<h1>6 TOSU (BIG TEN) vs #8 Arkansas (SEC)</h1>
<p>Kick-off coming up sooooooooooooon!!!</p>
<p>GO BUCKS!!! LOL~~~~~~~</p>
<p>Good luck man…</p>
<p>^^ Thanks, UCB!!! I’ve saved you a seat and am busy making enough popcorn for everyone!!! Due to the age restriction, many of the CCers are under-21, therefore, an alcohol free night!!! However, Buckeye kool-Aid will be served!!! lol</p>
<p>HOLY BUCKEYE NATION!!! TONIGHT WE FIGHT!!! lol~~ </p>
<p>lol GO BUCKS!!! GO BIG TEN!!! lol~~ </p>
<p>P.S. I do have deep concerned for the ex-Michigan QB Ryan Mallett in this game… =.="</p>
<p>Michigan Wolverines</p>
<p>U-M prepared to pay $5 million for new coach, staff</p>
<p>Lynn Henning / The Detroit News
Last Updated: January 07. 2011 1:00AM .</p>
<p>For sheer profligacy in Big Ten football’s coaching history, nothing quite matched 1982. </p>
<p>It was the year when a rival bid from Texas A&M blasted Michigan coach Bo Schembechler’s annual paycheck to $88,000 and when, months later, Michigan State broke the bank in luring George Perles from Philadelphia with the highest salary ever paid a Big Ten coach — $90,000. </p>
<p>But it was less money than Alabama’s Nick Saban makes in weeklysalary in 2011. </p>
<p>No one has to tell Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon the suggested retail price for a snazzy new coach has shifted as he begins shopping for a man to replace the fired Rich Rodriguez. </p>
<p>“Will money be an issue?” he asked rhetorically at Wednesday’s news conference when the dismissal was explained. </p>
<p>Brandon said Michigan has “traditionally kind of been in the middle of the pack” when it comes to paying football coaches — and he no longer viewed the mainstream as necessarily being Michigan’s proper place. </p>
<p>“My point is, is that there’s a market out there,” he said. “You pay for value.” </p>
<p>Brandon added the Michigan Board of Regents, as well as school president Mary Sue Coleman, were on board with those thoughts and “we will do what we need to do and get the right coach to come to Michigan.” </p>
<p>And what might that cost be when the bonuses, perks, annuities, camps, and TV/radio packages are added up? </p>
<p>“What you’re talking about is bringing in somebody for what amounts to $5 million per year,” said Gil Brandt, the longtime coaching consultant and former Cowboys personnel director. </p>
<p>“For you to get a top guy like Jim Harbaugh — and I would think it’s the same for Les Miles or for that kind of man — it’s going to cost you a minimum of $3 million per year. And then it’s going to cost you a big number for his assistant coaches, and that number, probably, is going to be somewhere between $1.8 and $2 million per year.” </p>
<p>Brandt qualified the $5 million in one important way: It depends upon whom you’re hiring and where he last coached. </p>
<p>It explains why Brandon could be dealing with different numbers for people as he hunts for a coach, who, in step with his expressed plan, has past experience wearing Maize and Blue. </p>
<p>Although it is not known what Harbaugh makes at Stanford (a private university keeps such numbers confidential), another of Brandon’s possible targets, Miles at LSU, pulls down $3.75 million in base salary. </p>
<p>Any relocation by Miles would come at a stiffer price than it would for Brady Hoke, the coach at San Diego State and another man likely on Brandon’s short list. Hoke makes $675,000 — less than one-fifth of Miles’ annual paycheck. </p>
<p>It might or might not mean Brandon will be paying higher freight than Michigan absorbed during Rodriguez’s time in Ann Arbor. Rodriguez was paid $2,525,280 in 2010, apart from a bowl-game bonus. </p>
<p>Higher pay goes around
The salary market has changed almost as dramatically for assistants. </p>
<p>One of Schembechler’s conditions for sticking in Ann Arbor in 1982, after the Aggies had come at him with a 10-year, multi-million-dollar offer, was his assistants would also get a bump from the $25,000 range at which the top-tier assistants were paid. </p>
<p>Compensation is heftier today, especially for coordinators. </p>
<p>Justin Wilcox, defensive coordinator at Tennessee, last month was being pressed by Texas to replace Will Muschamp after Muschamp departed to become Florida’s coach. </p>
<p>Wilcox is sticking in Knoxville, and for good reason: He will be paid $600,000, $625,000, and $650,000 in an escalating three-year deal that carries with it a $300,000 buyout. </p>
<p>It’s many more shekels than the $11,000 Perles was making as a Michigan State assistant in 1971 when he left to join Chuck Noll’s Pittsburgh Steelers’ staff. </p>
<p>Schembechler, of course, knew something about pay scales and the realities that governed college football in the 1960s and '70s. </p>
<p>Canham hired Schembechler in 1968 for $20,000. </p>
