Skip Holtz tells me LA Tech probably won't have a 10th assistant this season, due to budgeting. The only FBS program that won't have one. (Air Force has yet to announce a 14th)
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Skip Holtz tells me LA Tech probably won't have a 10th assistant this season, due to budgeting. The only FBS program that won't have one. (Air Force has yet to announce a 14th)
This should look good on our AD's resume. Maybe he can cut some from his own salary or his top guy's salary.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
Our athletic director has embarrassed us. Total failure on McClelland's part. Unacceptable. Just another reason why McClelland did not deserve a raise and extension. Guice needs to hold him accountable.
He was to busy playing golf and other personal trips to go find the money . This is a big failure for him.
Literally the only Tech-related news that came out of C-USA Media Days is that our AD is incompetent. McClelland had more than 15 MONTHS to prepare for this!
Tell Skip to first worry about winning some of those close games he gave away last season before worrying about hiring a 10th coach.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
Skip needs to stop the excuse-mongering. Every year it's something. Last year it was "75 injuries". Back in 2013 it was "we lost 35 seniors", or whatever. Skip needs to dispense with the excuses. Just win for a change.
YOU GUYS ARE A JOKE--really , we are near the bottom for funding athletics and we have done awesome upgrading facilities --go see the facilities other programs have compared to us --always a topic of Dooley. Now you whine 24/7 about Tech . I am so sick of the hatred on this "kids in mom and dads basement " - Sonny. in my wildest dreams I never expected to see Tech with such great facilities-- 55 years has made me love Tech and proud of what we accomplish. Ever wonder why most posts coming from the haters --now the BBB posters quit reading the garbage being spit out . GO dogs! if you are new to BBB just ignore the stupid no it all posters-- you will figure it out pretty quick-- they are the posters who pose as fan and rip the program, coaches and ADs --- also enjoy the response to this post, will remind you of the snowflakes ripping our president -
Hard not to hear this news and cringe.
Your own son is the one who started this thread with a mad face emoji! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogsince65
Tech's budget is $8.6 million greater than ULM, and somehow ULM found a way to hire a 10th assistant. There is no excuse. McClelland deserves to be called out. That's why Skip threw McClelland under the bus at C-USA Media Days, to publicly embarrass McClelland enough to get his 10th assistant. It should never have come to this, but here we are 15 months later.
But... "Everything is GREAT!!!!! You are FAKE FANS... Haters HATERS!! STUPID fake fans. I saw Terry Bradshaw throw 6 interceptions. POSERS!!! Snowflakes!! I've been a real fan for 55 years. YOU ARE ALL FAKE FANS!!!" :rolleyes4:
I made a post similar to this some time ago and couldn't agree with you more! Welcome to the club. I guess you will fall into the category of those that are impeding progress through the normal method on BBB of embarrassing the officials who aren't in good favor. Progress through complaining.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogsince65
How about both? McClelland is a never ending well of incompetence from which Skip can draw as many excuses as he needs to keep his job. And we'll just smile and ask for more.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Man Skip knows how to work the media. The "probably" really stuck out to me. He gets it out before the decision is final OR, if the decision is final, he gets it out in enough time for it to change.
I predict we get one.
How many coaches does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Ten assistants....:rolleyes4:
Not as bad a basketball when you see more suits than players on the court.
Yep! Skip knows how to deal with TMac.Quote:
Originally Posted by touchdown123
It baffles me that some of you don't like it when fans criticize TMac. He's our AD (our paid professional to lead our athletic program). He's not a Tech alumn. The day we part ways, his Tech stuff will be in the garbage. It is embarrassing that we are the only school without a 10th FB assistant. It is his job to put our coaches in the best position to win. If budget is an issue, find out a way to fix it. He gets paid $248k a year to figure this sh*t out.
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The mad emoji face was the correct emoji to use in this instance. It is unthinkable we would not be able to hire the 10th assistant. Terrible planning by TMAC. This is a screw-up nearly on the level of BVDV bowl fiasco. Just think about our AD for 22 of the past 24 years....joakes, bvdv and tommy. We could be the premier Group of 5 program if we had competent leadership.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
This ought to cheer you up!
https://www.si.com/college-football/...tte-nick-saban
Heck yeah. Looks like a hire in the Bustle/Husdpeth tradition.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlickRick
They should be able to maintain their stellar brand of football for as long as he walks the sideline.
