Coaching Carousel 9 - People die climbing mountains

[ESPNjacket]

Our problem is that we throw piles of money at football, renovations, and coach buyouts. UConn almost definitely has a higher hoops budget than us considering Hurley makes 4x what CDS does and Auriemma makes over 3x what Nell does.

Don't get me wrong - I love the football team and I'm probably biased because I'm a bigger hoops fan but men's basketball with a freshly renovated arena in the heart of Atlanta has no reason not to be a beacon of success. I've been flying the "Georgia Tech is a basketball school" flag for a long time, begging others to hop on board, but old traditions/history with the 4 national championships in football die hard.

I don't agree. Our problem is making bad decisions that are usually motivated by being cheap with the excuse that we are poor. We aren't poor. We think poorly and act poorly.

I do think J Batt is working to remove this mindset.

 

[cpf2001]

The Gailey, Hewitt, and early Johnson staffs were all competitive pay-wise. Tenuta was one of the highes paid assistants in the country; Johnson one of the highest paid coaches in the conference IIRC for a minute there.

But when others started spending more GT didn’t really even try to keep up, but blamed things like the Hewitt buyout (which coach salary inflation made less relevant anyway) and pivoted to the “Johnson is the do more with less option” line until GT was so far behind the next coaches actually had to be bargain-bin…

Looks like now Batt is trying to be competitive again instead of being content with selling excuses.

 

[TooTall]

Winning matters.

UCONN Men-6 Nattys...all since 1999
UCONN Women-11 NATTYS w/23 total Final Fours....all since 1991.

Rich or poor. Winning always matters..


I did make the case for the ACC to add UCONN on this site several years ago because of their Blue Blood Basketball teams and no one agreed because of their middling football program. Oh well.

 

[78pike]

I’m not an LA person—it’s not a place I feel at home—but with taxes and everything $9 million per year nets you a nice lifestyle there.

The job is a grind, but possibly less of a grind than a P6 job. He might not get a huge chance to enjoy his job. Plus, the Laker situation is especially a grind for a coach (unless you’re Phil Jackson and you have just the right people on your team)

The offer was life changing money for all but a few people. Maybe Hurley isn’t one of them. Plus, if you’re set for life, the motivation to be more set for life may not be worth it.

But how does that lifestyle change when the money goes down to less than $4.5 million per year. I saw a chart that listed all of the federal, state and local taxes he would be subjected to by living in LA. It said that a whopping 52% would go to taxes. That changes the math a bit. He would be better off financially coaching the Heat or Magic where the state of Florida has no state taxes (not that he would ever want to coach them, just saying).

 

[Peacone36]

You have to fight your way into and around Bar Harbor to enjoy the Terrace Grille. It's not worth it. Especially since Young's in Belfast has better lobster rolls and far better atmosphere. Sitting on the dock and eating lobster with juice dripping off your elbows is the best experience in Maine.

No lies but you gotta back out Route 1 which is rarely fun. Also, Route 1 has about four construction sites on it right now including the entire town of Searsport. Food for thought.

 

[orientalnc]

No lies but you gotta back out Route 1 which is rarely fun. Also, Route 1 has about four construction sites on it right now including the entire town of Searsport. Food for thought.

Thanks. IIRC Young's is between Belfast and Searsport.

 

[Peacone36]

Thanks. IIRC Young's is between Belfast and Searsport.

Yup hang a left right before the Belfast bridge

 

[forensicbuzz]

Damn Downeasters!

 

[Northeast Stinger]

Winning matters.

UCONN Men-6 Nattys...all since 1999
UCONN Women-11 NATTYS w/23 total Final Fours....all since 1991.

Rich or poor. Winning always matters..


I did make the case for the ACC to add UCONN on this site several years ago because of their Blue Blood Basketball teams and no one agreed because of their middling football program. Oh well.

Perhaps you were right.

But.

The problem is that you can add a blue blood and once they land in your conference their blood ain’t so blue anymore. Syracuse and Louisville were once basketball blue bloods but not so much now. Miami was a football blue blood at one point but not much of one since joining the conference.

UConn might have been an excellent choice but you would have been putting all your eggs in one basket counting on the basketball program. They didn’t bring anything else to the table, not academics and certainly not football. If their basketball program had regressed it would not have been a great addition.

 

[forensicbuzz]

All good.

 

[MidtownJacket]

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Thanks!

Ps..

 

[ThatGuy]

Our problem is that we throw piles of money at football, renovations, and coach buyouts. UConn almost definitely has a higher hoops budget than us considering Hurley makes 4x what CDS does and Auriemma makes over 3x what Nell does.

Don't get me wrong - I love the football team and I'm probably biased because I'm a bigger hoops fan but men's basketball with a freshly renovated arena in the heart of Atlanta has no reason not to be a beacon of success. I've been flying the "Georgia Tech is a basketball school" flag for a long time, begging others to hop on board, but old traditions/history with the 4 national championships in football die hard.