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He gets more grief than he deserves he has turned the program around a lot, we are better than when he got here, he brings in good recruits, sends players to the NFL, graduates players, more fans in the seats, more money for IPTAY, better facilities, and we beat the tar out of our rival 4 out of 5. Most people would love a coach to do all that. If he had won just 1 more game either of the last 2 years there wouldnt even be any discussion.
LOL, more Tammy!!!!
thats to bad for LOWF huh Andy???seriously though, like I said I am not a huge tommy fan, but this would have been a bad time for him to leave the program.......
we'll give him atleast one more year before he's back on the hot seat
A little snippet in the paper this morning tying Grobe to Arkansas?
SEC would be better to have him... he has coaching talent without a doubt. Would be sad for Wake though.
SEC would be better to have him... he has coaching talent without a doubt. Would be sad for Wake though.
Yeah, this was all the rage yesterday in the WFU community.
Hopefully it is just rumor #84375092835908748234902349.
He was gone to Nebraska, gone to Michigan, maybe headed to LSU with Les talking to Michigan and now this...
I certainly am not in the know but according to everything he has said, I'd be surprised if it were true.
Probably know something definite, one way or another, by the end of today...
In this day and age, you pretty much hit the nail on the head Richard.
Rumor has it that the proposed comp. plan is over 2x of his current pay at Wake.
All hail the almighty dollar!!
Same thing you guys just went through a few days ago...
Rumor has it that the proposed comp. plan is over 2x of his current pay at Wake.
All hail the almighty dollar!!
Same thing you guys just went through a few days ago...
Yup, they offered Bowden way more, supposedly, and we matched the low end plus gave raises to every assistant. We matched so he stayed time to see if Wake will do the same or if he'll even give them the chance.
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At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Clemson Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips said that the deal runs through the 2014 season and would put Bowden's pay in the upper third of coaches in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Phillips added that the contract includes "very strong performance incentives" and that he believes the deal represents the best chance for the Tigers to achieve their goal of winning a championship, a goal that Bowden also said he expects to achieve.
Terms of the contract were not released, but Clemson officials said that the details would be announced after the contract is approved by the University's Board of Trustees.
Bowden told his coaching staff Tuesday morning that he would be staying with the Tigers, turning down an offer to take over at Arkansas.
"I'm very appreciative and excited about the extension," Bowden said at the news conference. "I fully intended when we came here nine years ago that we would make this our last stop."
WYFF News 4 Sports Director Geoff Hart reported that Bowden talked with Arkansas officials earlier Tuesday morning and then met with his Clemson staff to tell them he would not be leaving.
Clemson University's board of trustees met Tuesday morning to discuss what a news release called an unspecified "personnel matter."
The news release did not mention Bowden by name.
ESPN.com reported Tuesday morning that Arkansas had focused its coaching search on Bowden and was prepared to offer him a contract that would pay him in excess of $2 million per year.
According to ESPN, Phillips was in New York on Monday but was prepared to return to the Upstate to meet with Bowden on Tuesday morning.
According to several published reports, Clemson had offered Bowden a two-year extension to his current contract and a raise that would increase his total pay to about $1.6 million.
Bowden and new Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long are longtime friends and worked together on the football coaching staff at Duke.
Bowden has a 69-41 record in nine seasons at Clemson.
The Arkansas job became vacant when the Razorbacks' Houston Nutt quit last month and took the vacant jobat Mississippi.
Arkansas originally focused its coaching search on Auburn's Tommy Tuberville, whose team faces Clemson in the Peach Bowl on Dec. 31.
Clemson is 9-3 and won five of its final six games this season. The Peach Bowl invitation was the 11th straight year a team Bowden coached has been eligible for a postseason game.
Bowden said that he has more talent returning for next season than at any time in his coaching career.
Phillips added that the contract includes "very strong performance incentives" and that he believes the deal represents the best chance for the Tigers to achieve their goal of winning a championship, a goal that Bowden also said he expects to achieve.
Terms of the contract were not released, but Clemson officials said that the details would be announced after the contract is approved by the University's Board of Trustees.
Bowden told his coaching staff Tuesday morning that he would be staying with the Tigers, turning down an offer to take over at Arkansas.