It really makes me sick to my stomach to think what we could be if we didn't burn it to the ground as soon as anything good gets started.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bulldog Tom
Yet, we have TWO Women's Basketball Head Coaches, from the same household. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by qng001
Not really, but if it cheers you up, that was my intent.Quote:
Originally Posted by DawgyNWindow
I have never understood this. Basketball needs 3 guys on the sideline not in uniform.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
After thinking about this one for a while...
How do we know that our AD made the call? Maybe it was his boss. With all the cuts being made by our state government to higher ed, it may not be PC to hire a coach when faculty staff hires are not being allowed.
I'm no fan of our resume building AD, but I thought I'd throw this out there.
If anyone is attending the Shreveport event tonight, that would be a good question to ask.
There's a Shreveport event tonight?Quote:
Originally Posted by SpaceDawg
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Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
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If we were the only school in the state to hire one, maybe.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Otherwise, I'd think this is how it would go down "hey LG we need to hire a 10th coach." "Great Mr. AD hire one." "Yea but uhhh we don't have the money." "Well you aren't getting any more public funds and it isn't coming from the foundation."
*AD walks out TO DO HIS JOB
However it went down, I believe it was more political than lack of available funding. I also believe it will get fixed and we will have the 10th coach.Quote:
Originally Posted by touchdown123
Dont think the absence of a 10th assistant is going to matter in Ws and Ls, and not sure that it really matter otherwise. However, I bet we have one this time next year.
I agree. I believe it was mentioned when the rule was announced that an extra "order taker" is not what our HC needs.Quote:
Originally Posted by BruceWillisDawg
Wouldn't surprise me. Would be interesting to hear TMac's side. Total speculation, but it could be a dispute about the pay level of the coach. Skip's prospects want more than we are willing to pay. TMac won't approve more bc he thinks Skip is aiming too high, he doesn't understand why we can't promote a GA or something. If Skip leaked to the media in that situation, I would find that to be objectionable.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
I've never thought being objectionable towards our AD was a concern of Holtz.:laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by touchdown123
Correct me if I"m wrong, but our much admired S&C football trainer is not considered a coach is he? I'd think that "salary" has to come out of the athletic budget in some form.
We would have enough money for another assistant if we played nlu.
No, but they would advertise before the game that is should be played in Monroe because they have more coaches than we do, and that it’s a sell out because it was dress in empty bleacher camo day for the Tech Game.
Seriously? We have one co-head coach who is paid like a head coach and one co-head coach who is paid like an assistant. Therefore, we have one head coach and one assistant from the same family. Louisiana's nepotism laws do not allow that to happen, so we must name them co-head coaches. It's not that hard to understand.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJDAWG
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Originally Posted by theprofessor
I don't know. I would love to have a full-time special teams coach with some experience. I saw what happened last year against UAB and Southern Miss where we had special teams coaching issues late in both games.Quote:
Originally Posted by BruceWillisDawg
Exactly. But it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out that kicking from outside the 40 may backfire sometimes (a lot of the time). Also, any coach can tell a player, “hey, that directional kick crap has gotten us burned a lot. Just put it in the end zone.”Quote:
Originally Posted by The Historian
Do any of you guys know what the dollar amount is, in the pool of funding, to pay football assistants at Tech? Just curious what Skip has to work with compared to the rest of the G5.
He had $150K to pay this guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
Based on what Skip and Tommy said at the Bulldog Blitz in Shreveport tonight, it sounds like it is not a matter of if a 10th coach will be hired, it is a matter of when it will happen. It could even be before the season begins this year. But I guess we'll see if it actually happens.
Interesting. Thanks for the update.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
How was Walk-On’s?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
We know it’s many $$$ less than any other school in the country because we never hear the end of “doing more with less”.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
Cramped. They had us in two connected rooms. Some folks had to stand because there weren't enough tables. The "meal" was a buffet with salad, red beans and rice, boudin balls, a pasta dish of some type, bread pudding dessert thingy. My wife and I thought the salad was good and everything else was just so-so (not bad, just not great). The guy to my wife's right remarked we paid $25 for some rice with not much meat and that the event should be moved back to Ralph and Kacoos. There was nothing about the place that made me want to go there again just as a place to eat. The employees were pleasant. It was our first time to attend the Bulldog Blitz so I'm glad we went, but Walk-Ons as the venue might not have been the best choice in my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dixonfor6
Good to hear. I didn't think a bonehead decision such as this would be allowed to stand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
Skip called out the guy who planned the Bulldawg Blitz at Walk-On's. He said "IF YOU ARE STILL AROUND NEXT YEAR", you might want to look for a different venue!
