Originally, this was going to be a post about how South Carolina was going the frugal route with its new coaching staff, presumably to offset Boom’s enormous buyout. Here’s what the numbers there look like:
Offensive coordinator/QB coach Mike Bobo: 2 years/$1.2 per year
Offensive line coach Will Friend: 2 years/$700,000 per year
Tight ends coach Erik Kimrey: 2 years/$200,000 per year
Running backs coach Des Kitchings: 2 years/$300,000 per year
Special teams coordinator Pete Lembo: 3 years/$450,000 per year
Linebackers coach Mike Peterson: 2 years/$300,000 per year
Defensive line coach Tracy Rocker: 2 years/$525,000 per year
Wide receivers coach Justin Stepp: 2 years/$460,000 per year
Plus, “Beamer had his contract approved by the Board of Trustees officially on December 15 and will make $2.75 million per year each year over the life of the five-year deal.”
They’ve still got a defensive coordinator and strength/conditioning coach to hire, but you get the drift.
Anyway, this post took an abrupt turn when I saw this:
Yep, you read that right. Friend took a hundred thousand dollar pay cut to get away from Jeremy Pruitt. Talk about your vote of confidence. Things must be going great in Knoxville these days.
Anybody got a bag of popcorn to spare?
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UPDATE: Probably just a coincidence…
The University of Tennessee has hired two Overland Park, Kansas-based attorneys to assist its internal investigation into whether the Vols football program committed NCAA rules violations, Knox News has learned.
Lawyers Mike Glazier and Kyle Skillman will work alongside the university. Glazier is well-known for his work on investigations involving college athletics.
The Vols certainly know that.
Glazier, who worked seven years on the NCAA’s enforcement staff, has represented universities in scores of NCAA cases since the 1980s. He has worked with UT previously.
Glazier assisted the university more than a decade ago during the NCAA’s probe of the athletic department that led to the 2011 firing of men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl.
Yeah, this is going to end well.
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UPDATE #2: LOL.