Monday Morning Tomahawks 5.28.09

“Although FSU’s Bobby Bowden makes about $1 million a year less than Meyer, Bowden is still the ACC’s highest-paid head coach. Also, FSU has the distinction of being the nation’s only school with four assistants – Fisher, defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews, linebackers coach Chuck Amato and offensive line coach Rick Trickett – making more than $300,000.”

By my calculations we are roughly $1.6 million over budget (based on an estimate of Bobby Bowden only making $1mil a year) If Bowden makes what I suspect which is nearly $2mil a year, then we are about $2.6million over budget.

Lets give (The) Trickett a raise, give Jimbo the title to match the responsibilities he’s meeting, plus a raise, and totally revamp the defensive side of the ball.

I wouldn’t even mind them building a statue of Mickey AFTER he retires.

I agree about the statue part. And let’s not forget the stained window or naming the field after him. FSU really go itself in a spot when they did all this to honor BB when he still coached. How can FSU get rid of him after doing all that and not have a firestorm of criticism? Nothing wrong with honoring BB but my gosh do it after he retired.

Then tear down the stadium and build another keep the name but lose the at BB field part.

Seems to me that the boosters need to be the catalyst for pushing Chuck, at least, out the door. I mean, come on, if its this obvious to us casual and some not so casual observers of the program, then where is the outrage? 300K goes a long long way towards other coaches, facility upgrades, you name it. Jeff Bowden would still be here if not for the outrage and subsequent payoff through the boosters support.

I agree with Desman, at least Mickey tries to earn what he gets, out dated as it may be, Andrews still tries hard to make a good defense. I am surprised he hasnt come out alone to say that Chuck is not needed nor wanted by this organization.

for me was when the boosters were trying to buy out Jeff Bowden BB publicly said he urged him not to quit. Nothing else needed to be said after that. It demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was either disconnected, had no clue, had placed his own family above the program or a combination of all three.

There was simply no excuse for that. Someone should have set him down and talked about public relations and trying to establish some sense of reality.

What FSU has going for it right now is well functioning offense due to Fisher and Trickett, areas where BB was made to call for change. The rest of the program has still been mediocre.

If you are paying more in salaries than the rest of the ACC in a major college football recruiting hotbed, you need more than this.

I don’t doubt for a minute Trickett is fed up with BB. Who wouldn’t be. He has to look around and see someone like Chuckie making as much as him for doing nothing when Trickett could very well demand much much more salary wise somewhere else. I think he is being loyal to Fisher right now but that won’t last forever.

I think he understands there could well be a good situation in the making but I can see where he is impatient.

Spetman did not help the matter when he put off negotiations with Trickett’s representative with some talk about other situations having top priority. That was about the time Trickett interviewed at Illinois and Fisher went into damage control making it clear to all concerned that Trickett was a must as he knew how to “win football games.!”

That is still the bottom line I hope. The ideal situation would be for Wetherell and Spetman to sit down with BB and say look, in order for you to stay untill 2010 BB, Mickey is going to retire after 2009, Fisher is going to hire a DC and others to his liking and we won’t you to talk with the media and play golf. Try not to get in the way.