Looks like ECU pays their coach more, along with Wake Forest...although I guess Tom hasn't don't anything yet, but we'll get there are far as wins go.

http://www.coacheshotseat.com/SalariesContracts.htm

9/27/2008 7:26:07 AM

Tom is way above caring more about his pay on his contract than the team he puts on the field

9/27/2008 7:48:10 AM

ecu and wake HAVE to pay their coaches or they'll leave. Hell.. wait till Notre Dame drives a truck load of money to Skips house and see how long it takes him to bolt greenville. TOB knows he can get good recruits here with the facilities and the fan base that shows up win or lose.

9/27/2008 8:25:21 AM

We gave him a good raise when he moved down here as well as an opportunity for the recruits. As he does more here, he'll start getting more money.

9/27/2008 9:15:31 AM

TOB has an incentive based contract. If he gets us to a bowl he'll see a big spike in pay, and if he gets us to a BCS bowl his pay would be pretty large. I like the idea of this. It gets coaches to try harder and they get paid the way they should based on results. I'm sure he also is probably similar to USF's Jim Leavitt and VT's Frank Beamer in that he'd rather the athletic department use the money that he probably deserves to be paid to pay and hold on to good assistant coaches. Why do you think Bud Foster hasn't left VT yet? He could have easily gone on to become a head coach a long time ago, but he's getting paid well and he's also the favorite to take over when Beamer decides to hang it up.

9/27/2008 9:36:59 AM

I hope he sees them soon, because there's really no reason he should be making less money than Jeff Jagodzinski

9/27/2008 10:21:04 AM

someone remind me why kirk ferentz gets paid so damn much? i don't recall being much of anything recently

9/27/2008 10:45:19 AM

^ Iowa was really good a few years ago (when they had that QB Banks or whatever his name was) and thus they ponied up the cash and a long contract to keep Ferentz around. Now that they aren't as great, he looks overpaid.

9/27/2008 10:53:33 AM

Quote :

"Tom hasn't don't anything"

damn right

9/27/2008 10:55:51 AM

this site is interesting. Good job.

9/27/2008 12:24:14 PM

It's even spelled correctly in the link, dumbass.

9/27/2008 12:30:15 PM

Quote :

"facilities"

9/27/2008 1:05:51 PM

looks like we got a good deal for coach

9/27/2008 1:13:08 PM

If you click the link on Tom O'Brien's name they have our predicted win chart for this season...

Date	Opponent	Location	2008 CHS Prediction	Result
8/28/08	at South Carolina	Columbia, SC	L
9/06/08	William & Mary	Raleigh, NC	W
9/13/08	at Clemson	Clemson, SC	L
9/20/08	East Carolina	Raleigh, NC	W
9/27/08	South Florida	Raleigh, NC	W
10/04/08	Boston College	Raleigh, NC	W
10/16/08	Florida State	Raleigh, NC	W
10/25/08	at Maryland	College Park, MD	L
11/08/08	at Duke	Durham, NC	W
11/15/08	Wake Forest	Raleigh, NC	W
11/22/08	at North Carolina	Chapel Hill, NC	L
11/29/08	Miami	Raleigh, NC	W
	Coaches Hot Seat Prediction		8-4

[Edited on September 27, 2008 at 1:22 PM. Reason : .]

9/27/2008 1:21:26 PM

I'll take it.. 8-4 (5-3) would be a great season. I still think 6-6 will be a good season for us
though.

I also thought JoPa only made like $600,000 or somethin. Guess he got a raise recently



[Edited on September 27, 2008 at 1:31 PM. Reason : ~]

9/27/2008 1:28:38 PM

^^somebody drank some red koolaid before making that chart (minus the unc loss)

although it is spot on so far and i'll take that record fo' sho

[Edited on September 27, 2008 at 1:30 PM. Reason : .]

9/27/2008 1:30:03 PM

let's give him a raise, don't want him to herb us

9/27/2008 10:42:06 PM

Nah, looks like that chart was pre-injury. The ACC is fucking terrible this year and wide open. I can see how he thought that record might be plausible.

9/27/2008 10:43:25 PM

the acc is terrible which makes obrien's egg laying so much more shitty

9/27/2008 10:46:05 PM

They gave the AD an award for excellence. Don't see why they wouldn't give TOB a fat raise after a few sub .500 seasons.

[Edited on September 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM. Reason : -]

9/27/2008 10:46:45 PM

are you cereal?

did they really give fowler a bonus?

fucking a i want that job, i can suck and get a bonus

9/27/2008 10:50:11 PM

I don't know if he got a bonus, but he certainly got an award:

http://tinyurl.com/4gb3w7

9/27/2008 10:52:47 PM

well, im 15% behind my sales budget this year and i want an award

9/27/2008 10:57:39 PM

here is an award for having a volleyball coach that never won an ACC game. woot!

9/27/2008 11:00:24 PM

Quote :

"If you click the link on Tom O'Brien's name they have our predicted win chart for this season..."

if you think that's good, click on Beamer's name. They had him going undefeated in 2008

9/27/2008 11:01:32 PM

ill take beamer, yall can have obrien

9/27/2008 11:13:10 PM

Seriously already hating on O'Brien???

9/28/2008 12:37:39 AM

if the team's good TOB can make a whole lot of money. i think it's fair.

i'm not mad that they're bad, just saying incentive based contracts like he has are legit.

9/28/2008 1:01:28 AM

Poor Tom. How will he get by on only $1.1 million per year?

9/28/2008 2:18:47 PM