Most people aren’t completely motivated by money, but that’s an awful lot of money to leave on the table. If two entities offer a person a fully guaranteed $10 million-a-year deal and one entity is limited to a four-year contract and the other isn’t, then it’s possible that person could have one piece of paper that guarantees $40 million and one that guarantees $100 million. I’m bad at math, so I’ll use round numbers. I think my original answer may have been wrong.
The more I thought about that, the more I realized that isn’t realistic for most people. In that answer, I listed the reasons why Kiffin probably has a better situation at Ole Miss - he has near-complete control the new SEC scheduling format should make things easier for Ole Miss - and said they’d likely outweigh more guaranteed money. A reader asked if I thought the Mississippi state law that limits public employee contracts to four years would be a hinderance if Ole Miss had to go head-to-head with Auburn to keep Kiffin. I’ve been feeling bad about an answer I gave to a question about Lane Kiffin and Auburn a few weeks ago. His help in revitalizing quarterback Bo Nix also suggests a developmental capability that could be critical in a metro area loaded with talented quarterbacks. Dillingham was a young high school coach who broke into college football by volunteering at Arizona State, and he’s shown this season at Oregon that he is a more-than-capable play caller. If the administration feels Sanders would be too unorthodox a hire after the Herm Edwards experiment - which is silly, because the situations are very different - then a logical option is Oregon offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham. There is no reason why Arizona State can’t be competitive with those two. With USC and UCLA leaving, Oregon and Washington would be the powers in that league. He would upgrade Arizona State’s personnel quickly, and his tenure at Jackson State suggests he could assemble a staff that could make that roster competitive quickly.
Put Coach Prime in Tempe and he could assemble a roster that could hang in the next iteration of the Pac-12 every season. This is the place that should be calling Deion Sanders every five minutes. Some of them will be recommendations because I just think that person would work well in that job. Some of these will be educated guesses based on conversations with people around the sport - and occasionally conversations with people directly involved.
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