<p>Schembechler’s advice to himself after his wife, Millie, had settled on a new home in Ann Arbor was he better not get fired. </p>
<p>The money, after all, wasn’t all that good back then. And neither was the severance pay. </p>
<p>From The Detroit News: <a href=“Detroit Local News - Michigan News - Breaking News - detroitnews.com”>Detroit Local News - Michigan News - Breaking News - detroitnews.com;
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<p>WOw!!! Consider Sweater-Vest ‘only’ makes $3.5 million…lol</p>
<p>If Michigan is to land Miles or Harbaugh, it is going to have to pay $3.5 - $4 million to the coach alone. Even then, there is a good chance we will not get either one of them.</p>
<p>^^ Indeed!! But, if there is one thing that I’ve learned over the years regarding to ‘The’ University of Michigan (btw, my cousin’s official Umich diploma has ‘The’, too) would be its ample endowment. In actuality, a few millions spend here and there in order to patch up Rich Rod Experiment and perhaps Les Miles Buyout is really a drop in the bucket to Michigan imo. </p>
<p>Though I am not certain whether Umich’s athletic department is financially affiliated with or independent from the university, the following article certainly caught my attention when I first read it two years back. Impressive!! :)</p>
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<p>A Rust Belt Oasis, the University of Michigan Is Spending Billions to Grow </p>
<p>By KEITH SCHNEIDER
Published: December 30, 2008</p>
<p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. — An army of ironworkers, masons, carpenters and laborers are swarming the campus of the University of Michigan these days, as the university undertakes a construction campaign budgeted at $2.5 billion, ranking it among the largest university building programs in the United States.</p>
<p>Nine major buildings for science, medicine, health, art, business, sports, food service and student housing are in various stages of construction here. They encompass nearly three million square feet, at a cost of about $1.66 billion. Five others are in the design stage. </p>
<p>This comes after the completion in the last two years of 10 other buildings — for biomedical research, cardiovascular treatment, science, technology, engineering, public health, public policy and drama — covering 1.7 million square feet at a cost of $836.4 million. The square footage in the new and renovated buildings comes to the equivalent of 105 acres.</p>
<p>“Having the right facilities is crucial to a thriving public research university,” said Philip J. Hanlon, vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs at the University of Michigan, where the first building was completed in 1840. “We are producing the work force of the future in the industries of the future. And we are doing that even as the help our state government provides is declining.”</p>
<p>Indeed, college campuses have emerged this decade as important centers of building design and construction, according to executives overseeing university buildings and operations across the country. As in Michigan’s case, university construction programs are often the largest capital projects in their states. </p>
<p>University administrators here and in other states say the burst of construction, which began at the start of the decade and accelerated in recent years, has enabled campuses to catch up with years of deferred maintenance and to add new installations that respond to fast-evolving economic priorities and markets. </p>
<p>Among the most important of those is attracting the best students and faculty to elite institutions like Michigan, which sees itself as competing with universities like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia and Virginia and the major campuses of the University of California. </p>
<p>Universities are also racing to become leaders in new technologies to produce successful graduates and royalties from spin-off businesses that can contribute to revenue. Michigan is making a particular effort to be a leader in nanotechnology, medical science and new mechanical engineering applications.</p>
<p>The race for financing is particularly urgent now, development officers say. The national financial crisis has drained endowments and may affect fund-raising. Michigan’s endowment at the end of June was $7.7 billion, but it has dropped by about 20 to 30 percent since then, the university said. </p>
<p>Still, its construction program proceeded apace even as state funds steadily diminished. For its 24 projects, the university says it has received just $20 million from the state of Michigan for three of the projects. The rest were financed with donor gifts, bonds and operating revenue. </p>
