If That is Truly What it Takes to Compete

Nov 23, 2017
9:11:10am

Uncle Bluto All-American

We should throw the towel in. Keeping up in the unsustainable arms (money) race is too out of line with the priorities of the church IMO.

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Uncle Bluto

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The article by Kinahan nails it...our football budget, esp for assistant coaches

BYUfan92

11/23/17 9:01am

Shame on you

youngster

11/23/17 9:06am

Has there been an assistant coach at Utah who has left for a promotion?

nephicoug

11/23/17 9:09am

Gary A, Kalani to Oregon St, Chow to Hawaii, etc

Coogar2

11/23/17 4:05pm

If That is Truly What it Takes to Compete

Uncle Bluto

11/23/17 9:11am

I think this is crazy talk and discounts all of the good BYU football does.

HarlemCoug

11/23/17 9:16am

But the sport itself harms player's brains. Double Whammy

Uncle Bluto

11/23/17 9:49am

You make a good point. I believe it will fall upon the affluent among us to dig

NewMexiCoug

11/23/17 9:25am

Church would even veto that.

Uncle Bluto

11/23/17 9:50am

Perhaps, but until 10 years ago the Coaches Circle wasn't even a

NewMexiCoug

11/23/17 10:45am

If only we could afford the $3-4M it takes to hire someone like, oh, Bronco

PGVikingDad

11/23/17 9:13am

If you're going to take that position, and I understand your point, then are you

BYUfan92

11/23/17 9:23am

The truth is that I believe the success of a coach is largely dependent upon the

PGVikingDad

11/23/17 9:37am

Agree

cougfanz

11/23/17 9:39am

It is for the assistants who are grossly underpaid

Archaea

11/23/17 9:57am

We're not offering anything close to a million dollars a year though.

BYUfan92

11/23/17 9:59am

You can’t expect to lucky and must pay market rates

Archaea

11/23/17 10:00am

The problem is that most of those legendary coaches started at less legendary

Scratch

11/23/17 1:14pm

I agree with respect to the head coach. I wish we were able to pay assistants more, and also pony up for whatever

CalGTR

11/23/17 1:32pm

We are much much less successful that everyone you just mentioned.

CougarinOZ

11/23/17 2:49pm

Looks like Sitake at 2m is adequately paid. Since you claim assistant coaches

Bullrider

11/23/17 2:47pm

Question is whether u would get better assistants at higher pay

cougfanz

11/23/17 3:13pm

BYU reports to the DOE that it pays a total of about $2.9M for all of its mens

Scratch

11/23/17 4:26pm

Funds from Coach's Circle supplement the official salaries. Kalani is well paid, as was Bronco.

CalGTR

11/23/17 5:30pm

Since when did Utah retain OCs?

Coogar2

11/23/17 4:04pm

Kinehan just wants a reaction not truth

Coogar2

11/23/17 4:07pm

Chow made double as an OC in the ACC than the HC at BYU at that time.

oldrugger

11/23/17 6:12pm

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