Originally Posted by
budwom
I spent all of 60 seconds looking to support my thesis, and found that for example, Miami leads the MAC this year in football standings (and as many know, the MAC has been known as a great conference for up and coming coaches), and their coach is paid $533k. I would imagine a Duke offer at 2.67 million (if they were to match Cut's present salary) would get his attention at the very least...the next ranked team's coach in the MAC gets $600k...
No, we're not getting Knute Rockne or Urban Meyer (thankfully), but we'll get plenty of interest from up and coming coaches...and yes, the Duke job, if they succeed, will be a stepping stone, that's to be expected and not an especially bad thing.
We managed to endure stepping stone Spurrier just fine...