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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 2583041, member: 7492"] On the surface, I agree with you that Holly will not be fired. I also agree with you that the school does only primarily care about 2 Men's sports-Football and Basketball as that is where their revenue comes from. Due to Title IX, all women's sports must have equal scholarship/participation opportunities and that results in a drain on the budget due to none of these sports making money. Money at Tennessee is an issue due to the coaches they have fired since 2013-Dooley $5 mil, Donnie Tyndall-Unkn, AD John Currie-$5.1 mil, Butch Jones-$13.1 plus the Schiano lawsuit, and the payouts due to the lawsuits from the merger of the two athletic departments that laid-off more of the Women's AD than men's. However, I think you have [B]grossly overstated[/B] that she is paid 1/3 of Major D1 schools salaries. My fairly detailed review of the public institutions show that yes, the ones you mention do get paid the numbers you list. They also have significant Head Coaching experience and strong national success-even McGuff was a head coach as Wash before getting paid handsomely at OSU. The others have won at least one title or more. With most schools being public institutions, they must list salaries. In some cases, additional income from media rights comes into play-Geno, Dawn, Muffet all get half their income from these rights. Pat's salary should not even be a question given her success at the program. Using that logic you are saying whoever succeeds Geno should get $2.4 mil+? Of course not, so why mention it? Let's look at the Big10-Indiana, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin all who recently hired new coaches and published their contracts- $300k to $675k for these coaches, all who had prior success as a Head Coach in basketball prior to going to these schools. What HC experience did Holly have? Zero. Yet, she is getting paid quite handsomely. McGuff is the highest paid Big10 coach. Even the best coach in the conference, Brenda Frese, only has a base of $382,000. She does get some additional non-public money, though it does not say how much. Teri Moren at Indiana is getting $300k and that's after successful stints at Indiana State and elsewhere. She does not have more than $100k in other income. In the SEC Pingeton gets $300k, Fargas $700k base plus incentives to $1.2mil, Vic gets $662k, Ole Miss Insell's gets $475k, and Joni Taylor at Georgia is at $575k. I could go on and on but you get the gist. As a P5 Coach, she is paid in the upper half of those salaries and that is significantly higher than the mid-majors and lower D1 coaches. She is in the upper third of salaries. I do agree her coaching doesn't warrant the salary though. Best scenario is for her to resign and take on an emeritus role due to her LadyVol connections. I am financial analyst by profession and irritates the hell out of me when people grossly overstate facts and opinions on money, budgets and revenue. You have done the same here. Now the reality check for you-Tennessee is 21-5, with wins over Texas, Ok St, Stanford and SC. You continue to recruit elite talent. You don't fire a coach for that. WCBB has done quite nicely the last 10 years without Tenn being in the final four so you are mistaken. For evidence, take a look at the Men's history-UCLA is irrelevant as a former blue blood, yet that sport thrives. Plus, I do enjoy the theater that is provided over at VolNation with Holly as coach. It would be a shame if Phil fires her and denies us that...:rolleyes: [/QUOTE]

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