And the G5 salary escalation continues

Harry · May 12, 2017

Memphis: Head coach Mike Norvell has signed a 1-year extension with a “significant” salary bump for assistants, according to SI’s Pete Thamel. Norvell originally inked a 5-year deal that paid him $1.8 million in 2016 before leading the Tigers to an 8-5 mark in his first year on the job. Memphis paid Norvell’s assistants $2.15 million in ’16, sixth-most among AAC public schools according to USA Today.

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MeanGreenTexan · May 12, 2017

19 minutes ago, Harry said:

Memphis: Head coach Mike Norvell has signed a 1-year extension with a “significant” salary bump for assistants, according to SI’s Pete Thamel. Norvell originally inked a 5-year deal that paid him $1.8 million in 2016 before leading the Tigers to an 8-5 mark in his first year on the job. Memphis paid Norvell’s assistants $2.15 million in ’16, sixth-most among AAC public schools according to USA Today.

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WHAT!?!?!
What is Memphis thinking? Why would you extend a coach for 1 season?

untjim1995 · May 12, 2017

37 minutes ago, Harry said:

Memphis: Head coach Mike Norvell has signed a 1-year extension with a “significant” salary bump for assistants, according to SI’s Pete Thamel. Norvell originally inked a 5-year deal that paid him $1.8 million in 2016 before leading the Tigers to an 8-5 mark in his first year on the job. Memphis paid Norvell’s assistants $2.15 million in ’16, sixth-most among AAC public schools according to USA Today.

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Those AAC schools are a PG league--they have budgets that are much higher than the lower G5, but much lower than the P5.

Ben Gooding · May 12, 2017

6 minutes ago, untjim1995 said:

Those AAC schools are a PG league--they have budgets that are much higher than the lower G5, but much lower than the P5.

They're just trying to hang on to the threads of being big time football. They are separating themselves from the G5, but they are nowhere closer to P5 status. We need consistent WMU's every year to take the G5 auto bid from the AAC and place it in the other G5 conferences.

untjim1995 · May 12, 2017

18 minutes ago, Ben Gooding said:

They're just trying to hang on to the threads of being big time football. They are separating themselves from the G5, but they are nowhere closer to P5 status. We need consistent WMU's every year to take the G5 auto bid from the AAC and place it in the other G5 conferences.

So far, the auto bid has gone to Western Michigan (MAC), Houston (AAC), Boise State (MWC), Northern Illinois (MAC), and Central Florida (AAC). It would really help our league a lot if we could get a team in that slot. Because right now, the college football media and fans look at the SBCUSA as just basically being the same level of teams.

Ben Gooding · May 12, 2017

20 minutes ago, untjim1995 said:

So far, the auto bid has gone to Western Michigan (MAC), Houston (AAC), Boise State (MWC), Northern Illinois (MAC), and Central Florida (AAC). It would really help our league a lot if we could get a team in that slot. Because right now, the college football media and fans look at the SBCUSA as just basically being the same level of teams.

Oh I agree. It just needs to stay out of the AAC. If that bid becomes an AAC Champion de facto bid, the remaining 4 leagues are in even more trouble. To note, we've (CUSA) had some really good teams in that same time frame.

Edited May 12, 2017 by Ben Gooding

VideoEagle · May 12, 2017

48 minutes ago, Ben Gooding said:

Oh I agree. It just needs to stay out of the AAC. If that bid becomes an AAC Champion de facto bid, the remaining 4 leagues are in even more trouble.

So far that's not a problem as the AAC is tied with the MAC for teams in the access bowl. I notice no single team has repeated yet, either.

Aquila_Viridis · May 17, 2017

There's a lot of desperation about the Memphis Tigers here. Their basketball has unsustainable expectations but is on the precipice. So they have seen some hope about the football especially with that recent recruiting class. They saw Louisville get away again and now having huge success. But in their hearts they probably know they can't get there. Meanwhile they'll throw a relative ton of money at the whole thing but it can't be enough. I just wonder for how long they'll keep it up.

Edited May 17, 2017 by Aquila_Viridis