From the "Cut out" front page article:

"We understand that Duke cannot possibly offer him as much money as Tennessee can."

This is simply an excuse to not hire the best, and is completely false.

Tennessee endowment: $710 million
Duke endowment: $4.9 BILLION

Highest head football coach salary: ~$5 million
Tennessee head football coach salary: $2 million
Duke head football coach salary: $1.5 million

So for $3.5 million, Duke could be the highest-paying football program in the nation.

That is .071 percent of the annual endowment, to hire the very best coach and potentially become a very good program.

The endowment would go from $4,900,000,000 to $4,896,500,000, a simple rounding error.

Is $3.5 million an investment worth making to bring in an incredible coach and the money that would come along with that? A no-brainer.

Saying things like "no way can duke offer as much money as school X" is simply false. For the absurd amount of money put into facilities (which is necessary, no doubt), for much less we could offer someone like Pete Carroll Seahawks-level money ($7 mill) to come to Durham. Why not?

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This was just an aside; I am completely stoked that Cut is staying in Durham. We should pay the man.