The House of Blue

I wouldn't expect anything until December, but you never know. It would be a mistake to wait until January. The thing is, if UK hires from a bowl bound team, then UK will likely not see said coach until after their bowl game. All depends on how confident they are in their top candidates and how receptive the candidates are to the pitch.

If they really visited Tuscaloosa today, then they are VERY serious about Kirby Smart.

For comparison's sake, Sonny Dykes makes $450k at La Tech

There is technically a waiting period, but not for these types of positions or even UK Administrative positions. You go find the right person and then fill out the paperwork later. I am sure the paperwork is technically completed before the official hire date, but that is not a real obstacle.

They need to go for the gusto and spend some freaking money! James Franklin is making $3 Million a year at Vandy...

You're kidding yourself if you don't think UK has the money necessary to make a big splash here. Mitch himself said the money would not be an issue. I don't think they're going to pay an absurd amount of money to just anyone, but if the right guy was available and interested they would be able to.

FB brought in 27 million last year. If we can't shake out 5-7 million for a FB coaching staff then you see the real problem. We are stripping the sport that brings in the money to royally support sports people don't care enough about to buy a cheap ticket to see. If UK doesn't fix this they will have to shut down a bunch of these non revenue sports. UK competes in more sports than any SEC school including rich schools like UF and UGA. It doesn't make sense. Football should get the first cut and only if there is money left over should it be shunted to other uses. A good football program pays for everything. Strip football and the whole mess runs dry.

He got a raise before the season. Bumped him up to $950,000.

I'd be shocked if you hear anything before the end of the regular season on Thanksgiving weekend. I guess if they hire someone not currently in the game it could come before but I don't think that will be the case.

They might know who their guy is before then but if they're grabbing another school's head coach or top assistant then I can't believe they'll announce it until that team's regular season is over.

I don't know and not to be a pisser I don't care about Lville. UK will have to pay out a ton more for its football program to move into the middle to upper sec.

Where will this money come from I do not know. COAL I GUESS AND ANDY BARR ?????

$6M puts you around the middle of the road for an SEC staff. That's certainly not out of the question. Last I saw, Joker is getting paid $1.7M per year with the rest of the staff making another $2M, plus. We are dead last in what we pay our coaches.

Factor in the fact that we've averaged about 16,000 below capacity at, say a $35 average ticket price. Over 7 home games, that's more than $3.9M lost PLUS whatever number you want to tack on for concessions. We have lost more in ticket revenue this season alone than we paid to our coaches.

Some would say we can't afford not to throw the bank at someone who can fill the seats.

They lost $1.5m in ticket sells at the Vandy game this past Saturday. They already pay Joker $1.8m, and a for the recruiting money they lost it in concession sales on Saturday. Money isn't an issue in that respect. It is if you are losing $3m a week in revenue. JMO

And you need to get over the previous budget, because it wasn't seeing the profit that it should have. If the right coach is hired, football revenue could double in three years and see growth until that day.