Shula's salary almost doubles

[Noah.Dreams]

Shula's big payday - Wednesday, November 30, 2005

STEVE KIRK - BHM News staff writer

TUSCALOOSA - Alabama football coach Mike Shula is expected to be paid $1.4 million to $1.5 million a year for five years under a new contract, sources have told The News.

The new contract could be final and announced around the time of the Crimson Tide's probable Jan. 2 bowl game, the sources said. Shula has indicated to UA officials that he'd prefer to wait until after the game.

The contract first must be approved by the University of Alabama's board of trustees' compensation committee.

The third-year coach's salary will rank in the top half among Southeastern Conference football coaches and will almost double Shula's current $900,000 deal.

Shula's raise will end a short-lived era in Alabama athletics.

For the first time ever, the men's basketball coach was the highest-paid employee in the department. Mark Gottfried was granted a new six-year contract this summer worth $1million annually.

UA extended Shula's current contract in June by one year through the 2009 season, but without a pay increase. Shula is tied for the ninth-highest football salary in the 12-member SEC. But with the raise he will pass Mississippi State's Sylvester Croom ($900,000), Ole Miss' Ed Orgeron ($1 million), South Carolina's Steve Spurrier ($1.25 million) and LSU's Les Miles ($1.25 million), pending any raises they might receive.


Leading SEC salaries:


The SEC's leading salaries include Tennessee's Phillip Fulmer ($2.05 million), Auburn's Tommy Tuberville ($2 million), Florida's Urban Meyer ($2 million), Georgia's Mark Richt ($1.8 million) and Arkansas' Houston Nutt ($1.5 million).

Tuberville's contract - $18.2 million over seven years - will make him the league's highest-paid coach starting next year. His contract pays him $2 million this season and includes a $200,000 raise each year.

Shula led Alabama to a 9-0 start and a No. 3 ranking in the Bowl Championship Series, although season ending losses to LSU and Auburn knocked the Crimson Tide to No. 14 in the AP poll, out of contention for a BCS bowl and into a likely berth in the Jan. 2 Cotton Bowl against Texas Tech.

Despite a 19-17 coaching record, Shula's recruiting efforts have been praised by Athletics Director Mal Moore, who points to the effects of NCAA probation that Shula inherited. Alabama had only 66 players on its roster this season that were given initial scholarships. The NCAA allows 85 for Division I-A schools.

Actions off the field also have won Shula respect from Witt, Moore and the trustees. When Moore met with Shula earlier this year, Shula told him he wasn't interested in a raise after his 6-6 season in 2004. Shula said he merely wanted time for him and his assistants to build the program's talent level through recruiting. He also asked for a financial bump for his staff. All 12 members of Shula's support staff, including his assistant coaches, received raises in the summer.

Shula is not expected to initiate any changes on his staff this offseason.

[Noah.Dreams]

Funny thing, tho.... oooh, nevermind!

[Jay Bee]

Excellent news! I think he should get a lifetime contract!!

WDE!
jj

[ScreamingTiger]

Excellent news! I think he should get a lifetime contract!!

WDE!
jj
I'm all for that!

I don't see why they even bothered..:confused:..not like anyone else wants him :o

[Noah.Dreams]

Excellent news! I think he should get a lifetime contract!!

WDE!
jj

Even tho it's for completely different reasons, at least we agree on something.

[WDavE]

I saw this on another board....

recruiting updates


Hi son, this is Coach Shula and I just got a new five years contract.

Hi son, this is Coach Tuberville and Shula just got five more years.

[jneesy]

you better get your jabs in now....the old bama is just around the corner

put tubbles in shulas situation does he win 9 games???????

does he win any??????

the best explanation i've seen about the job shula has done is on cfn

http://www.collegefootballnews.com/2005/Columnists/MZ/MondayMorningQuarterback.htm

and for the record i hope they do give him a lifetime contract....i can think of no one else i would rather have as the head football coach at the university of alabama

so dave my freind.....you can go suck a root

[Noah.Dreams]

Jneesy - I love your signature quote. Here's another of my favorites....

William Wallace: I AM William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my country men, here, in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?

Soldier: Against that? No, we'll run, and we'll live.

William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take away our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!

[crimsonnation713]

Excellent news! I think he should get a lifetime contract!!

WDE!
jj


be careful what ya wish for jb...... :D

[WDavE]

you better get your jabs in now....the old bama is just around the corner

put tubbles in shulas situation does he win 9 games???????

does he win any??????

the best explanation i've seen about the job shula has done is on cfn

http://www.collegefootballnews.com/2005/Columnists/MZ/MondayMorningQuarterback.htm

and for the record i hope they do give him a lifetime contract....i can think of no one else i would rather have as the head football coach at the university of alabama

so dave my freind.....you can go suck a root

You seem to forget Auburn in the year 2000. CTT took over a program in 1999 that was in shambles. Much like the Alabama gig of 2003. We were picked last or next to last in the preseason. The next year we're in the Championship game.
By the way, the best overall SEC record since 2000 doesn't belong to Georgia, Tenn., LSU nor Alabama. So, my fear factor is very low....