I understand wanting to do the blitz in Shreveport but Silver Star or Ralph & Kacoos are definitely better options than Walkons imo.
That said, I imagine the rationale for Walkons could relate to their sponsoring of the Independence Bowl. It's not a bad idea to play nice with them.
You think the total salary pool for assistant football coaches is in the neighborhood of 2 mil?Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Kent, why don’t you just go ahead and tell them what you are itching to say.
Whoever planned the event went really cheap with the food options! They should have had Tuscan Chicken, VooDoo Shrimp, etc!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
you mean the lalaff smoke and mirrors when they announce a number but don't actually pay that much?Quote:
Originally Posted by rabiddawg
And even if it is that much, what does it say about a program when it has to pay through the nose to put a staff together?Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Nailed itQuote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Tuscan Chicken? VooDoo Shrimp? How much money do you think we have?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dixonfor6
Enough for a 10th assistant?
I think he means for the $25/plate that was spent by fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgonit
Ryan Moats is moving back to Ruston, perhaps he could fill the slot, if our admin can find the money.
I'm the biggest Ryan Moats fan that I know. Seriously, you won't find anyone who roots harder for him than I do. I hope that we can find a role for him. I'd love for him to be an offensive analyst or a graduate assistant. I do not believe hiring him to be the 10th assistant would be a good move right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by RhinoDawg
This is not an event that should be moved "back to Ralph and Kacoos" because this is not the TAG Preseason Luncheon that you have been used to. That preseason luncheon is organized and promoted by volunteers who were paid nothing. It costs $20.00 for you to eat in a room packed with Bulldog fans because the event focuses on the fans having fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
Now you have paid staff (Associate, Assistant, Assitant to the Associate, etc AD's) who organize the event with what I believe is for the fans but it's also as much to kiss the butt of corporate sponsors. Nothing wrong with that but be careful asking for a 10th Assistant because it may require the hiring of more Associate and Assistant AD's to help raise money to pay for the new 10th Assistant and that will require them to raise more corporate money and if that doesn't work they can just raise your LTAC dues because they have to raise money to pay for those new Associate/Assistant ADs..........
That has got to be one of the most asinine statements I have ever seen on a message board. Have you seen what college assistants are making across the country today? In todays environment of college athletics you've got to pay if you want to assemble a good staff. Strictly from a resume stand point, Napier has put together the best staff the Cajuns have every had by far. Plus Napier has more off field support staff than the little school in Lafayette has ever had also. He has set up his staff much like the one he worked on under Nick for 5 years. Albeit with a lot less money. What does it say about all those P5 programs that have to pay through the nose to put a staff together?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Historian
Maybe the links below are the real truth behind why one program can pay football assistants more than the other and has a pool of 2 million.
Your pool may be 2 mil also? I don't know because no one has answered that simple question? I would think a school with Techs stature, would pay football assistants at least the same, if not even more than a sunbelt school in Lafayette.
https://ragincajuns.com/news/2018/7/...-and-rcaf.aspx
https://www.latechalumni.org/s/810/r...gid=1&pgid=913
Lafayette can't pay enough to keep one. Why waste money when it's still not enough? Oh yeah, y'all were able to hold on to coach Roid because you paid him so well. How did that work out for you?
Different AD in place now from back then, things are run much differently now. It doesn't even look like the same athletic department compared to when Scott Farmer was here. But you keep living in the past while I look forward.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
12.4 mil compared to 1.5 mil explains it all.
how long do you expect this transformation to take? Again, you can't pay enough to keep assistants there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
Not sure what you mean, we can't pay enough to keep assistants? Napier has lost one assistant since he was hired and that was to Alabama. No G5 school should expect to compete with a P5 financially. I don't see any G5 schools out biddding us on an assistant for the same position. The current staff has plenty of coaches who actually left P5 schools for the same position in Lafayette. That's a testament to how much they like and think of Napier.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Currently according to 247 sports the Cajuns have the 54th best recruiting class over all for 2019. The only G5 schools ahead of them are ECU and SMU at 49 and 52 respectively. If they hold that ranking, and keep that trend going for a few years, the transformation will be sooner rather than later.
