Okay, now this makes sense. No way we get a new coach with half the money of the current coach. For all those who do not believe that the University is either in financial trouble OR has no desire to support athletics should step back and rethink their position before we get into the discussion again.
Perhaps before saying that you should go look at the actual salaries, there is a reason they are giving percentages and not actual dollars.
We were paying Monty about 1.8m so do the math and that's a million dollars a year now.
Here is a list of coaching salaries from the MW which is the closest league to us. We can't afford a p5 coach at that 1m but we can afford pretty much anyone else:
SDSU - 1.05m
Utah State - 1.0m
San Jose St - 850k
Hawaii - 800k (Todd Graham)
New Mexico - 700k
Nevada - 650k
AFA is rumored to be right a 1m
You can comb through the Sunbelt, CUSA, the MAC and find that almost every head coach makes less than what we will pay Monty for.
This sort of slight of hand by our administration, the this is the best we can get for what we give has been going on for a while and not just in athletics. We have a serious leadership problem at this University where several people are just happy to cash checks and blow smoke.
I finally understand where Largent is coming from. I am done with this school. I love it, but it has to learn to love itself and right now no one cares from academics to athletics.