<p>Other campus construction programs also have large price tags. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for example, is completing a 10-year, $2.1 billion renovation and construction program that included a $122 million genetic research center. The University of Virginia has $1.51 billion in new buildings in the planning and construction stages, according to a report by C. A. Johannesmeyer, the director of facilities planning and construction.</p>
<p>At the University of Michigan, “two goals guide the program,” said Henry D. Baier, the associate vice president for facilities and operations. “We have to stay competitive. And we need to be good stewards of this campus and this state.”</p>
<p>The university is one of the most prominent institutions in a Rust Belt state saddled with a jobless rate of 9.3 percent, tied with Rhode Island for the nation’s highest. But Ann Arbor, with 114,000 residents, is holding its own, in large part because of its highly ranked university, which has a $5.2 billion budget, 41,000 students and employs more than 30,000 people.</p>
<p>Nothing about the campus building program will harm its reputation. The biggest projects include a $754 million, 1.1-million-square-foot medical facility to the C. S. Mott Children’s and Women’s Hospital.</p>
<p>The university, which already has more than 200 buildings, is also putting up its first dormitory in 40 years, the $175 million, 360,000-square-foot North Quad, which also has classroom space.</p>
<p>The famed “Big House” football stadium is adding 450,000 square feet for luxury boxes, a new media center and more than 2,000 seats, which will give it more than 108,000 seats, surpassing Penn State’s Beaver Stadium as the nation’s largest. The cost: $226 million.</p>
<p>The most significant architectural statement is made in the $145 million, 270,000-square-foot Stephen M. Ross School of Business, designed by the New York-based architects Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. The L-shaped building is six stories tall, with glass walls in the top stories. The exterior base is sandstone topped by terra cotta walls.</p>
<p>Michigan’s program also includes the $132 million, 230,000-square-foot Kellogg Eye Center and Brehm Diabetes Center; the $42 million, 96,000-square-foot renovation and expansion of the Alumni Memorial Hall Museum of Art; and the $48 million, 41,000-square-foot Robert H. Lurie Nanofabrication Facility.</p>
<p>Jerry A. May, the vice president for development, led an eight-year capital campaign, recently completed, that raised $3.11 billion, a record for public universities in the United States, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. More than 360,000 of the university’s 439,000 living alumni contributed. </p>
<p>Mr. May, who headed a team of professional fund-raisers and volunteers, noted that many of the largest gifts for the construction projects came from prominent developers who graduated from Michigan. </p>
<p>The largest gift, $100 million, was donated to the business school by Mr. Ross, a New York-based developer who is the chief executive of the Related Companies, which built the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle.</p>
<p>Mr. Ross, a 1962 Michigan graduate, was co-chairman of the capital campaign. He also donated $5 million more to help build a $12 million, 38,000-square-foot academic center for university athletes; it was completed in 2006. </p>
<p>Source: <a href=“University of Michigan Spending $2.5 Billion to Grow - The New York Times”>University of Michigan Spending $2.5 Billion to Grow - The New York Times;
<p>The latest has Harbaugh and Luck both at Stanford for a one year shot for the NC game and then on to the NFL for both. At least H does not have to worry about injury.</p>
<p>Sparkeye, clearly Michigan can afford to spend big bucks for a new coach. But do they really want to be blamed for another round of inflation in coaching salaries? Many folks are still upset with the U of Washington for its hiring and extravagant salary for Rick Neuheisel. Apparently Neuheisel’s hiring began the most recent trend of the mega salaried coach. Although those same folks forget that Texas A&M hired Jackie Sherrill for a ridiculous sum back in the 1980s. Success on the field at A&M failed to materialize, however. And let’s not even discuss Charlie Wei$$ and Notre Dame.</p>
<p>I think that UMichigan may go with a relative unknown or successful small college coach, like rival OSU did with Jim Tressel. They would save a ton of money up front.</p>
<p>Will furd fill its 50000 seat stadium next year as it makes that run to the NCG?</p>
<p>Hairball was supposedly offered 7.5 million by the Dolphins.</p>
<p>5 million is crazy for a college to spend on a football coach.</p>
<p>What does Neweasel make at UCLA? Berkeley staff can’t stand Tedfords north of 2 million salary.</p>
<p>Not that much. UCLA has salary cap too and is given as reason for their decline.
