I 100% Support Mike Desormeaux! (formerly I will not support Mike D)

[Turbine]

If contracts were worth the digital ink they were written in, this contract would be a steal.

I would consider it front loaded with highway robbery on the back end, but we know how these things work. If he is successful it will have been extended and bumped 3 times by the current end date.

[CrazyCajun]

I understand it may be an unpopular opinion. I have always said there is a bigger problem of balancing the need to spend to have success with the need to be fiscally responsible. It may scream small-time, but money isnt an infinite resource for this program.

We had a $5.9 million from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020 (one season affected by COVID); and $4.5 million deficit from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. The numbers for July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, havent been released, but considering both academic semesters were affected by COVID, i would imagine there will be a deficit.

I like Maggard. But odds are he wont be here in five years. What incentive is there to be fiscally responsible? Is Des worth $775,000, or more like $500k? Does $250k make that much of a difference in the grand scheme of things? I think so.

By no means am I big donor. But I do want to see my money used responsibly. Napier was worth $2 million because he proved his worth before getting here and in his first few years. He was also worth it because of basic market factors--i.e. he could make a heck of a lot more somewhere else.

Compare that to Des. No HC experience. One year (or two?) of co-OC position. Six years NCAA coaching. Young. Local. Thats all Im saying.

Mike tapped ya ole lady in college or something? Quit hatin bruh.

[LouisianaB]

Mike tapped ya ole lady in college or something? Quit hatin bruh.

If that’s all you gotta say in response then there’s no point in providing an actual response. Grownups can discuss these things

[CajunVic]

I was hoping for UL to save a little more than $1.25 mil over last year, but I'm happy for the Desormeaux family.

You are shorting that analysis by $3mm

[CajunVic]

If that’s all you gotta say in response then there’s no point in providing an actual response. Grownups can discuss these things

Still looking for one of those grownups on the cheese side and you, my friend, are not one of them . . . The response to your whine was most appropriate . . .

[CrazyCajun]

If that’s all you gotta say in response then there’s no point in providing an actual response. Grownups can discuss these things

“We are serious at the university of Louisiana, we are committed to be the top G5 program in the country and we found the guy to do it” well then why you paying him 8th highest salary in the SBC? Oh well he didn’t have any other options. Bet that Sounds fantastic out on the recruiting trail

[LouisianaB]

Still looking for one of those grownups on the cheese side and you, my friend, are not one of them . . . The response to your whine was most appropriate . . .

Asking questions about fiscal responsibility is whining? Okay bud.

Speaking of, I offered to meet you face to face as grownups do. You declined.

[LouisianaB]

“We are serious at the university of Louisiana, we are committed to be the top G5 program in the country and we found the guy to do it” well then why you paying him 8th highest salary in the SBC? Oh well he didn’t have any other options. Bet that Sounds fantastic out on the recruiting trail

4th highest.

[CajunVic]

I don’t think $500k is abuse. I think it’s responsible. He does not have college coaching experience. College and high school are a little different.

He wins next year, I’m all for bumping up.

Do you agree with anything I said or is it a blanket rebuke?

In this part of the thread, blanket rebuke. I am happy with the salary and would have been even more ecstatic had it come out and made a real statement at $1mm

[CrazyCajun]

4th highest.

Not with what you suggesting paying him