Raise Time

I disagree. But let's say I'll concede the point, it's still a dumb response.

 

No, it means Tennessee is willing to pay a mediocre coach ridiculous sums of money on the off chance he's able to beat every team in the east once

 

How much were Malzahn's or Freeze's first contracts?

I'm not comparing them now, but they had done next to nothing when they were hired.

 

Weird how that logic doesn't ever get put up for anything other than people.

 

I think Malzahn's was comparable to Jones', but I'm talking about the raises. Butch having the same starting salary relative to those guys isn't insane. Him making as much as them after accomplishing nothing is.

 

His current terms. It's criminal how much he's making.

From last December:

http://espn.go.com/college-football...rs-coach-butch-jones-includes-buyout-increase

 

I said it before, a billion a year for life is where we're head with this como mierda

 

$4.3 million would put him roughly tied for 3rd (at least currently) with Miles and Freeze. For winning nothing.

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/

 

All you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it, if it comes to fruition. And I will happily do something else on my Saturdays.

And it isn't the raise that irks me, it is the damn extension. It makes it so he cannot be fired.

 

Even with his current contract, we can't afford to fire him.

I really think the pressure is going to get to him, and he'll leave. At least that's what I keep telling myself.

 

Driven by a drunken Butch.

 

Not really, UT is just doing the most UT thing they can possibly do. Give him the raise and the extension and still fire him.

We're just ensuring that we can't afford to pay the guy that follows him, that's all.

 

This is the part that gets me.

 

That is what gets me. Why does any coach need or deserve a fricking eight year contract?

 

Time to get those alt teams lined up.

 

Jesus flippin Christ, Norris, don't you know it takes 6-7 years to build a good program in the SEC

 

0-6 vs our biggest rivals

 

Arms race, I guess. Didn't any administrators learn something from Charlie Weiss?

 

I talked to some other SEC coaches. They said it takes as long as it needs to, at Tennessee. They said we were impatient.

 

Thank goodness. Bama was this close to stealing him away from us.