You already know USC paid Pat Haden $2.9 million for 2014. And more in 2015. And Lynn Swann no doubt wanted a similar salary.
Well, Washington just made interim A.D. Jennifer Cohen its full-time athletic director. Shockingly from a USC perspective, Cohen got the job after working at Washington for 18 years. Anyways, her five-year deal pays $460,000 annually, with another $60,000 in deferred payments and another $100,000 in potential bonuses. Is USC’s A.D. really worth $2.5 million more?
Mike Rae’s caddy should not have been paid just for his incompetence dealing with ncaa, Sark, Kiffin, and not hiring Coach O. Who goofed…I’ve got to know!
If Ed Orgeron were that good he would have tried again aside from MS – he isn’t and he and the rest of college football know it. It was Mora’s biggest let down when Haden let him go.
Ed O was a loose cannon of the first order and showed it too many times behind the scenes. He was a great recruiter and DL coach and helped USC a lot. But in football circles, he has a definite ceiling and his current position shows that.
EO makes a great bowl of gumbo. And that’s what he would have made of the USC HCing job – a bowl of gumbo. But he wouldn’t have been worse than Sark, so Haden still struck out.
‘gumbo’ that’s good and yeah Mora saw what was there – he (Mora) so hated to see Big Ed split.
Mora hated to see Kiffin go and I’m sure hated to see Sark go as well.
Those guys were my favorites.
SoCal is better off with a coach without their egos who can understand the overwhelming talent advantage he has and go with what works. As to the hiring of Sark and firing of Kiffin, lack of institutional control and lack of class.
You had me until your “…lack of institutional control…” if ny that you mean the death march since PC left in 2010 you’re right and while we’re at it since ’74 what’s different (save for Harrick) in over 40 years?
Loose cannon unlike Sark & Kiffin?
Neither Sark nor Kiffin are similar to EO as people and didn’t cause remotely similar problems, yet you don’t even know that. Get some sources so you won’t look so stupid.
Ok what’s this Sander’s logic? If everyone gets the same pay and we’ll all get the same result?
Haden made an awful choice is selecting Sarkisian no different from the same who’ve picked for ‘The Princess’ since Holtz left as well as MI since Schembechler.
If WA had major donors they’d get better coaches and better coaches means better athletes.
yes
Apparently the school thought so. And just looking at his credentials he actually could ask for more.
wolfman, give credit where it’s DUE!! Paddy Boy O’Hadden make a DYNASTY out of Sand Box Volleyball AND introduced the Hot Box Burritos!! legendary stuff!!
#ThinkingOutOfTheBox
I don’t think some alumni have ever been afraid to grossly overpay for something of questionable value if it might make them look cool. Just look at SoCal’s academic rankings compared to their tuition.
Remember, money doesn’t care who it belongs to.
It’s entirely possible that Trump audited Emperor Garrett’s bozo u $5,000 seminar: “How to really tick off the judiciary and rules committee’s and maximize program sanctions and adverse court decisions.”
Other then hiring coaches, I’m not exactly sure what the athletic director’s position entails, and Pat Haden gets a “C” grade in that department.
Very generous C.
Try comparing ADs at public schools v private, ADs with elite athletic programs v also rans.
The bozo u FB and basketball program are certainly elite – like a Yugo, an elite failure.
Mr. Alvarado, you think too much of yourself and your take, your smear, of Coach O is dead wrong. “The rest of college football know it.” The H”ll you say. Try this on: Thurs Arizona 38-31 W !!
@ ND 14-10 L Utah 19-3 W !! Fri OSU 41-14 W !! @ Cal 62-28 W !! #4 Stanford 20-17 W !! @ Colotrado 47-29 W !! #22 UCLA 35-14 L. Five minutes after the Colorado game, Haden gives Ed O a 5 year Head Coaching contract, each Asssistant 3 years. The PLAYERS BECOME BELIEVERS. UCLA IS CRUSHED. Uko, Pullard, Tavai, Graf, Martin, Grimbal, Telfer, stay on for one more year……Ed O has jr Heidari, jr Leonard Williams, jr Agholor, jr Vainuku, soph Sui Cravens, soph Stephen Mitchell, soph Darius Rodgers, jr Victor Blackwell, soph Su’a Cravens, soph Justin Davis, soph Khliel Rodgers, jr Max Tuerk, jr Javarious Allen, sr Josh Shaw, sr Tre Madden, sr Lamar Dawson and Jr Cody Kessler to wear the Cardinal and Gold and pursue the 2014 BCS National Championship…….Ed O was made Assistant Head Coach by Pete Carroll in 2003, the year before Ed O took the Head Coaching job at U Miss…….Senor Alvarado, Jack B, do you catch the gist ? Or am I looking at two BIGOTS, who refuse to give Coach O his credit due, just as Orange County BIGOTRY prevented Arkansas’s undefeated freshman QB Mitch Mustain from ever given a chance at Troy……. Miss State offered Coach O the Defensive Coordinator position this past winter. Les Miles and LSU fans are big time impressed with Coach O. LSU 2016 recruiting class ranked Number One with 19 signed up….. .
Get over yourself.
Ed O’s where he belongs and stuck behind better DCs as a DL coach recruiter-supreme. Fact. He’ll never be the HC at another big-time school, unless he convinces the AD that boxes of cookies will win him games.
If that’s too much for you to swallow, buy yourself a box of cookies as a tribute to EO, the guy who simply earned too many enemies in HH the hard (and stupid) way. Another fact.
And by the way, his gumbo isn’t that good. I’ve had better out of the can, even the low sodium variety.
Mushy knows all, just ask him!
Mr. 47 you are entirely correct and it’s about time a fan stuck up for Coach O.
Regardless of bozo u losses to UCLA and ND, Coach O saved bozo u FB following the Kiffy airport execution.
It’s hilarious that O was deemed unfit for HC employment while an Alky was considered the superior candidate – remember the Boston Massacre.
As for Commie SUCC and Mushy, they’re two peas at the bottom of a empty mackerel barrel.
The fact that any athletic director makes that kind of money is absurd. Especially when the results of your flagship program football has performed as it has
Makes perfect sense to the academics who run the show. Pay someone not qualified huge money and flops, then hires a head coach on the cheap who at best is a MWC level coach. Will Lynn Swann be next in line in taking the easy money and oversee a mediocre football program?
Based on past performance?
If he brings in 5 million more dollars a year than the other guys, then yes, absolutely. You forget that ADs at USC are primarily fund-raisers.