University of Alabama assistant coach Sal Sunseri has been offered a position as the defensive coordinator at Tennessee and is expected to accept the offer, a source confirmed to Tidesports.com.
Sal Sunseri to be new DC at Tennessee
Will be interesting to see how this affects us going forward. In any case, coaching attrition is the price of success. Good luck to him.
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This...
is gonna hurt. Damn!!!
"My favorite play is the one where the player pitches the ball back to the official after scoring a touchdown." Paul "Bear" Bryant
Izzy Gould is now backtracking on it.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
Oops- as of 11:10am:
IzzyGould Izzy Gould
Source tells me Vinnie Sunseri “is a Crimson Tider,” and will stay at Alabama.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
Never mind, that's Vinnie.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
Izzy Gould is reporting
that it’s a done deal. Presser at 2:30 today.
WNML’s Jimmy Hyams reports via Twitter that Sunseri’s deal is worth $700,000 to $800,000 annually for 2 to 3 years.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports the deal is worth $2.4 million over the course of three years.
Money/Guarantee
The money and the guarantee was the key. This is a huge step up relative to what he was making, and best of all its guaranteed. I think he will probably do well there, but Dooley does not have much time left.
Who knows maybe Alabama can hire him back if/when Smart leaves?
What is Smart's salary?
$750,000? Though I assume he’ll be getting another raise this year.
That was Smart's 2010 salary
Per kleph’s 2010 post on RBR. It was $850,000 in 2011, with a bonus to come for playing in the BCSCG.
by SweetHomeAla on Jan 13, 2012 11:00 AM CST up reply actions
Biggest immediate impact
of this is that he is the guy recruiting Eddie Goldman….SS recruited for us very well in the north and has pulled some good recruits in for us…..we need someone on the staff that is familar with that area if we are still going to get athletes from there…..Koujandas, Depriest, Cyrus Jones and trying to pull Goldman…..
Roll Tide!
EFF.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
by Slice of Life on Jan 13, 2012 10:49 AM CST up reply actions
Great position coach and an even stronger recruiter.
this one is going to hurt on the recruiting front, but Congrats to Coach Sal.
He probably deserved the Pitt head job at least twice, but I’m sure the lack of Coordinator experience hurt him in the interview process.
It’s not personal, just buisness when Bama shreds your defense next year.
Congrats Coach Sal
"Make no mistake, Florida is the South's trashcan" Peter Griffin
I don't blame Pitt.
As you say, I couldn’t see hiring a position coach to be HC, especially at a “BCS” school.
God bless our Dark Lord.
This seems like one of those things
Where you can’t have two defensive co-ordinations on your staff, and Sunseri seemed ripe to get the upgrade given his success. Tennessee now might have the problem of replacing our linebacker’s coach Lance Thompson, as many think he deserves a shot at DC. Rumor is that he’ll look for a DC job elsewhere since we passed him over.
Anyways, I’d feel bad for you, but those rings probably feel a lot better than coaching insecurity ;-)
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Boom. Here comes the Boom. Braydy or not. Here comes the boy from the West.
Good luck to him? Really?
It’s tennessee.
"We run this state, we run this stadium. Now let's go out there and run their ass in the ground"
Random note-
Wondering how Alabama feels not being able to hire Boise State’s OC. Kinda embarrassing for a school that always puts down the Broncos. On the heels of winning a national title they still couldn’t convince Pease to come to Tuscaloosa. That’s rough.
"Every game matters..... unless you play in the SEC."
by Bring the HAMMER! on Jan 14, 2012 10:52 AM CST reply actions
Well, we don't know how seriously Saban was pursuing Pease.
Not that I would know, but Florida could have offered him more money or something such as that. Maybe he would have had more freedom to design the offense at Florida. You never know.
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