Charlie Strong

[Brad]

3 minutes ago, usfbullrider said:

Why would you want to keep the assistants who failed you at Texas.   I'm sure assistant pool is to hire better ones.   Special teams was an issue at Texas.   I don't see him keeping most of his guys but I guess this is what a head coach decides.

Just in case

10mChris Low‏ @ClowESPN

Charlie Strong would like to take most of his staff from Texas with him to South Florida, including offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert.

[ajusf16]

27 minutes ago, ToroDeFuego said:

Does appear to be final. Who's the first recruit? Step on up!

First recruit should be Marlon Mack

[Thebullsfan]

We like TJ he can stay

[SoFlo All Day]

Trading in the bus for the #CharlieTrain 

Bulls Unite!!

[OncomingStorm]

Let's make this team Harder, Better, Faster, STRONGer

[Brad]

 

 

6mChris Low‏ @ClowESPN

Known Charlie Strong for nearly 20 years. Timing, fit and circumstances can be everything with head coaching jobs. Bet he cleans up at USF.

[Flowers4Heisman]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2014/01/13/charlie-strong-contract-texas/4455069/

The University of Texas' new football coach, Charlie Strong, will be paid $5 million for the 2014 season and the university will pay Strong's $4.375 million buyout to Louisville, according to financial terms approved Monday by the university system's board of regents.

It was not immediately clear whether Texas would also be covering the income taxes associated with the buyout, but even without that, Strong's $9.375 million in total compensation for 2014 will be the largest one-year amount paid to a public-school athletics coach since USA TODAY Sports began tracking pay of football and men's basketball coaches in 2006.

Strong's contract with Texas is for five years, and it includes guaranteed pay increases of at least $100,000 each year.

The deal means that in 2014 there will be at least three football coaches with recurring annual compensation of at least $5 million — Strong, Alabama's Nick Saban and Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin. There were two such coaches during the 2013 season: Saban and Texas' former coach, Mack Brown; Brown was due to have been paid $5.5 million in 2014.

Strong's term sheet also lists a variety of perks, including:

• 20 hours of airplane flight time. 
• @ USF --airplane flight time replaced by time on Judy's sailboat.
• A suite for home football games, plus six football season tickets — both for Strong's personal use.
• Four season tickets for other men's sports and for women's sports.
• Memberships in the UT Golf Club and two social/dining clubs.
• Having his wife's travel expenses paid when she travels to athletic events, development and official entertainment and other business activities.

 

If Strong is fired without cause, Texas will owe him an amount equal to total pay remaining on the contract, subject to Strong's obligation to offset up to half of that amount with income from subsequent employment. So, if Texas were fire Strong after one season, it would owe him $21 million, up to half of which could be offset.

If Strong terminates the contract without cause, he will owe Texas an amount equal to the total compensation that Texas will be obligated to pay any of his assistant coaches who remain employed by Texas 60 days after Strong terminates.

Strong will be able to earn $900,000 in bonuses during the 2014 season, and his bonus maximum will rise slightly each season because a bonus based on the team's final national ranking is a percentage of his annual compensation. Of the potential $900,000 or more in bonuses, $150,000 is related to the team's academic performance.

[Brad]

 

 

Brett Kean‏ @bkeanqb4

And I said, If you Skrong then we all Skrong.... #GoBurrs

[usfbullrider]

If that report is true I'm thinking Taggart has already locked down commitments from most of our staff to go to Oregon.   We may be starting fresh.

[chrisdashley]

Darth McMurphy has spoken.