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Originally Posted by venice10
Like most things, price does not equal results. Ed Orgeron, Gary Patterson and Dan Mullen were in the top 10 this year and are now available without having to pay a buyout. David Shaw is 3rd and led Stanford to 3-9 record.
David Shaw, like the rest of the top paid coaches in the Pac-12 only makes $5 million/year. He had 1 year where he exceeded that due to some bonuses and backpay that were owed to him. (this as compared to the Michigan State coach who will make $95 million over 10 years, pre-bonuses).
Saying that salaries don't matter is very ignorant. If a team such as USC or Florida State is only committed to paying their coach $5 million/year while top teams in the SEC/B1G are willing to pay their coaches $9 million/year+ then USC or Florida State could have the best coach in the world, but they won't be able to keep them. Paying their coach only $5 million/yr makes that coaching job a stepping stone job, no better than the head coaching job at Mississippi State or Kentucky, and apparently a much worse job than the head coaching job at Michigan State.
The discrepancies between conferences has already been playing out on the field with the SEC having won 11 of the last 15 national championships. That's 4 different SEC teams that have won a national championship since the last time a Pac-12 team won it. 5 once you add Texas to the SEC. The highest ranked Pac-12 team this year is ranked #10. The highest ranked ACC team is ranked #17.
Once all the new TV deals gets finalized the discrepancies will only increase especially with Texas and OU moving to the SEC. The Pac-12, ACC, and especially the Big 12's football revenues will be so much less than the SEC and B1G's that it will be hard for them to justify investing into their football programs at a rate that will allow them to be competitive year in and year out.