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[QUOTE="kingtidge, post: 5689320, member: 994"]
Bingo.

The time to get Hodgson "on the cheap" was when USF did/last year... He's won their league this year and is now a quickly rising star/hot commodity... We'll need to pay to get him now.

The Cuse job may be a sweetener for him so we might be able to say, get him for a quarter mil lower than his best competing offer, but it's not gonna be a $1 or 2mil discount because he "wants" the cuse job.

So yeah...

To get Hodg:
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[*]Red's buyout (whatever that is??)
+
[*]Hodg's Buyout ($2mill to USF)
+
[*]Hodg's salary ($3-3.5 mill/year??)
+
[*]Assistants salaries
+
[*]Competitive NIL bag
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Not sure on last 2, but the NIL bag will need to be in the realm of the competitor offerings also trying to hire him...

Anyways, all this is gonna add up fast... and to a large number for a rising star HC like Hodg...

I know many have said we have the new coach hire finances locked down and ready... I just fear our total in planned outlay falls short of what's needed now to get a coach like Hodg... Plus things for us are VERY fluid at the moment... What if Lyke comes in as AD and immediately slashes the finances for the hire in half or something, and we're immediately fishing in the Langel pool of lower tier mid-major hires??... or just opt to hire Hop on the cheap with whatever NIL bag Melo+friends can scrape together??... It would also explain why some of you ITKs are hearing lesser/tertiary tier coach names being considered that may be more underwhelming/cheaper as contingencies??

We have a lot balls in the air right now and things are fluid and could change really fast.
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