troy Calhoun: $919K.
-- $802K at Western Michigan makes P.J. Fleck the MAC's highest-paid coach, but his 1-3 record is pretty glaring right now.
-- Utah State's Matt Wells (one of my tippy-top favorite candidates for UVA): $753K.
-- Temple's Matt Rhule: $649K.
-- WKU's Jeff Brohm: $614K.
-- ODU's Bobby Wilder: $565K.
-- Tony Sanchez was a high school coach at this time last year. Now he's making $560K at UNLV. Nuts.
-- Ball State's Pete Lembo: $518K, #103 among 128 FBS coaches.
-- Toledo's Matt Campbell: $496K
No Doc Holiday?
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