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[QUOTE="Archbold44, post: 5513180, member: 10528"]
Have we ever lost a head coach to another college program?  Marrone--NFL, Dick Mac--NFL.  Folks either get fired here or they go pro.  If you want to stay at the top of the football tier system, you better pay up for it.  If that changes, then the clear message is that we are a second tier school.  No ACC/B12 school can take that risk.  Better to be Oklahoma State and buyout your loser coach than let him walk to a bigger program right now.

Everyone bellyaches about the ACC/B12 accepting fewer autobids that the SEC/B10... but if the ACC/B12 schools are not going to pay their coaches... then that is a tacit admission of second class citizenship.  (BTW, the ACC/B12 allowed the B1G/SEC to decide the playoff system--that was a bigger concession of being second tier than anything the B1G/SEC decide moving forward).

If SU pays big money and it becomes a $30M mistake (adding $30M over next 5 years), it is just money. Raise tuition by an extra $250 per semester for the next 4 years to get it back.  $500 times 15,000 students times 4 years = $30M.   Heck, raise it $1,000 and pay for the next coach too.
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