Is UL Athletics Broke?

[CajunVic]

Each is a pretty good suggestion why the HFC for Louisiana is CMD as opposed to some other unrelated but never considered or qualified coach . . . qualified being tied solely to compensation.

[Big Poppa]

Sounds like a question for Ms B. Unless you define who “we” is? Don’t know are y’all broke?

[cajun_lannister]

If UL is broke, then why did they not politic to become part of the Louisiana weed market that UBR & Southern now control?

UL is paying that basketball coach close to a million dollars. Don't want to hear ____ about being broke

[cajun_lannister]

I'm suggesting the university is taking advantage of the coaching change to direct every available dime towards a new stadium.

Can you imagine Maggard trying to get donations after the last 2 weeks. He might get laughed out the room.

[CajunVic]

That would never happen in a remodeled Louisiana stadium . . .

[CajunRage]

Besides the fact that such money was never really available. Because of the acceptance of that much higher external offer, there will never be available hard evidence one way or the other if that amount of money was ever available. It has been widely offered here that the proposed $1,200,000 in raise had external funding (and I buy that) however there has been absolutely no evidence that the $1,250,000 (difference between the other $2,000,000 and what was paid to CMD was available. I have suggested not and that at $750,001, Louisiana was broke.

Unfortunately, hiring and firing of coaches in big boy football is never something where you can just "look at the numbers". You look at the situation at hand and get a handshake deal from a booster for the money you need. I'm led to believe that no booster was willing to fork over any more for CMD and that's why he's making 750k. If Dr. M would have taken some time to find a good candidate AND made the effort to sell his hire, he could have convinced boosters to come up with the difference and we'd be paying 7 figures for a coach. To the question of is UL athletics broke? It's not a simple yes or no. Oklahoma State was "broke" until T Boone decided to bring in the dumptruck of cash.

[RedTails]

Is UL Athletics Broke? SHOW ME THE MONEY

Why is this being asked on a forum of supporters already donating?

We don’t get paid $400,000 per year to answer that or to fix it.

[JayWalker]

So now you are going to tell me how to fan?


That is one of the reasons why we spent $750,000 on a new coach and not $3,200,000 to retain the old one.

At $750,001, we would have been broke and we are not allowed to be broke.

All of the other information gives insight why the level of broke was what it was at the time CMD was hired.

Mike's salary is a competitive salary with coaches in the Sun Belt. It's just 100,000 less than what Napier started at.

[CajunRage]

Mike's salary is a competitive salary with coaches in the Sun Belt. It's just 100,000 less than what Napier started at.

What's Dr Maggards salary compared to the rest of the belt? He got a raise recently while we busted through the established floor on the hire to keep our rising program on the right trajectory?

[ExecutiveCajun]

When Dr. Maggard was hired, here is about where we were generally:

Administration: we had an AD, Asst Ad and I believe one secretarial staff person.

Football: HC HUD got to about $1,000,000 and I would venture to guess maybe $500,000 in all other salaries (pretty sure Des was way under $100,000)

Basketball: Marlin and two assistants - Guess total $650,000

Baseball: Robe $120,000 one paid assistant $50,000

Softball: Lotief’s $100,000 and maybe a $30,000 assistant

Increases:

Administration: Maggard, Nico, Lege all at higher salaries together with about another 15 or 20 support staff (who knows how much all those additional bodies cost)

Football: HC $2,000,000 plus another $2,000,000 support staff

Basketball. Coaching salaries up to about $850,000 now

Baseball: Loan on Tigue to pay and Maggard had raised Robe to about $250,00 and Deggs is now making just under $400,000 with two assistants making more now

Softball. Fired Lotief’s and now Glasco and staff about $400,000

SHOW ME THE MONEY to fund all of these increases. It is surely not attendance increase in your two potential money makers - Football and Basketball

I know some of these numbers may be off some but you get the message. Where is the money tree.

The FOUR areas of substantial increase:

Administration Salaries and number of positions. https://ragincajuns.com/staff-directory
Football HC and Support Staff $1,500,000 to $4,000,000
Baseball: $150,000 to $400,000
Softball: $130,000 to $350,000

SHOW ME THE MONEY

now for all the goofy stuff you post i did not know you were capable of such good subject matter. more of this less of the goofy stuff