Nobody gets into college coaching (which ruins your marriage and family life and starts with a low-paying position) for the money. They do it because they cannot imagine being happy away from football.
When a coach appears to have talent and a future as a head coach, he starts to get paid well by normal standards, and he starts to get lucrative offers from other schools. If Mizzou offers him $4.5 million, he knows someone else is going to offer $4.6, and he probably has already turned down $4.4.
Unless he had the mentality of a loser, he's confident he's going to keep rising, keep getting better opportiunties, and his goal becomes landing a destination job--a school that recruits 5 stars and wins national championships, maybe his alma mater if he's sentimental. NONE OF THESE GUYS IS LOOKING TO CASH OUT. They all want to stay in the game and make it to the final table.
The last coach in ANY major sport to use Mizzou as a stepping stone was Dan Devine and he didn't come here for that reason. The only head football coach who has ever come to Mizzou thinking it would be a stepping stone was Bob Stull, and boy was he wrong. I would argue everyone else in my lifetime saw it as a destination job because it was their alma mater (Devine, Odom, Woody) or because they had a weird idea of a destination job (Pinkel), or else they came to Mizzou because they were damaged goods looking to land anywhere (Uncle Larry, Powers). (Onofrio did not come here; he was already here).
We have to come to grips with this truth: No up-and-comer dreams of coaching at a middling SEC school that has never won a national championship, that does not recruit nationally, that has a weak in-state recruiting base, that has fickle fans, and that has not been a stepping stone to a better job at anytime in the last half century.
Our best hope is an up-and-comer with strong Missouri ties. Someone like CM in basketball or BO in football. That doesn't mean BO is the answer, but if you think we can land an elite-level up-and-comer by opening up the check book, you don't realize how these guys think, what they want, how careful most of them are about charting their path, or how many other opportunities they have at places that ARE stepping stone jobs.
It's not like hiring away a salesman from the other car dealership in town, who will gladly jump for a big raise. It's more like trying to convince Ariana Grande to marry you. Mizzou is Pete Davidson. She knows she will have better options, 100% for sure.
When a coach appears to have talent and a future as a head coach, he starts to get paid well by normal standards, and he starts to get lucrative offers from other schools. If Mizzou offers him $4.5 million, he knows someone else is going to offer $4.6, and he probably has already turned down $4.4.
Unless he had the mentality of a loser, he's confident he's going to keep rising, keep getting better opportiunties, and his goal becomes landing a destination job--a school that recruits 5 stars and wins national championships, maybe his alma mater if he's sentimental. NONE OF THESE GUYS IS LOOKING TO CASH OUT. They all want to stay in the game and make it to the final table.
The last coach in ANY major sport to use Mizzou as a stepping stone was Dan Devine and he didn't come here for that reason. The only head football coach who has ever come to Mizzou thinking it would be a stepping stone was Bob Stull, and boy was he wrong. I would argue everyone else in my lifetime saw it as a destination job because it was their alma mater (Devine, Odom, Woody) or because they had a weird idea of a destination job (Pinkel), or else they came to Mizzou because they were damaged goods looking to land anywhere (Uncle Larry, Powers). (Onofrio did not come here; he was already here).
We have to come to grips with this truth: No up-and-comer dreams of coaching at a middling SEC school that has never won a national championship, that does not recruit nationally, that has a weak in-state recruiting base, that has fickle fans, and that has not been a stepping stone to a better job at anytime in the last half century.
Our best hope is an up-and-comer with strong Missouri ties. Someone like CM in basketball or BO in football. That doesn't mean BO is the answer, but if you think we can land an elite-level up-and-comer by opening up the check book, you don't realize how these guys think, what they want, how careful most of them are about charting their path, or how many other opportunities they have at places that ARE stepping stone jobs.
It's not like hiring away a salesman from the other car dealership in town, who will gladly jump for a big raise. It's more like trying to convince Ariana Grande to marry you. Mizzou is Pete Davidson. She knows she will have better options, 100% for sure.