"I'm very appreciative and excited about the extension," Bowden said at the news conference. "I fully intended when we came here nine years ago that we would make this our last stop."
WYFF News 4 Sports Director Geoff Hart reported that Bowden talked with Arkansas officials earlier Tuesday morning and then met with his Clemson staff to tell them he would not be leaving.
Clemson University's board of trustees met Tuesday morning to discuss what a news release called an unspecified "personnel matter."
The news release did not mention Bowden by name.
ESPN.com reported Tuesday morning that Arkansas had focused its coaching search on Bowden and was prepared to offer him a contract that would pay him in excess of $2 million per year.
According to ESPN, Phillips was in New York on Monday but was prepared to return to the Upstate to meet with Bowden on Tuesday morning.
According to several published reports, Clemson had offered Bowden a two-year extension to his current contract and a raise that would increase his total pay to about $1.6 million.
Bowden and new Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long are longtime friends and worked together on the football coaching staff at Duke.
Bowden has a 69-41 record in nine seasons at Clemson.
The Arkansas job became vacant when the Razorbacks' Houston Nutt quit last month and took the vacant jobat Mississippi.
Arkansas originally focused its coaching search on Auburn's Tommy Tuberville, whose team faces Clemson in the Peach Bowl on Dec. 31.
Clemson is 9-3 and won five of its final six games this season. The Peach Bowl invitation was the 11th straight year a team Bowden coached has been eligible for a postseason game.
Bowden said that he has more talent returning for next season than at any time in his coaching career.
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Division 1 College Football Coaching Salaries
Rank School Name Annual Inc.
1 Alabama Nick Saban $4,000,000
2 Oklahoma Bob Stoops $3,400,000
3 Notre Dame Charlie Weis $3,300,000
4 Southern California Pete Carroll $3,000,000
5 Iowa Kirk Ferentz $2,840,000
6 Texas Mack Brown $2,664,000
7 Louisville Bobby Petrino $2,500,000
8 Ohio State Jim Tressel $2,450,000
9 Auburn Tommy Tuberville $2,231,000
10 Tennessee Philip Fulmer $2,050,000
11 Texas A&M Dennis Franchione $2,012,200
12 Virginia Tech Frank Beamer $2,000,800
13 Florida Urban Meyer $2,000,000
14 Penn State Joe Paterno $2,000,000
15 North Carolina Butch Davis $1,860,000
16 Virginia Al Groh $1,785,000
17 South Carolina Steve Spurrier $1,750,000
18 West Virginia Rich Rodriguez $1,750,000
19 Georgia Mark Richt $1,713,000
20 Florida State Bobby Bowden $1,691,900
21 Maryland Ralph Friedgen $1,691,864
22 Nebraska Bill Callahan $1,690,317
23 Texas Tech Mike Leach $1,600,000
24 California Jeff Tedford $1,505,300
25 Kansas Mark Mangino $1,501,241
26 Michigan Lloyd Carr $1,454,619
27 LSU Les Miles $1,450,000
28 Washington Ty Willingham $1,414,772
29 Oregon Mike Bellotti $1,256,000
30 Fresno State Pat Hill $1,253,982
31 Illinois Ron Zook $1,241,750
32 Purdue Joe Tiller $1,217,742
33 Clemson Tommy Bowden $1,198,028
34 Baylor Guy Morriss $1,144,236
35 Iowa State Gene Chizik $1,125,000
36 South Florida Jim Leavitt $1,117,500
37 Michigan State Mark Dantonio $1,100,000
38 North Carolina State Tom O'Brien $1,100,000
39 Colorado Dan Hawkins $1,098,500
40 Missouri Gary Pinkel $1,095,000
