Bielema this morning on Mike and Mike

[upperdeck]

interesting to hear him discuss why he moved on. Beyond the amazing facilities in the SEC. He kept saying how great the support was at Wisc.

Really sounded like it came down to two things..

the SEC is a bigger challenge, he has won the b10 3 times to get to the rose bowl and that gets him nothing in the bigger picture.. he can have one loss teams in the SEC and still have a shot at the new playoff system. that would never happen in the current b10.

Money seemed like the huge issue. he was capped at 300K for his coordinators, he got a minimal raise but he can now spend 1-1.5 on his coordinators and more for his other coaches. 2 million+ more to spend on staff and he was tired of coaches getting offers and moving on losing 4-6 coaches a year.

Got me to wondering how much will our costs have to go up to keep staff and play with the bigger boys in the ACC and how much maryland/rutgers will have to cough up to compete for staff in the Big 10.

 

[Orijinal]

Interesting. Fair enough

 

[Scooch]

I heard him too and it really was stunning to hear the head coach of a factory like Wisconsin to be griping about how he couldn't pay his assistants.

Maybe there's something unique to UW that doesn't affect Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska, etc. But if one of the flagship programs of the Big Ten can't pony up to pay it's top assistants that what in the holy hell is all this realignment and network-launching about?!

 

[orangepassion]

I heard him too and it really was stunning to hear the head coach of a factory like Wisconsin to be griping about how he couldn't pay his assistants.

Maybe there's something unique to UW that doesn't affect Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska, etc. But if one of the flagship programs of the Big Ten can't pony up to pay it's top assistants that what in the holy hell is all this realignment and network-launching about?!

What he doesn't realize is that with Rutgers coming in, now the money's really going to start coming in

 

[Chip]

I heard him too and it really was stunning to hear the head coach of a factory like Wisconsin to be griping about how he couldn't pay his assistants.

Maybe there's something unique to UW that doesn't affect Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska, etc. But if one of the flagship programs of the Big Ten can't pony up to pay it's top assistants that what in the holy hell is all this realignment and network-launching about?!

First question you ask as a Wisconsin fan is: so...um...what exactly are you doing with all that money that we keep hearing you are making? Given that we're supposedly the richest conference in the universe and we consistently sell out our 80k capacity stadium.

 

[OrangeMojo]

interesting to hear him discuss why he moved on. Beyond the amazing facilities in the SEC. He kept saying how great the support was at Wisc.

Really sounded like it came down to two things..

the SEC is a bigger challenge, he has won the b10 3 times to get to the rose bowl and that gets him nothing in the bigger picture.. he can have one loss teams in the SEC and still have a shot at the new playoff system. that would never happen in the current b10.

Money seemed like the huge issue. he was capped at 300K for his coordinators, he got a minimal raise but he can now spend 1-1.5 on his coordinators and more for his other coaches. 2 million+ more to spend on staff and he was tired of coaches getting offers and moving on losing 4-6 coaches a year.

Got me to wondering how much will our costs have to go up to keep staff and play with the bigger boys in the ACC and how much maryland/rutgers will have to cough up to compete for staff in the Big 10.

would hope that the school has a portion of the increased ACC revenue earmarked to cover increased coaching salaries

the ROI on paying and retaining top performing assistant coaches seems very high and hopefully is a no-brainer for the school as this transition takes place

 

[Scooch]

First question you ask as a Wisconsin fan is: so...um...what exactly are you doing with all that money that we keep hearing you are making? Given that we're supposedly the richest conference in the universe and we consistently sell out our 80k capacity stadium.

Exactly.

The mismanagement of money might end up being a downfall of college athletics. At some point someone is going to crack the code on investigating this and getting the public riled up about it.

 

[longtimefan]

Exactly.

The mismanagement of money might end up being a downfall of college athletics. At some point someone is going to crack the code on investigating this and getting the public riled up about it.

Would be nice if the "code" were cracked.

But, these colleges are expert at creative accounting. Unless and until the state auditors around the country get serious about how the ol' U is keeping its books, the public will continue to be kept in the dark. And in states like, oh, say Alabama and Oklahoma that is unlikely to happen, as the football program tail wags the state dog.

 

[Rocco]

Money seemed like the huge issue. he was capped at 300K for his coordinators, he got a minimal raise but he can now spend 1-1.5 on his coordinators and more for his other coaches. 2 million+ more to spend on staff and he was tired of coaches getting offers and moving on losing 4-6 coaches a year.

Sickening that DM makes the same as Ark's future OC. We needed Al Davis to endow the SU football coaches' salaries. Subsidize an additional $2 mil/year to spend on salaries, to supplement their income from the school.

 

[cuserulesall]

Sickening that DM makes the same as Ark's future OC. We needed Al Davis to endow the SU football coaches' salaries. Subsidize an additional $2 mil/year to spend on salaries, to supplement their income from the school.

That might be kinda hard . Mr. Al Davis is dead .

 

[Rocco]

That might be kinda hard . Mr. Al Davis is dead .

Why I said needed.

 

[cuserulesall]

Why I said needed.

Gottcha Bro , didn't see the ed .