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Message: [QUOTE="cuseinchina, post: 864797, member: 3079"] Showing respect and commitment to a coach will engender a greater degree of loyalty than will paying conference low salaries and not giving money to reward assistants. What that loyalty translates to depends on the personality of the coach in question, their background, and their ability to have a long view when it comes to their careers. For some guys loyalty means they might say thank you on the way out as they jump for more money or prestige. I think for a guy like Shafer it means getting the program to near its long-term peak potential and then jumping only when something really good comes up in the Midwest. Without support from the AD his loyalty may only last until a bad Big10 job offer comes up. Again purely conjecture but to just say there is no point in trying to build loyalty and commitment seems to be even more negative than can be justified by the evidence. [/QUOTE]