41 Arkansas Houston Nutt $1,049,644
42 UCF George O'Leary $1,035,000
43 Georgia Tech Chan Gailey $1,009,181
44 Navy Paul Johnson $1,003,309
45 Wake Forest Jim Grobe $987,843
46 TCU Gary Patterson $952,162
47 Mississippi State Sylvester Croom $940,000
48 Memphis Tommy West $925,000
49 Rutgers Greg Schiano $911,000
50 Mississippi Ed Orgeron $905,000
51 UCLA Karl Dorrell $881,000
52 Arizona Mike Stoops $865,000
53 Connecticut Randy Edsall $845,000
54 Oregon State Mike Reilly $835,000
55 Hawaii June Jones $820,800
56 Cincinnati Brian Kelly $800,000
57 Oklahoma State Mike Gundy $800,000
58 Wisconsin Brett Bielema $761,600
59 Kansas State Ron Prince $750,000
60 Kentucky Rich Brooks $729,165
61 San Diego State Chuck Long $701,500
62 Utah Kyle Whittingham $672,000
63 Boise State Chris Peterson $640,000
64 Syracuse Greg Robinson $638,441
65 Indiana Terry Hoeppner $600,000
66 Washington State Bill Doba $599,042
67 Houston Art Briles $550,000
68 UTEP Mike Price $543,000
69 Colorado State Sonny Lubick $529,900
70 Wyoming Joe Glenn $505,100
71 BYU Bronco Mendenhall $500,000
72 SMU Phil Bennett $495,602
73 Tulsa Steve Kragthorpe $438,533
74 UNLV Mike Sanford $435,000
75 New Mexico Rocky Long $431,175
76 East Carolina Skip Holtz $425,000
77 Louisiana Tech Derek Dooley $400,000
78 Marshall Mark Snyder $390,603
79 Toledo Tom Amstutz $376,400
80 Duke Ted Roof $370,200
81 Nevada Chris Ault $360,000
82 Florida Atlantic Howard Schnellenberger $353,147
83 Southern Miss Jeff Bower $349,983
84 San Jose State Dick Tomey $342,100
85 New Mexico State Hal Mumme $283,800
86 Ohio Frank Solich $262,172
87 Middle Tennessee Rick Stockstill $254,800
88 Utah State Brent Guy $241,900
89 Troy Larry Blakeney $226,750
90 Northern Illinois Joe Novak $212,496
91 Akron J.D. Brookhart $207,500
92 Louisiana-Lafayette Ricky Bustle $194,250
93 Arkansas State Steve Roberts $189,655
94 Western Michigan Bill Cubit $188,000
95 Buffalo Turner Gill $183,000
96 Ball State Brady Hoke $159,220
97 Eastern Michigan Jeff Genyk $154,442
98 Kent State Doug Martin $150,200
99 Bowling Green Gregg Brandon $150,000
100 Miami-Ohio Shane Montgomery$139,500
101 Louisiana-Monroe Charlie Weatherbie $130,000
102 Air Force Troy Calhoun NA
103 Arizona State Dennis Erickson NA
104 Army Bobby Ross NA
105 Boston College Jeff Jagodzinski NA
106 Central Michigan Butch Jones NA
Rank School Name Annual Inc.
1 Alabama Nick Saban $4,000,000
2 Oklahoma Bob Stoops $3,400,000
3 Notre Dame Charlie Weis $3,300,000
4 Southern California Pete Carroll $3,000,000
5 Iowa Kirk Ferentz $2,840,000
6 Texas Mack Brown $2,664,000
7 Louisville Bobby Petrino $2,500,000
8 Ohio State Jim Tressel $2,450,000
9 Auburn Tommy Tuberville $2,231,000
10 Tennessee Philip Fulmer $2,050,000
11 Texas A&M Dennis Franchione $2,012,200
12 Virginia Tech Frank Beamer $2,000,800
13 Florida Urban Meyer $2,000,000
14 Penn State Joe Paterno $2,000,000
15 North Carolina Butch Davis $1,860,000
16 Virginia Al Groh $1,785,000
17 South Carolina Steve Spurrier $1,750,000
18 West Virginia Rich Rodriguez $1,750,000
19 Georgia Mark Richt $1,713,000
20 Florida State Bobby Bowden $1,691,900
21 Maryland Ralph Friedgen $1,691,864
22 Nebraska Bill Callahan $1,690,317
23 Texas Tech Mike Leach $1,600,000
24 California Jeff Tedford $1,505,300
25 Kansas Mark Mangino $1,501,241
26 Michigan Lloyd Carr $1,454,619
27 LSU Les Miles $1,450,000
28 Washington Ty Willingham $1,414,772