Stanford will hire extras to fill seats. But with all the great free press it really does not matter much.</p>
<p>ChemEGrad, I see there are still some tender sores about Newweas…er… Neuheisel throughout the west; Colorado, Washington and now Los Angeles. LOL. Well, at least the guy volunteered and coached at my old middle school for free during his lawsuit against U of Washington.</p>
<p>@LakeWashington,</p>
<p>“Sparkeye, clearly Michigan can afford to spend big bucks for a new coach. But do they really want to be blamed for another round of inflation in coaching salaries?”</p>
<p>Michigan football is the bread and butter of its profitable athletic department. The school will do whatever it takes to right its ship imo. Watch what DB had said at 2:20 of this clip. [YouTube</a> - U-M Athletic director David Brandon fires Rodriguez](<a href=“U-M Athletic director David Brandon fires Rodriguez - YouTube”>U-M Athletic director David Brandon fires Rodriguez - YouTube)</p>
<p>@UCBChemEgrad,</p>
<p>“5 million is crazy for a college to spend on a football coach.”</p>
<p>Indeed, that’s a NFL HC salary alright! But, it’s still chump change so far as Michigan football is concerned.</p>
<p>Latest on the coaching search:</p>
<p>[Harbaugh</a> Not Coming To Michigan - Sports News Story - WDIV Detroit](<a href=“http://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/26404037/detail.html]Harbaugh”>http://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/26404037/detail.html)</p>
<p>More money AND no crappy midwestern weather. Harbaugh goes to the 49er’s:</p>
<p><a href=“Jim Harbaugh to Leave Stanford to Coach 49ers - The New York Times”>Jim Harbaugh to Leave Stanford to Coach 49ers - The New York Times;
<p>Harbaugh was going to go to the NFL sooner or later. Good for him.</p>
<p>@Stooge,</p>
<p>It’s not about the weather!!! Brady Hoke (SDSU’s HC) would love to relocate from Cali to Michigan given the opportunity!!</p>
<p>Some rumor?! that UM President Mary Sue Coleman had issues with Jim Harbaugh in which he later responded by stating that Michigan football is still alive and well but in East Lansing!!! lol</p>
<p>Michigan’s Airforce One had landed in Baton Rouge this morning!!</p>
<p>Source: [Michigan</a> Courting Les Miles in Baton Rouge? - Roll 'Bama Roll](<a href=“Michigan Courting Les Miles in Baton Rouge? - Roll 'Bama Roll”>Michigan Courting Les Miles in Baton Rouge? - Roll 'Bama Roll)</p>
<p>My prediction is about to come true!! Les Miles to return home!! lol</p>
<p>Which is a great pick for Michigan imo (A true Michigan man to say the least), since not only had he just won the Cotton Bowl, but also beat Tressel in the MNC game a few years back!!</p>
<p>Oh, incidentally, just met a Michigan alum in Argo Tea tonight who approached me after noticing my Buckeye shirt!! It was a very pleasant encounter, I guess we are both mature adults (well, granted he grew up as a Spartan fan and a young lawyer here in Chi-town). In short, we talked football 90% of the convo and he insisted however that Rich Rod deserves one more year. @_@"</p>
<p>I like this clip is fun, especially towards the end @ 4:07</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Dave Brandon/Les Miles:THE INTERVIEW](<a href=“Dave Brandon/Les Miles:THE INTERVIEW - YouTube”>Dave Brandon/Les Miles:THE INTERVIEW - YouTube)</p>
<p>Anyway, The Michigan HC has been selected</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Michigan Picks Brady Hoke As New Football Coach](<a href=“Michigan Picks Brady Hoke As New Football Coach - YouTube”>Michigan Picks Brady Hoke As New Football Coach - YouTube)</p>
<p>I think it’s a good pick, especially from the defense stand point!!</p>
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Speaking truthfully as a Spartan-Buckeye alum!</p>
<p>^^ You read me well!! :p</p>
<p>Most Spartans & Buckeyes were concerned with the possibility of Les Miles returning as the HC of Michigan. And in fact that was MY PICK for this job for the rivalry sake. Brady Hoke…hmm… Yea, I did let out a sigh of relief alright, whew… Then again, he might be the next Bo schembechler from Ohio, you just never know!! lol</p>
<p>@GoBlue81, </p>
<p>I take it that you are not one of those Wolverines who are excited about the hire?! I’ve read that the approval rating of Coach Hoke is 50/50 amongst the blue fans now?!</p>