Solich contract breakdown
Base Salary 330,000
Radio/TV compensation 70,000
SUV Rental/Golf Membership 10,000
Incentive Package Maximum 215,000
Total Package Value 625,000
Considering the cost of living in Athens, I'm guessing this stretches even farther.
According to a press release dating back to November of 2003, OUr man Frank made a bounty on top of what he currently makes at Ohio. "He was paid an
annual base salary of $321,260, with another
$518,000 in guaranteed supplemental compensation."
Total Guaranteed Package Value (Before Bowl and Big 12 Championship compensation):
$839,260
Total Guaranteed Package Value Adjusted for Inflation (Using CP Index '03-'10):
$996,343.02
Let me start by saying Frank Solich is the BEST case scenario Ohio University football fans could have asked for as a head football coach... and we got him at day after Thanksgiving prices. I would go further to say the whole mess was a miracle. Don't let these past 5 years ruin your sound judgement. Do not be that weak Ohio State type of fan that will never be happy, never satisfied, never uses perspective. We were awful and there was no reason to be hopeful!
Even in the best case scenario where Ohio makes both the MAC championship and Bowl game, Solich is making just 63% of what he was paid (guaranteed) when he was asked to leave Lincoln. Economic times or no economic times, this man is over-qualified for this job and this pay scale.
So insert the Love comments or any art professor/ Post comments here and I will respond. Yes were playing for the Joe Schmo Bowl after winning the Joe the Plumber Conference Championship, but that's what we're tied to, and so is Frank. This has not changed and it probably never will unless OU leaves the MAC. So by "Real Bowl" you must mean a BCS bowl. Only the Tostitos, Orange, and Sugar Bowl have at-large tie ins.
That means Ohio University must be one of the top three teams out of 114 not to win a Big Six conference to get into these "Real Bowls". Well that might be a reasonable expectation if Frank Solich was one of the top 3 highest paid coaches in college football instead of the 4th highest paid coach in the MAC. He has a salary that's less than half of his Big 6 peers.
As far as scheduling goes, that's what he's paid to do. It's safe to say a respectable university, Nebraska, used sound judgement in the hiring and developing of Frank. And it's safe to say that university trusted his judgement enough to pay him a million a year. I too trust he knows what he's doing when he brings in the Ragin' Cajun's. I would argue that a lesser university asking for Solich's expertise would be inclined to pay him more than was he was paid at his Big 12 job. Imagine if the CEO of Apple came to work at Tractor Supply as the CEO and took a 40% pay cut. Is the grass really always green on the other side for you cholo's?
Moral of the story is... if you want to come on here and try and take away from what Frank has done for this University, establish a unit price first. What are you willing to pay per win ($$$/games won)? What are you willing to pay per BCS home opponent ($$$$/Purdue)? If you want to talk dollars talk dollars.
Some of you people remind me of my time at Best Buy as a TV salesman. (Enter middle-aged man and wife) "We want a really good TV, it doesn't have to be huge, but it has to be as good as Sony but not at the Sony price though, "we're on a budget"." You know what that couple always walked away with? Insignia. Insignia is not as good as Sony.
Go hug a tree if you're not down with Frank.
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