29 Oregon Mike Bellotti $1,256,000
30 Fresno State Pat Hill $1,253,982
31 Illinois Ron Zook $1,241,750
32 Purdue Joe Tiller $1,217,742
33 Clemson Tommy Bowden $1,198,028
34 Baylor Guy Morriss $1,144,236
35 Iowa State Gene Chizik $1,125,000
36 South Florida Jim Leavitt $1,117,500
37 Michigan State Mark Dantonio $1,100,000
38 North Carolina State Tom O'Brien $1,100,000
39 Colorado Dan Hawkins $1,098,500
40 Missouri Gary Pinkel $1,095,000
41 Arkansas Houston Nutt $1,049,644
42 UCF George O'Leary $1,035,000
43 Georgia Tech Chan Gailey $1,009,181
44 Navy Paul Johnson $1,003,309
45 Wake Forest Jim Grobe $987,843
46 TCU Gary Patterson $952,162
47 Mississippi State Sylvester Croom $940,000
48 Memphis Tommy West $925,000
49 Rutgers Greg Schiano $911,000
50 Mississippi Ed Orgeron $905,000
51 UCLA Karl Dorrell $881,000
52 Arizona Mike Stoops $865,000
53 Connecticut Randy Edsall $845,000
54 Oregon State Mike Reilly $835,000
55 Hawaii June Jones $820,800
56 Cincinnati Brian Kelly $800,000
57 Oklahoma State Mike Gundy $800,000
58 Wisconsin Brett Bielema $761,600
59 Kansas State Ron Prince $750,000
60 Kentucky Rich Brooks $729,165
61 San Diego State Chuck Long $701,500
62 Utah Kyle Whittingham $672,000
63 Boise State Chris Peterson $640,000
64 Syracuse Greg Robinson $638,441
65 Indiana Terry Hoeppner $600,000
66 Washington State Bill Doba $599,042
67 Houston Art Briles $550,000
68 UTEP Mike Price $543,000
69 Colorado State Sonny Lubick $529,900
70 Wyoming Joe Glenn $505,100
71 BYU Bronco Mendenhall $500,000
72 SMU Phil Bennett $495,602
73 Tulsa Steve Kragthorpe $438,533
74 UNLV Mike Sanford $435,000
75 New Mexico Rocky Long $431,175
76 East Carolina Skip Holtz $425,000
77 Louisiana Tech Derek Dooley $400,000
78 Marshall Mark Snyder $390,603
79 Toledo Tom Amstutz $376,400
80 Duke Ted Roof $370,200
81 Nevada Chris Ault $360,000
82 Florida Atlantic Howard Schnellenberger $353,147
83 Southern Miss Jeff Bower $349,983
84 San Jose State Dick Tomey $342,100
85 New Mexico State Hal Mumme $283,800
86 Ohio Frank Solich $262,172
87 Middle Tennessee Rick Stockstill $254,800
88 Utah State Brent Guy $241,900
89 Troy Larry Blakeney $226,750
90 Northern Illinois Joe Novak $212,496
91 Akron J.D. Brookhart $207,500
92 Louisiana-Lafayette Ricky Bustle $194,250
93 Arkansas State Steve Roberts $189,655
94 Western Michigan Bill Cubit $188,000
95 Buffalo Turner Gill $183,000
96 Ball State Brady Hoke $159,220
97 Eastern Michigan Jeff Genyk $154,442
98 Kent State Doug Martin $150,200
99 Bowling Green Gregg Brandon $150,000
100 Miami-Ohio Shane Montgomery$139,500
101 Louisiana-Monroe Charlie Weatherbie $130,000
102 Air Force Troy Calhoun NA
103 Arizona State Dennis Erickson NA
104 Army Bobby Ross NA
105 Boston College Jeff Jagodzinski NA
106 Central Michigan Butch Jones NA
Tommy makes about 2.2mil per yr now according to what I heard on the radio making him the third highest paid coach in the ACC. They havent released official details though. But all his assistants got raises too or will be getting them shortly.
Sorry I need something more than a student newspaper to consider it a viable source.
Or some hillbilly news service in Arkansas?
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2007/12/06/News/344335.html
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2007/12/06/News/344335.html
poor old arkansas........ it is like they have the plague