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Posted: 7/25/2020 11:32 PM
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Don't get me wrong Jeff M as I think Coach Boals will do well and the former AD at Ohio probably should have hired him a few years back. That way his starting salary wouldn't have been near $600,000. Ohio's former AD could have hired him at a salary slightly more than what Geno is currently making at Stony Brook. Maybe his salary would have increased with his performance?
The salaries are still reasonable for a program that is expected to compete regularly in the Top 3 of the MAC.

When Saul was hired in I remember how both he and Schaus considered Ohio to be the top basketball job in the MAC.

It's debatable if Ohio is the top football job in the MAC but Solich is definitely one the highest profile coaches in the conference.
What would Saul have said about the job were a) he not the one hired into it, and b) wasn't (at the time) the league's highest paid coach?

Still the best job in the MAC?
That's a standard throw away line everyone uses. By virtue of saying it you also imply you're the best coach in the league. Anyway, we paid too much for Tim O'Shea and things went up from there. 2012 will be 9 years away this spring.
TOS was just an assistant at BC though. He started at a modest 150k He wasn't the next level, a Bobcat 2.0 coach meaning a major recruiter like Groce or a veteran D1 coach like the last 3 guys that were hired.

The question is do you want to be a bigger D1 sports school? Facilities and pay make Ohio a high mid major level job which is right for a school of Ohio's stature and fan support.

While Boeh made raising Ohio's athletic stature an idea it was Schaus that really made it happen with those salaries, budgets and investments.

Sounds like many of you on here though of of the opinion that nothing has fundamentally changed in relation to Ohio athletics since 1990. My opinion the whole operation has moved up a full level in the last decade or so.
Timmy started out at more than $150k a year
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Posted: 7/26/2020 6:55 AM
TOS deal was 250k/yr for SEVEN years
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Posted: 7/26/2020 7:17 AM
"And Jeff has more MAC Championship rings than Frank."

I guess so if you are counting his playing time. And Frank has more national championship rings than Jeff. Look at the salary the current Buffalo coach is making. That program has been by far the best overall the last six seasons. The point is that Jeff is a good hire, but the former AD overpaid him for his first contract.
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Posted: 7/26/2020 11:05 PM
BillyTheCat wrote:expand_more
A good first step would be firing all the fat cat administrators on the task force. Lots of wasted dollars in their salaries.
I dunno. I feel like reckoning with the fact that your single highest paid employee has never won a conference championship, oversees a program that loses money every season, and that as an organization nobody can really justify his salary is an important step in any budget conversation.

But, I mean, if you want to leave that until second, whatever.
The single highest paid employee is not the football coach who has been at this institution for 16 seasons, it is the new basketball coach who has been employed for a year. Nobody mentions that the former AD overpaid to get Coach Boals in Athens.
Boals, Jeffrey Donald MENS BASKETBALL Head Men's Basketball Coach N/A $581,000.00
Solich, Frank FOOTBALL Head Football Coach N/A $524,928.00

The above info is from The Post. I think the hire of Coach Boals was a good move by Ohio, but in his three seasons as head coach at Stony Brook his teams won 56% of the games and did not win the American East once. The hire was good, but the former AD overpaid for his services.
Not totally true, Frank’s extension made him higher paid than Jeff. And Jeff has more MAC Championship rings than Frank.
I wonder if the Post will update this again this year.

http://projects.thepostathens.com/SpecialProjects/the-pos...
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Posted: 7/29/2020 4:18 PM
BillyTheCat wrote:expand_more
Not totally true, Frank’s extension made him higher paid than Jeff. And Jeff has more MAC Championship rings than Frank.
This is the most worthless throw-in comment ever. Yeah Boals, show off that MAC Championship ring while Solich has three Big Eight titles, an Orange Bowl win, and a SI cover.
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