https://247sports.com/Season/2019-Fo...eTeamRankings/
I think you know what I mean. If any P5 or G5 with real money wants one of your coaches they will come get them. Do you have a list of salaries that you are paying current assistants that equals the bogus amount you people have been bragging about?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
I don't have the break down by each. I can tell you the salary pool for football assistants has been upped to 2 mil this year. I have know clue what the rest of the G5's pools total. I do know with 12.4 Million raised by the RCAF, in the 2017 fiscal year, that just ended, which was founded for the sole purpose of competitively paying coaches, we should be able to hold our own against the rest of the G5. I don't have all the figures nor do I care to research, but I would guess 12.4 is in the upper end of monies raised, by athletic foundations, in the G5. I agree 100% that if a P5 wants what a G5 has none of us can compete. The school in Lafayette has done a very good job of making sure they don't get plucked by a G5.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
On the current staff there are assistants coaches who were at Arizona St, Texas Tech, Arkansas and Mississippi state before coming to Lafayette. There is also a coach that was an FCS head coach last year, that still had his job when he left, and 3 that were position coaches in CUSA and the Belt. You are saying we can't pay coaches, when the facts show we are the one plucking them away now. Don't ever let the facts get in the way of a good argument.
12.4 much > 1.5.
https://ragincajuns.com/coaches.aspx?path=football
https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/...arn/969064001/
We have no interest in continually debating a fan from what has historically been a much-inferior football program.
That's what I was thinking. Why is this Kent dude posting here? Looking for affirmation from BIG BROTHER that things are okay down at ULALA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech77
Nobody cares what you claim for a budget. That means nothing. What are you paying them? Even if you were paying them $2M you would not be able to keep them from moving to another school.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
They have been down so long they will look for affirmation anywhere they can to boost that ego. Why else would he bring up the subject of assistant pay. Nothing else to hang his hat on. We are much more accommodating here than they are to visitors to their site.
You know I posted here when I read you guys couldn't afford that 10th coach. Just asked a simply ? about how much your assistant salary pool was and no one has yet to answer. Almost as if you are embarrassed to say. If winning a few football games make you "Big Brother" then so be it, because thats all you got. Everything else in Lafayette is > than Ruston.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Have I mentioned one athletic foundation raised 12.4 mil last year and another you know the "Big Brother" only 1.5 mil.
Keep looking back. Focus on the past. What happened in the past is all that matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech77
Yep. 5 bowl games in 7 years, and 4 9-4 seasons was nothing to hang our hat on. That was definitely not good enough, so we hired a consultant, got a new AD, started paying coaches, and funding the program, like it should be, for the first time ever. But you should keep looking back at history that is all that matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by WWDog
We don’t have to refute that pathetic attempt at boasting. It refutes itself.
You are here. Speaks for itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
My thoughts exactly. Kent is an azzhole, and ULL really sucks. Kent keeps talking about "the future" because ULL has no worthy past, and he doesn't have to prove anything when talking about the future. :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech77
ULL is a coaches grave yard. Kent knows it, and so do we. Coach Roid was further proof of it. Fact is, ULL kills more coaching careers than Father Time.
Nobody other than coon asses were impressed with the claim of $2mQuote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
I'm in Lafayette about twice a month and I can tell you, the Lafayette fans have once again convinced themselves that the AAC will be calling them soon. Of course, they're also convinced that that's only a precursor of the call that's sure to be coming from the Big 12. They truly believe that LSU is completely consumed with worry about what goes on in Lafayette. I live in Baton Rouge and I can tell you that nobody I know here that is associated with LSU pays a lick of attention to anything Lafayette (or any of the rest of us) does. A $100M athletic budget will do that to you.
Cory Diaz @CoryDiaz_TNS 22m22 minutes ago
Sources: Skip Holtz is set to hire Erik Link as his 10th assistant coach at Louisiana Tech. Link’s hire is expected to be approved today. Holtz will have his 10th assistant coach just before fall camp begins Friday morning. Story to come. #LATech
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A high school coach in Iowa. Previously at Auburn, Iowa State and Montana State. Welcome to Tech.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpaceDawg
What will he coach?
Well, there ya go! Whether we need him or not, LA Tech has now hired that 10th football coach to join the FBS arms race, just like all the "big boys".Quote:
Originally Posted by SpaceDawg
https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/col...-army-analysts
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"The arms race was in facilities and now it's in staff members," said ESPN's Mack Brown, the former Texas coach.
