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As more Power 5 head coaching jobs open, Georgia football very happy to have Todd Monken

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  • navydawgnavydawg Posts: 3,547 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Totally Agree !! And Quality Of Life gets even More important as you age !! Though Monken isn’t really an old man he’s not a spring chicken either. Also his Wife will have some serious input on his decisions to. YES when you can make millions of $$ stacked high I understand that’s important. But he’s not exactly making chicken feed at Georgia either !! AND I’m pretty confident that as long as he continues to be successful UGA will be more than happy to shell out even more. Like I said in my earlier post when you get his age you start wanting to take a pause and smell the roses a little more. Money isn’t Everything at that point. And I maintain that he will want to See for himself what HIS Offense will look like with Beck or BVG or Gunner after Stets is gone. Off topic but Beck is looking pretty Dawg gone sharp !! And I can imagine Coach Monken would want to see what Beck would look like as The Man next year !! Last if the Dawgs can win the Natty again this year or even number two in the final polls you can bet Coach Monken will get yet another hefty pay raise !! As will many of the Coaches on both sides of the ball !! Go Dawgs !!

  • reddawg1reddawg1 Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    2 mill a year without really having to recruit and deal with the pressure of hiring and staffing and the pressure of turnng a losing program around sounds like a deal to me. Money can't buy happiness.

  • reddawg1reddawg1 Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
  • DJG76DJG76 Posts: 212 ✭✭✭ Junior

    I'm thinking that Monken is important enough to The Dawgs success that he should be making at least half of what Kirby is making....through .reddawg said it best....money can't buy happiness, with that said it looks to me that we have the best OC/QB coach in the nation and he's having fun......there aren't many "perfect" jobs out there but Coach Monken seems to have found his Paradice!.......Coach Monken, PLEASEEEEEE DON'T TAKE ALL THOSE OFFERS SERIOUSLY!!!!

  • JimDawg85JimDawg85 Posts: 375 ✭✭✭ Junior

    Monken has the best job in college football! I hope (and expect) he already knows it. Let's count the advantages he has at UGA that he won't get anywhere else:

    1. Gets to focus solely on the offense, scheming up plays and scoring points. Fun, fun!
    2. Has the Kirby Recruiting Machine doing all the heavy lifting, gets to be "The Closer" with star recruits.
    3. Has no responsibility for press interviews or alumni schmoozing. That looks like pulling teeth for him.
    4. Gets to coach some of the best talent in America, kids that are focused and committed to playing for the G!
    5. Gets to live in the best college town anywhere, and can go out to dinner with his family and nobody bothers him.
    6. Has some of the best assistant coaches, strength training, recruiting, & nutrition staffs in the business.
    7. Has state-of-the-art facilities to work in with nothing spared in equipment and technology.
    8. Has some of the most knowledgeable and interested football fans who are 'over-the-moon' at the job he is doing.

    I could go on, but you get the point. Oh, and he makes $2 mil a year and likely go higher from there.

    He has been-there, done-that as far as being a head coach, and knows the rewards and the responsibilities that come with the territory. If he wants to take all that on again, God bless him. I am just hoping he knows how good he's got it in Athens and wants to hang around.

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