2024 Coaching Carousel gets an early start…

[Tdaley]

This is crazy.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Purple Stein]

Tech has been good offensively this year but not stellar in his other two years. What's the deal with this hire? Is he a good recruiter?

 

[Drew]

 

[CCSUblue]

Damn I really hope this works out for him.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Purple Stein]

He is a great coach. Great get for UMass, good for Northeast football.

All that said -- I hope he really understands what he's getting into before he signs on that dotted line.

 

[huskymedic]

He is a great coach. Great get for UMass, good for Northeast football.

All that said -- I hope he really understands what he's getting into before he signs on that dotted line.

NIL#'s/Salary Pool

 

[hardcorehusky]

NIL#'s/Salary Pool

Those numbers are much more aggressive than UMass has ever been (coaching pool) and a steep jump in NIL. Wonder why they didn't give Don Brown the chance to run with those numbers.

 

[Kolumbo]

Joe Harasymiak is only 38. From Jersey, played at Springfield College, coached at Maine, Minnesota, Rutgers. He was at Maine when UMass was in the MAC. I'm sure he is very familiar with UMass and the Northeast. Sounds like a great opportunity as they head back to the MAC.

 

[Skies2018]

NIL#'s/Salary Pool

How do we compare? Does anyone know?

 

[UConnJim]

How do we compare? Does anyone know?

If the tweet is correct, and it may include all coaching salaries and/or all support staff, the UMass assistant coaches salary pool will be above UConn's and close to the highest in the G5 and over double the MAC average. In 2023, UConn's assistant coaches pool was ~$1.9 million. With Mora's salary included, UConn's football coaching salary pool is close to $3.7 million.

Seeing UMass' miscommunication over the past couple of weeks, I would be skeptical of Thamel's numbers.

 

[Skies2018]

If the tweet is correct, and it may include all coaching salaries and/or all support staff, the UMass assistant coaches salary pool will be above UConn's and close to the highest in the G5 and over double the MAC average. In 2023, UConn's assistant coaches pool was ~$1.9 million. With Mora's salary included, UConn's football coaching salary pool is close to $3.7 million.

That would be crazy. Do we know how our NIL compares?

 

[UConnJim]

That would be crazy. Do we know how our NIL compares?

Going forward, the issue is not NIL but revenue sharing as revenue sharing should be bigger than NIL for most schools and we don't know UConn's revenue share plan.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Purple Stein]

FWIW, Nick Charlton was Harasymiak's OC when Maine went to the semifinals a few years ago. Wouldn't be surprised to find our old friend in red and white next year.

 

[DoctorWho85]

Fantastic hire for UMass. Had stellar stint at Maine, brings New England experiecne and connections. Should do very well with UMass in the MAC.

 

[Bongo Fury]

With the move to MAC and increased investment, looks like new chancellor wants to win with football. Former chancellor was indifferent.

 

[DoctorWho85]

With the move to MAC and increased investment, looks like new chancellor wants to win with football. Former chancellor was indifferent.

Amherst campus is so beautiful too. It can be a real selling point. Was for me when I was applying to grad schools.

 

[UCONNJACK]

Amherst campus is so beautiful too. It can be a real selling point. Was for me when I was applying to grad schools.

Do you know that UMass Amherst is consistently rated one of most ugliest college campuses.​

13. University of Massachusetts Amherst​

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Location: Amherst, Mass.

Year Built: 1970 (Founded: 1863)

Key Architects: Various, including Marcel Breuer, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Kevin Roche, Edward Durell Stone, and Gordon Bunshaft.







Architectural criticism is nothing new to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 1974, the Boston Globe's architecture critic, Robert Campbell, called the campus "a jumble of unrelated personal monuments that look more like a world's fair grounds than a campus." We guess that's one way to say "disjointed," but the school is still made up of a variety of concert buildings, dark subterranean spaces, and clinical architecture, so Campbell may not have been far off.

 

[Rich]

UCF has 'reportedly' reached out to Lincoln Riley to gauge his interest in their vacant head coaching position.

If USC fired Riley today, it's rumored (USC doesn't report publicly) that his buyout is around 90MM.....however I don't for a second doubt that USC's new president and AD would LOVE to get out from under his contract. I'd be curious how much UCF would have to pick up for them to pull the trigger.....maybe half? 60%?

Riley has almost single handedly annihilated SC's local recruiting presence and so far has been unable to make good on his strategy of recruiting within the SEC/B10/ACC footprint. He's also done a terrible job coaching the team now that he doesn't have Williams and Addison to bail him out. Plus, I don't think he anticipated that he'd be competing in the Big 10 when he signed and is now quite frankly in way over his head. I'd think that if a settlement could be worked out he would not mind saying 'peace' and hopping on the next flight to Florida or wherever.

SC has a ready made replacement on staff in their DC D'Anton Lynn who would probably at least do a better job recruiting as he is sui generis Southern California.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Fantastic hire for UMass.

Preference was for Harasymiak to stay away, but good for New England college football.

 

[CCSUblue]

Fresno State going with Matt Entz for whomever was asking about NDSU coaches earlier.

 

[DoctorWho85]

Fresno State going with Matt Entz for whomever was asking about NDSU coaches earlier.

NDSU fans are crazy happy Entz left especially after the blow loss to UND last year

 

[Tex-Lager93]

Wow. Pretty solid hires by both Temple and UMass - not what I was hoping for but good for NE football.