Good News for the WAC

[coachacola]

From the UTSA sports blog on mysanantonio.com:

[quote]Proposal 2010-100 was adopted Thursday by the NCAA’s Legislative Council, which will allow the WAC to remain an FBS/Division I league as it is currently composed. Provided, of course, it doesn’t continue to hemmorage members, which likely will remain a concern for the forseeable future.

But for now, the league can at least breath a little bit easier after the contunity clause that required conferences to maintain a core membership of six schools for at least five years was abolished. In its place, conferences must have “seven active Division I members” – all of which sponsor men’s basketball, and six that sponsor at least five other sports, including football.

So if the WAC can retain its impending lineup of UTSA, Texas State, Louisiana Tech, Idaho, Utah State, New Mexico State, San Jose State and Denver (men’s basketball), it will retain its valuable automatic NCAA tournament berths, perhaps the biggest key to its future survival.

“It was tailored so it wouldn’t disenfranchise anyone,” said Steve Mallonee, a member of the legislative council and the NCAA’s managing director of academic and membership affairs. “Everybody currently meets the requirements. (The WAC) is taking steps to add members. Let’s hope they’re successful and they can continue on.”[/quote]

Is an invite for Lamar coming soon?

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/utsa/2011/01/ncaa-wac-action-at-the-national-convention/

[Lazeek]

Think I already said this about 2 weeks ago..........LAMAR WILL BE IN THE WAC IN 2012!!!!!!

[UNLV]

If we are going, lets go. No need to waste months.

[coachacola]

The WAC is meeting tomorrow in San Antonio.  I'm guessing if Lazeek is right then that invite will be coming quickly.

[bigred360]

Do you guys see SHSU coming if Lamar leaves for the WAC as they really need two more schools?

[1KatKiller]

Check out these head coaching salaries for the WAC by USA today.  Rumor is that Mark Hudspeth at USL got 350-375K with incentives as well.

Following are the WAC coaches' salaries, according to USA Today report:

$450,000 — Sonny Dykes, Louisiana Tech;

$403,820 — Mike McIntyre, San Jose State;

$375,000 — DeWayne Walker, New Mexico State;

$354,400 — Gary Andersen, Utah State;

$350,000 — Dennis Franchione, Texas State;

$263,187 — Robb Ankeny, Idaho;

$200,000 — Larry Coker, UTSA.

Any ideas on where Coach Woodard would rank here if the jump is made?

[YouCanUseaMint]

[quote name="bigred360" post="948088" timestamp="1295028082"]
Do you guys see SHSU coming if Lamar leaves for the WAC as they really need two more schools?
[/quote]
Nope. Remember, this league still has western schools.. We need to be thinking about who we can be adding in the Utah-New Mexico-California triangle (that is if UNT, Montana/MontanaSt, UCD, etc don't come calling back).

[YouCanUseaMint]

[quote name="1KatKiller" post="948109" timestamp="1295030158"]
Check out these head coaching salaries for the WAC by USA today.  Rumor is that Mark Hudspeth at USL got 350-375K with incentives as well.

Following are the WAC coaches' salaries, according to USA Today report:

$450,000 — Sonny Dykes, Louisiana Tech;

$403,820 — Mike McIntyre, San Jose State;

$375,000 — DeWayne Walker, New Mexico State;

$354,400 — Gary Andersen, Utah State;

$350,000 — Dennis Franchione, Texas State;

$263,187 — Robb Ankeny, Idaho;

$200,000 — Larry Coker, UTSA.

Any ideas on where Coach Woodard would rank here if the jump is made?




[/quote]
Isn't he getting 130-140K? Budget for assistants would have to increase as well. We nearly doubled our budget for assistants from $400K to $800K -$1 mill

[bigred360]

[quote name="1KatKiller" post="948109" timestamp="1295030158"]
Check out these head coaching salaries for the WAC by USA today.  Rumor is that Mark Hudspeth at USL got 350-375K with incentives as well.

Following are the WAC coaches' salaries, according to USA Today report:

$450,000 — Sonny Dykes, Louisiana Tech;

$403,820 — Mike McIntyre, San Jose State;

$375,000 — DeWayne Walker, New Mexico State;

$354,400 — Gary Andersen, Utah State;

$350,000 — Dennis Franchione, Texas State;

$263,187 — Robb Ankeny, Idaho;

$200,000 — Larry Coker, UTSA.

Any ideas on where Coach Woodard would rank here if the jump is made?




[/quote]

I think Coach Woodard makes about $140,000 but if we were to make the jump to the WAC, I could see the athletic department raising his salary to at least $200,000 with incentives.

[bigred360]

BTW, salaries for coaches in all sports would have to be competitive with coaches at other WAC schools.

This is the major hurdle I see at Lamar as well as renovating and construction of other athletic facilities.

Can we raise the money for travel, salaries and renovation and new construction to be competitive in the WAC?

[YouCanUseaMint]

[quote name="bigred360" post="948125" timestamp="1295030993"]

Can we raise the money for travel, salaries and renovation and new construction to be competitive in the WAC?
[/quote]
The beauty of living in Texas is if you can't afford it, you can go ask the students  ;)

[coachacola]

Woodard was hired at $140K and his assistants make around $60K a year.  I'm sure he'd get a nice bump in salary if Lamar joins the WAC so for that reason alone I'm guessing he'd be for the move.

Looking at the Equity in Athletics website, here's average men's head coach salaries for the remaining WAC schools:

Utah State $189,667
La Tech $131,453
Idaho $87,164
NMSU $160,378
SJSU $201,366

SLC schools
Lamar $84,760 (including Woodard's $140K salary)
Texas State $89,044 (will jump up with Fran's new salary)
UTSA $100,268 (including Coker's $200K salary)

The men's golf team already travels around the country for tournaments so it shouldn't be effected by the move.  The Montagne Center really only needs a new scoreboard.  Renovations to Vincent-Beck are already scheduled to happen soon.  The big item is expanding the football stadium.  That can probably wait a few years but that will cost a lot.