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8mo
Only candidate I am all in on is Franklin!! Mullen- I am 50% in
Chesney- No Thanks
Franklin brings immediate exposure and recruits to Blacksburg.
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8mo
Sexton going to demand, the same package to Chesney as Franklin NO NO NO NO
Find a coach who SEXTON IS not an agent
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8mo
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VaPoly07
8mo
Dude is making $500k
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8mo
either chesney stays at jmu for 800k or come to VT for 2.8 mil + bonuses. salary to increase 1 mil per yr for 4 yr + bonuses.
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VTCALS72
8mo
Just the fact he is coming up the same path as Cignetti will fetch him more than that.
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EDGEMAN
8mo
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VTCALS72
8mo
I mean he is certainly within the top 10 prospects on just about every list.
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8mo
Cig's current salary is 500k base + "bonuses"
** Edited by Windows NT at 11/5/2025, 9:42:07 AM
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8mo
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8mo
At Indiana. I would guess double.
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8mo
2.8 mil base for Chesney 1st yr is a lot more than 500k
** Edited by Windows NT at 11/5/2025, 9:15:13 AM
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8mo
Cignetti's initial contract at Indiana was 6 years 27 mil plus incentives.
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8mo
it's a lot higher.
VT should structure Chesney's for 2.8 mil base + "incentives"
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8mo
Plus incentives. The math is easy. You really thought he would leave JMU for the big 10 and getting 500k base?
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8mo
"On paper, Cignetti will receive a $500,000 base salary and "outside, marketing and promotional" income of $9.65 million starting December 1, 2025"
Chesney is not getting 9.65 mil starting out
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** Edited by Windows NT at 11/5/2025, 2:24:48 PM
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8mo
Forget Chesney now. I never mentioned him. I disputed Cignetti was making less than 2.8 base salary at Indiana. Upon review he was making base 4.5 mil before his latest extension. I would guess Chesney is going to increase his 800k 6x or so.
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8mo
at Indiana. So you are technically correct his base salary is slightly more than $2.8M ($3.0M = $500K x 6), but it wasn't that much more.
"According to the memorandum of understanding obtained by HoosiersNow.com through public records requests, Cignetti will receive an annual base salary of $500,000 for six years through the end of his contract on Nov. 30, 2029. He will also earn $3,500,000 in annual outside, marketing and promotional income during the first year of his contract. That figure will increase annually by $100,000 and peak at $4,000,000 in the sixth year of the contract. Cignetti will receive an annual retention bonus of $250,000 on Nov. 30 of every year he remains head coach. Indiana University will also cover the existing buyout to James Madison."
Now it is possible you included the annual outside, marketing, and promotional income as his base salary. However, it appears that Indiana didn't structure it that way and I am sure they had their reason.
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8mo
And didn't include much. A quick Google seach said his initial contract was 4.5 per for 6 years plus incentives. Sounded right to me for starters at a p2 program.
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8mo
in his base salary, it is possible it isn't guaranteed until he fulfills certain requirements and/or the funding is from another source (i.e. booster club, external sources, etc).
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VTCALS72
8mo
No way to compare to what salaries for new hires were even 2 years ago. And please, as someone posted for every Cignetti there are 100 failures. I don't know if that ratio is correct but Cignetti is such an outlier, he should never be used as an example for anything.
Wasn't the coach at JMU that Cignetti replaced considerd a better hire than Cignetti in his time? Yet he did not make a splash. Cignetti is no baseline to compare to.
** Edited by VTCALS72 at 11/5/2025, 9:04:25 AM
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8mo
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8mo
If they hadn't already .. and I believe they have. JF got that final notice ( from my friend) Tuesday and If he didn't sign, VT was moving on..
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8mo
Bet the whole future of the AD on a guy who's been in FBS for 10 minutes.
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8mo
record as a HC before getting P2 job? That guy?
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8mo
During a completely different era of college football? Ok. Glad you aren’t on the search committee. Enjoy misery!
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8mo
than Franklin but lower floor. If he doesn't bring his coordinators I'm not as exciting relative to any other name.
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8mo
We tried the coordinator route, and he was the worst coach at VT since Jimmy Sharpe. I guess Bill Dooley was technically our last coach hired from school from a major institution. That didn't end well. He was a far worse AD than coach, though.
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8mo
It might have.
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