Current streaks
2 in a row versus Georgia
4 in a row versus Bama
3 in a row versus Tenn.

Got to work on that LSU streak some....



I can agree with one part of your retort though. I can't think of anybody else I'd rather have as head coach of Alabama either...

The root comment hurt until I remembeed it came from a Crimson dingleberry....Then laughter came in waves.... :)

[IH8Orange]

You seem to forget Auburn in the year 2000. CTT took over a program in 1999 that was in shambles. Much like the Alabama gig of 2003. We were picked last or next to last in the preseason. The next year we're in the Championship game.
By the way, the best overall SEC record since 2000 doesn't belong to Georgia, Tenn., LSU nor Alabama. So, my fear factor is very low....

Current streaks
2 in a row versus Georgia
4 in a row versus Bama
3 in a row versus Tenn.

Got to work on that LSU streak some....



I can agree with one part of your retort though. I can't think of anybody else I'd rather have as head coach of Alabama either...

The root comment hurt until I remembeed it came from a Crimson dingleberry....Then laughter came in waves.... :)

Be careful with Tubbs. He might pu$$y out like he did at Ole Miss. Your head coach has the smallest ba!!s he can't even tell his own team he is leaving them. But hey, Auburn doesn't care about how they treat other people or how they are viewed, just as long as they win, right?

[WDavE]

Be careful with Tubbs. He might pu$$y out like he did at Ole Miss. Your head coach has the smallest ba!!s he can't even tell his own team he is leaving them. But hey, Auburn doesn't care about how they treat other people or how they are viewed, just as long as they win, right?

Your telling this to someone who knew Bear Bryant and was at the dinner the same night Price had his drunken encounter of the ugly stripper kind...

Thx for the advice.... File 13 if you please....

here is another view on the raise.

Does Shula raise the bar, merit a raise?
Thursday, December 01, 2005
So many hires have blown up in their faces, from Mike DuBose to Dennis Franchione to Mike Price. Can you blame University of Alabama officials for being ecstatic over having Mike Shula sit in that corner office?

If he had done nothing else for the past two years, it would be enough that Shula has done nothing to embarrass the school. Not only has there not been even the slightest hint of impropriety in his personal life, but unlike Fran and Price and a certain basketball coach, Shula has not gone to his superiors demanding anything for himself (something Fran and Price apparently started doing from the day each got the Alabama job).

From all indications, all Shula has done is accept the job as it was offered - originally five years at $900,000 per year - and expect both sides to honor that original agreement. In the new economics of athletics, where contracts seem to become out of date from the date they are signed, Shula appears to be so low maintenance that it's causing his bosses to throw money at him.




Wednesday, The Birmingham News reported that Alabama officials want to reward Shula with a raise, bumping his compensation to somewhere between $1.4 and $1.5 million a year for, at the very least, five additional years.

It's an offer that hasn't gone to the school president or the board of trustees yet, an offer that Shula - in typical Shula style - would prefer not to talk about until after the bowl game.

But it is an increase that will be debated. Alabama does not need to offer Shula more money. It's not like the school was in imminent danger of losing Shula. He is hardly one of the hot coaches in the country whose name keeps coming up in association with other jobs.

It could be argued that a raise for Shula is more about the arrogance of the University of Alabama. Many of the power brokers who make such decisions feel the job of head football coach should not be a job that pays in the bottom half of the conference, that being the head coach at Alabama should carry some status nationwide, and the easiest barometer of status in this country is money.

It could be argued that Shula's success is as much a product of the times as his coaching ability. Expectations - realistic expectations - for Alabama football are at an all-time low. And this year, the quality of play across the board within the conference (only six bowl-eligible teams) has been below typical SEC standards.

Alabama's strength of schedule this season ranked 55th out of 119 Division I-A schools (seventh in the SEC), partly due to the SEC's downturn and partly done intentionally by Athletics Director Mal Moore, who pushed back non-conference games against quality opponents (Penn State) in order to create a more winnable schedule for a program he knew would struggle.

On the field, Shula's offense - and it is his offense; he is his own offensive coordinator and play-caller - has left much to be desired. In terms of X's and O's, Shula gets a C for being average. Very average.

And yet, Shula represents the program well. His bosses feel like he's recruiting exceptionally well. And there is no arguing that the program is showing significant progress in terms of wins and losses, regardless of the circumstance.

Shula is a nice guy, and it's always nice to see nice guys rewarded.

Now, it's up to the nice guy to prove nice guys can finish first.

[Noah.Dreams]

It could be argued that a raise for Shula is more about the arrogance of the University of Alabama. Many of the power brokers who make such decisions feel the job of head football coach should not be a job that pays in the bottom half of the conference, that being the head coach at Alabama should carry some status nationwide, and the easiest barometer of status in this country is money.

Now this is something that I'd agree with. My only problem with Shula's contract is it should've been for 10 years.

[AUChamps]

Now this is something that I'd agree with. My only problem with Shula's contract is it should've been for 10 years.
O RLY?

Brilliant Quote, oh how the world changes in 1 year!

[TigerFanatic]

buahahahaha