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Head coach salary inflation is insane. Maybe the SEC can keep up with it. I just don't know about the rest of college football. That puts schools like UNT in a tough spot. There's a mentality of keeping up with the Jones' in order to get the best coaching staff available, and that's completely understandable. But we start getting into $1.5 million territory for a head coach on a CUSA revenue load, and it becomes unsustainable. It's almost like a housing bubble, but in college sports.

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Head coach salary inflation is insane. Maybe the SEC can keep up with it. I just don't know about the rest of college football. That puts schools like UNT in a tough spot. There's a mentality of keeping up with the Jones' in order to get the best coaching staff available, and that's completely understandable. But we start getting into $1.5 million territory for a head coach on a CUSA revenue load, and it becomes unsustainable. It's almost like a housing bubble, but in college sports.

That's the same type of "fear" mentality that got us stuck with Dodge for four disasterous years.

You have to pay a FAIR wage. UNT has the resources to do this. We aren't hampered by being part of the UT system. If the market says you are at the bottom of wages in the conference you HAVE to correct that or it will correct itself.

This business about coaching salaries being out of control is an excuse. If the market says that they should be paid at a certain level you have to take that into account. I understand that attendance plays a part in the revenue picture but for goodness sakes we have had a decade of futility and it's going to take some investment to overcome that hurdle.

We have a good thing going with Mac and his assistants. Let's not blow this momentum lets do the right thing and get these contracts renegotiated. I'm not saying we should be at the top of C-USA but certainly higher than MUTS and in the top quarter.

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That's the same type of "fear" mentality that got us stuck with Dodge for four disasterous years.

You have to pay a FAIR wage. UNT has the resources to do this. We aren't hampered by being part of the UT system. If the market says you are at the bottom of wages in the conference you HAVE to correct that or it will correct itself.

This business about coaching salaries being out of control is an excuse. If the market says that they should be paid at a certain level you have to take that into account. I understand that attendance plays a part in the revenue picture but for goodness sakes we have had a decade of futility and it's going to take some investment to overcome that hurdle.

We have a good thing going with Mac and his assistants. Let's not blow this momentum lets do the right thing and get these contracts renegotiated. I'm not saying we should be at the top of C-USA but certainly higher than MUTS and in the top quarter.

Yeah, I don't so much mean what I said in the context of UNT alone, but rather the market itself seems to be approaching bubble status. You speak of fear. People bought tech stocks at 100:1 EPS in the late 90s out of fear. People took out unwise ARMs in the oughts to purchase overpriced McMansions (often devoid of furniture inside) out of fear. Schools appear that they may be paying seven figure coaching salaries out of fear.

I'm glad that UNT is getting up to mid-range in what it pays. I certainly would never advocate a bottom of the barrel $250K Dodge type hire ever, ever again.

But I could be wrong. Maybe the potential upside for conference television deal revenue is limitless. Maybe the sports books can encourage fans to actually watch 130 teams play every week. I mean, hell, the NFL has pulled it off to the extent that people are paying damn near stadium ticket prices to get games on their TVs at home. If college can do the same, top to bottom, Alabama to Georgia State, then hell yes, let's break out the checkbooks across the board. But before that happens, let's not get stupid and bet the farm on speculation.

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