In any company there are PRODUCERS, and there are "hangers on". These 10 coaching hires in college football are nothing more than "hangers-on". Their input will make absolutely no difference in how their football programs perform in the 2018 season. This is nothing more than senseless "Empire Building" by head coaches. Nick Saban started it, because he knows other schools can't keep up. I honestly believe college football would be well served if Nick Saban & Alabama got knocked out of the NC picture for about the next 8 or 10 yrs.Quote:
"We identified an area that we were deficit as compared to the teams that are in the national championship hunt every year, the Alabamas, the Clemsons, the Ohio States, the Florida States of the world," (Texas Coach Tom) Herman said, later adding "we're going to get an army down there just like rest of the big boys in college football do."
Hopefully he’ll coach special teams. I don’t think a dedicated special teams could be considered a hanger-on.
A special teams coach won't have any more "say-so" than our OC or DC. Rather than delegate duties, he wants a staff full or order takers.Quote:
Originally Posted by THEarmada
https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sp...ink/879841002/
Missing Link: Louisiana Tech finds 10th football assistant coach
Cory DiazUpdated 2:54 p.m. CT Aug. 1, 2018
Yes, because the other 9 coaches couldn't find time to do it. :icon_roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
They are probably preoccupied watching Hester flex in the mirror. He is the greatest after all.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Based upon last years performance by HCSH, special teams will be on the field a lot trying for field goals..Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Skip public relationed the hell out of this hire didn't he? Leaks the issue to the media. Get's his way. Hires a special teams guy, which the fan base has been complaining about. Dude should run for office.
Thats why he should be the AD not the HC.Quote:
Originally Posted by touchdown123
yawn--- impossible to take you serious -- when you have a athletic scholarship named after you its funny to see a hater like you taking himself so serious --- actually see it as compliment when you throw stupid stuff out there-- and you are 100% RIGHT-- things are GREAT!! we won't waste time trying to explain the difference in Great and Perfect --Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
OMG! You have a REAL SCHOLARSHIP named for you?! (I cant believe you've never mentioned that before!)
Wow, that changes everything. You must be really important.
We are all going to agree with you -- 100 percent -- from now on. You are surely the greatest Tech fan ever.
To hell with Dawg06 and his lame-ass "facts".
I bet he doesnt even have a scholarship name for him. Loser.
Dogsince65... I appreciate the dog out of you!! Stay positive brother... Tech grows with people like you and falls without people like you. True Blue! Don't let them sour you on this program.
It's an impressive number, but understand that monies to pay down debt is also being run through the RCAF. That's where the vast majority of that money is going - to pay off debt. LTAC at Tech had similar numbers a few years ago when money was being raised for the endzone facility and press box. Tech simply separates those monies differently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
Without it you would have $55 million is debt service payments over the next 26 years to pay off the loan and GO bonds that funded your recent construction projects.
Kent,Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
I appreciate your enthusiasm. Understand, I'm not trying to make any type of derogatory remark about the Cajun program. Far from it. I'm simply trying to point out the reason for the spending.
Your program was at rock bottom in December, 2017. In some ways it still is until it can get on the field and win some games. Given that fact and the history of the program from a coach's perspective, you had to overpay for the market.
Fortunately, over the decades Tech has never had to do that. We've been able to attract quality assistants without have to overreach. Within CUSA, Southern Miss is another good example. Over the decades, they've been able to attract assistants without having to overpay. A combination of environment and winning along with the ability to advance in career are all factors.
To give an example in the corporate world look at Wells Fargo. They had a scandal a few years ago and have gone on a hiring spree nationwide looking for auditors, compliance, anti-money laundering people, etc... in an attempt to get their house in order. To do so, they're paying as much as 50% more for those positions than their competitors. Otherwise, they would never attract quality people given what they're just gone through.
To follow-up on my previous post, I'm sure you've had to overpay for the staff you've put together, but a few things are worth pointing out: About your coordinators - Ron Roberts has never coached in the FBS. Rob Sale carried a coordinator's title at McNeese years ago, but it appears he has never been a play caller. Matt Viator called his own plays. Tim Leger is a good guy, but he and your other former ULM assistant didn't produce a winning record at ULM. I thought Juluke was a good coach while at Tech, but his recruiting prowess was clearly overblown.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
For having to overpay, your staff isn't quite what I thought it would be. Also, you've thrown out the number "$2 million". I've seen that number used on the RaginPagin, which is always correct. :icon_razz: Can you provide us with a link to that number.
Dear Mr. Historian,Quote:
Originally Posted by The Historian
Please clean up after yourself, once you're finished wiping the floor with Kent's face. It's important for each member of our community to be respectful of stupid people, and play their part in being a good neighbor.
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