[papabear02]

There’s been some coaches contacted these last few days. Not heard a whole lot, but I know one coach was from Belfry and another from Ashland. Not sure if others were or where they’re from.

Michael Burchett is still an option also, but only way he coaches at Prestonsburg is if a NFL team doesn’t hire him.

The Ashland assistant is young, offensive minded and was told he specializes in QB/WRs.

That’s all I have right now.

NFL team? He was qb coach at Houston and going straight to NFL?

Houston to the NFL wouldn't be uncommon ................. but what would be uncommon is if PBurg could match what Houston or a power 5 D1 school would pay for his services but could not afford Sullivan, Ray or Letton. If they have the funds that this thread suggests then stop waiting on people to apply and start making phone calls. I'd start with Saban, worst case scenario they could call down to Log Mountain or over to Pond Creek.

For reference Burchett made 250K to coach at Houston.

I love the passion here for blackcat football, but we need to be realistic, and if by some chance PBurg is able to afford Burchett, then they should be ashamed for letting Ray and Sullivan walk out of the interviews. 

Just so we are all on the same page here, the total school commitment to head coach and assistants at Boyle, Corbin, Bowling Green and Highlands COMBINED is about 250K.  That is for the HC salary and ALL ASSISTANTS.  Now I know boosters are involved and there are many different avenues for coaches to be paid, but we have to start being realistic here.

I just knew a post like this was coming it’s why I was even hesitant to post anything because no matter what information is passed along you get a response like this.

SMH

There is no ill-will intended by the post.  Let's just be logical and pretend that Burchett is a certified teacher, given that he's has no teaching experience he's going to start at probably around 37-42k per year.  I don't know the school's commitment to coaching salary but I would imagine its 10-15K and there is probably another 20-25K to pay assistants.  If he took the entire pool of money on the high end it would put him at 80K to teach and coach.  Simple math would say that he is losing 170K at the very least to come to PBurg and coach a struggling 2A football program. 

There may be other factors we don't know about but to say that Burchett is an option if he doesn't get an NFL offer is passing along faulty 

Assistant coach stipends are $1500 each and you get 3, HC is $7500. Teaching salary is about right.