Topic: Most underpaid coaches in college football

[jdonaccbus]

I didn't read the article. But cost of living in Huntington is far better than in some areas.

[muherd34]

Poor guy is getting paid $1m(with bonuses) a year to win 7-9 games with no Conference championships.  Give me a break, I like Huff, but this writer is way off base on this article.  We "fired" the last guy for doing the exact same thing.  Yes I know he is only in year 3, but the fact remains we are exactly where we were with the last administration except with a ND and VT win.

[whf]

I didn't read the article. But cost of living in Huntington is far better than in some areas.

Understand your point of view, but I think we must take market value into consideration; just like any other industry. 

And I think "image" is improved through Huff's different approach to dialogue, promotion, and including the whole athletic program and process in his language.  I feel that losing Huff will be harder to replace in who he is, more than how he coaches and how many games he wins.  Plain and simple, I think he was ready for a D1 head coaching job; in the business sense, he "gets it, and gets it done" off the field too.

[svherd]

Poor guy is getting paid $1m(with bonuses) a year to win 7-9 games with no Conference championships.  Give me a break, I like Huff, but this writer is way off base on this article.  We "fired" the last guy for doing the exact same thing.  Yes I know he is only in year 3, but the fact remains we are exactly where we were with the last administration except with a ND and VT win.

Huff has made the program better. How it functions, overall talent level, etc. The team is truly a team, no parking lot fights, no police blotter issues (or very few??), the kids play hard and believe in each other. Things that are under the surface but make for a better program. I am not sold 100% on the man, and I don't care for our OC, but he has made this program better.

We can't forget his schedules week in and week out are more difficult as well. The SB is much better than CDOA.

[ThunderValley]

Kentucky is paying their football coach 9M per year and they know he will never win the SEC.
Huff has a great chance to win SBC for his pay, so why are we complaining?

[wburgherdfan]

Kentucky is paying their football coach 9M per year and they know he will never win the SEC.
Huff has a great chance to win SBC for his pay, so why are we complaining?

Mark Stoops may have the best job in America. If he ever left UK it wouldn't be for money. If I were him I'd ride that gravy train for as long as possible, then retire a happy man.

[HerdEcon]

Kentucky is paying their football coach 9M per year and they know he will never win the SEC.
Huff has a great chance to win SBC for his pay, so why are we complaining?

Are you sure UK fans "know" Mark Stoops will never win the SEC at Kentucky?  I think you are correct that he will never win the SEC at Kentucky but I'm not sure the UK fans know that.  They seem a bit delusional to me.

[elginherd]

Huff has made the program better. How it functions, overall talent level, etc. The team is truly a team, no parking lot fights, no police blotter issues (or very few??), the kids play hard and believe in each other. Things that are under the surface but make for a better program. I am not sold 100% on the man, and I don't care for our OC, but he has made this program better.

We can't forget his schedules week in and week out are more difficult as well. The SB is much better than CDOA.

Understand your point of view, but I think we must take market value into consideration; just like any other industry. 

And I think "image" is improved through Huff's different approach to dialogue, promotion, and including the whole athletic program and process in his language.  I feel that losing Huff will be harder to replace in who he is, more than how he coaches and how many games he wins.  Plain and simple, I think he was ready for a D1 head coaching job; in the business sense, he "gets it, and gets it done" off the field too.

Well said, whf.

I beiieve that you have a good point, also SVherd.

[Lord Haw-Haw]

Mr. Huff and his agent are obviously salivating about the sentiment expressed in this article.

[muherd34]

Huff has made the program better. How it functions, overall talent level, etc. The team is truly a team, no parking lot fights, no police blotter issues (or very few??), the kids play hard and believe in each other. Things that are under the surface but make for a better program. I am not sold 100% on the man, and I don't care for our OC, but he has made this program better.

We can't forget his schedules week in and week out are more difficult as well. The SB is much better than CDOA.

Can't argue that he has helped the health of our program and added stability inside the locker room when needed.  Just saying that "on the field" results have been the same.  Regardless of what conference affiliation we are apart of, the main goal is championships.

[herdloyal]

Huff won?t leave because of some article by a nobody reporter. Huff leaving will be all about successful leading Marshall football to winning championships!

[Garbanjo]

Can't argue that he has helped the health of our program and added stability inside the locker room when needed.  Just saying that "on the field" results have been the same.  Regardless of what conference affiliation we are apart of, the main goal is championships.

Huff is marginally better than Doc at this stage

And for the record Doc was done the last 2-3 years of his tenure so I certainly am not a "Doc guy"

I'm happy with how things are going this year but win a conference title and you'll get respect

Go Herd!

[MUther]

Can't argue that he has helped the health of our program and added stability inside the locker room when needed.  Just saying that "on the field" results have been the same.  Regardless of what conference affiliation we are apart of, the main goal is championships.

They aren't the same.  Huff is facing more like what Snyder faced in schedule strength.  Win total isn't the measurement.  It matters who you're playing.  Quality over quantity.  Doc wasn't a winner at all till CUSA got watered down with terrible teams and Huff definitely has the better record vs better competition in both their first three years.  He wins one more game and he ties Doc in his third year win total, 1/3 the way through the season, with two firsts in the modern football era just this season.  ECU win at their place and a VT win.

If basketball had even one major-team top 50 win last year a whole lot more people would have been happy with the 24 wins.  But we were all quantity and no quality wins.  Unlike basketball, the SBC is a big step up in football, top to bottom. 

[HerdEcon]

Comparing pre-transfer portal and pre-NIL coaches to post transfer portal and post NIL coaches is like comparing apples to space shuttles.  The landscape of college football is not near the same post portal and NIL.

Doc is going and I'm glad of it.  Huff deserves to be and should be measured according to modern standards, not measured by standards of a bygone era.  Huff is the first HC of a new era of college football at Marshall.