Fair enough. I did not keep up with this thread early in its life. That CGC thread was the product of more than two. Still 365 pages is quite a lot more than 311. Maybe we can debate the record here long enough to change the outcome!!!
Maybe in the basketball forum? <running and ducking>
Chip Long?
So which is the longest if that’s second?
I think with the few brain cells left to me, that the multiple "Fire CGC" threads that were eventually combined into one is the record holder with this one being second. (I think, therefore I am not a DWAG) with apologies to Rene Descartes.
I thougth it was always fire Coach Danny Hall? He is the go to
As @Augusta_Jacket pointed out, the pay is what the step up is. Freeze was making close to 5 mil a year. Chadwell’s guaranteed salary is 850k this year (he does get heavily incentivized to win, but even with bowl win, champ win and top 25 finish he’ll end up less than we pie Collins if my math was right).
It’s hard to tell how much money they have because they’re private. They’ve spent more on facilities lately than any of the G5 schools in their conference and were spending more on Freeze than a number of P5 schools were spending on their coach. Auburn did lure Freeze away from Liberty, with both a raise and a ticket back to the SEC, which tells you an upper-tier and well-funded SEC school has more firepower than Liberty.
At the time that Liberty gave him that new contract I wondered if part of it was Freeze doing Liberty a solid by agreeing to a huge buyout, knowing that he was in the running for a bigger gig and wanting to payback Liberty for giving him a chance at coaching redemption. Just a speculation. But surely both he and Liberty knew that he was going to take a big gig somewhere soon.
They also sponsor the Hendrick Motorsports car # 24 in NASCAR. They are spending money on sports activities for sure. I guess they take the "football (and maybe all sports) is the front porch of the university" seriously.
i’m curious to see if they can recruit with the big boys as the continue to build the program. i have a hard time thinking that a prospective 4* kind of player would willingly choose to spend time there when they could easily go have fun at a p5 school and not deal with all those archaic rules.
Reminds me a little bit like Oral Roberts did in basketball several years ago. It's a good way to get some national recognition. That school has taken over Lynchburg VA. They took a chance on Frieze(sp?) and it worked for them.
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