And spare me the whole - money grows on trees, billionaires in Las Vegas will cough up the money, etc, etc, etc. The mighty chest puffing and overuse of exclamation points doesn’t make things happen just because you demand it.
I believe the buyout would cost UNLV around 1.25M. If you go for a coach that is coaching, like Wade, for instance. You need to pay that buyout. So it might take 3-4M just for the initial transaction of switching coaches.
Then you are talking a new contract, let’s put it at 2M per year because we are sick of not competing.
So that might be 5-6M for year one.
If it was just contract at 2M … I think that gets done. I am concerned with the rest of the money though.
Sure, hit up the mega boosters that have money to burn …. Except we did, heavily …. For football. And they’ve yet to see any ROI in spite of the feel good vibe of the Mullen hire.
Pretty much from A to Z, everyone is in agreement with what needs to be done, the problem is a plan to execute and the resources to make it happen. It’s NEVER a good thing for anyone when a coach keeps his job only because you can’t afford to fire him. Any decent relationships will sour. And nobody wants you to “turn it around”, they just want you out. Tough working conditions.
Not saying it won’t happen, I think it will, there will be a turnover in coaching staff. But this is not cut and dry. A product of not being ins power conference is these moves aren’t easy - the decisions are, the resources aren’t. We really went as all in as we could with football and there’s not a lot left.
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