I keep thinking everyone is missing the elephant in the room-assistant coach salaries. ... I wonder if they are just satisfied where they are, are staying with Frank with the understanding that he will take a great job if offered, or are not able to find something somewhere else. While high by most standards in the workplace, MAC coaches are near the bottom of the barrel -salary wise. ...
Salary is one thing, but job stability is attractive, too. I doubt there is an assistant coach in the MAC with longer time at the same school than Germano, and few with more than guys like Gdowski, Burrows, Lightner and Albin. If instead of, say, $80,000, they get a gig for $100,000, but get fired after a year or two, and have to move again, and move their kids to another school, and another part of the country, have they really gotten a better deal?
Assistant coaches at Ohio can be reasonably confidant that they will still have this job for awhile in the future, so thus far at least, the lower salaries have been sufficient to retain good coaches.