Mike Riley makes over $1.5M a season coaching at Oregon State. He’s not coming back to the CFL.
No, I disagree they have a track record of hiring the best available head coaches at the time but they eventually didn’t produce a winner. Marcel Bellefuille and Greg Marshall were considered the most successful CIS coaches at the time of signing, I remember everyone gushing and saying it was about time they hired Canadians that knew the game.
You can rule out Kent Austin too, he is another one with a huge contract at Cornel.
I highly doubt it’s a huge contract at Cornell.
How much is it?
8) Austins contract at Cornell apparently is not as big as some would think.
He was making $300,000 as OC at Ole Miss., but rumours are that he took a pay cut to become HC at Cornell !!
Actually, from what I heard at Cornell, he got a pay boost after the Riders tried luring him last year. I’m pretty confident he is making in the $300,000-$400,000 now.
Actually, from what I heard at Cornell, he got a pay boost after the Riders tried luring him last year. I’m pretty confident he is making in the $300,000-$400,000 now.
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Plus two or three kids getting their tuition paid for (52 316.00 a year per). He’s also midway developing one of the best young QB in the school’s history. Money can buy anything but I would be surprised if he walked away from what he started at Cornell to join the Young and Mitchell Circus.
There’s a piece in the Cornell paper from when Sask was wooing Austin to return there.
http://cornellsun.com/node/49230Evidently it was going to be a contract in the $500K range. He didn’t take that then, so I don’t know why he’d take less than that to come to Hamilton now.
The point about his kids’ tuition is a good one too. And if you haven’t been to Ithaca, it’s a lovely place in the Finger Lakes region. Good job, good school, good lifestyle… Maybe he’d leave it all for Hamilton, but I suspect it would take a lot of dough to draw him away.
Pretty much. The guy would have to be insane.
Maybe Austin feigns interest in the Tiger-Cats job and secures another big raise from Cornell to stay. It worked before with the Saskatchewan offer - why wouldn’t it work again?
I’m confident Messrs Mitchell and Young would be ripe for that ruse.
Probably a very good strategy for him. If he’s confident in his market position, he can only come out a winner. I can see it now… $600K plus free Ivy League education for his kids… that’ll buy lots of good Finger Lakes wine. Life is good.
Rob Vanstone of the Regina Leader Post provides his support for the hiring of Eric Tillman by the Tiger cats...
[url=http://www.leaderpost.com/sports/VANSTONE+Free+advice+Hamilton+Tiger+Cats/7691682/story.html]http://www.leaderpost.com/sports/VANSTO ... story.html[/url]The Ticats could hire Tillman as a "senior consultant" to the new coach/GM. Austin would have final say on player personelle and running the team but could tap into ET's vast CFL knowledge and experience. If things work out Tillman could have his role expanded and become a VP, for example.
Isn't Tillman the guy that was charged with having sex with a minor?
:thdn:Isn't that the Tillman who's office staff disliked him so much in Edmonton?
Sounds like a one man wrecking crew. Create havoc in the name of short term gain and then be gone leaving a mess to be cleaned up by someone else.
NO!!! Get your facts straight. You just can’t defame someone. In the final analysis,all that we have is our good name.
Pat Lynch(the old guy)
Was asking a question, not stating any facts sir.
I must be misremebering :oops:
The general manager of the Saskatchewan Roughriders has been granted an absolute discharge after admitting to sexually assaulting a teenage girl.Judge Murray Hinds said he believed Eric Tillman was “genuinely remorseful” and his behaviour was “an aberration” fuelled by a bad combination of non-prescription drugs he took for a sore back.
Hinds said he’s satisfied that Tillman, who is 52, has learned the consequences of mixing drugs.
The discharge means Tillman is considered guilty of the offence, but will not have a criminal record, and will not have to meet any conditions during a probationary period.
Tillman pleaded guilty Monday to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl who was babysitting his two children in the summer of 2008.
Fox told court employees at the Rider office described him as being "loopy" and "definitely not himself and not with it," the day of the encounter.[url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/tillman-gets-absolute-discharge-after-admitting-to-sex-assault/article4300966/]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/t ... le4300966/[/url]Tillman said in his apology that his behaviour would not have happened “in a hundred million years had I not put myself in a position to be on medication.”
The teen did not make a victim impact statement, but Burge said she accepts Tillman’s apology.
I think we are already top-heavy - Mitchell, Obie in some consultant role (if he takes it) a new GM, McManus, Burkie, and some other dude being groomed for Admin jobs.
I wouldn’t include Shawn Burke in that group. He’s the director of football administration.
In his new role, Burke will supervise the football operations support staff, organize the team’s travel arrangements, assist with contractual issues, plan and implement training camp and coordinate free agent workouts and camps.http://www.ticats.ca/page/s-burke
The Calgary Stampeders have a 60 year old British Lady in the same position:
She prepares all player contracts and handles the processing of the club’s daily roster moves. In addition she is responsible for planning team travel, training camp, as well as handling logistical matters with regard to transportation, housing and documentation for players and coaches.http://www.stampeders.com/jane_mawby