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[QUOTE="cuseinchina, post: 864732, member: 3079"]
We hired internally on the cheap a guy with no head coaching experience.  I thought at the time it was the right hire and continue to think so.   Given the low starting point, if you like what you see in year one and see potential for continued improvement, then you bump the guy up to something above bargain basement - just discount or value.   Show him some support so he feels like the school and the AD are behind him.   It's not about giving him a $500k raise and locking him down, it's about giving him $100k and saying look we are glad we made this decision to go with you - you can also bump up the incentives and give him a little extra money for assistants.   You look at a long-term significant bump after a few more years.   Investing a little early goes a long way towards building loyalty and good will.   A guy like Shafer who has been in some bad situations is going to appreciate being in a good job with AD support and while he may not be an alum seems like he'd be significantly less likely to quit before the job was done than marrone proved to be. If dealt with properly I don't think he leaves until he has SU football brushing up on top 25 consistently.  That is pure conjecture have nothing really to back it up.

btw- wouldn't surprise me if he promises to make his OC the successor if they are able to build this over the next couple years - they will need some hook to keep MacDonald around as looking at the recruits we could have a pretty exciting offense a couple years from now.
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