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Jedd said on his radio show with softy recently we are well under $5M in NIL annually. He said it will take getting to $10M-$15M annually to be at the top range of NIL spending nationally. This is over and above $15M in rev share. What is Jedd and UW doing to find this $?
What is the buzz around other head/assistant coaches in the industry regarding the Washington head coaching job? It used to be considered a top 15 job in college football and yet in recent times it seems like our coaches are now poachable by other schools within the top 15 (I'm not discounting that Alabama, USC, and Michigan are higher tier jobs). Fearing that another program was going to come steal your head coach if he did well was never a problem at Washington before. What has gotten the program to this point, what is the view of the job from other coaches, and how can the program get back to a level where it's seen as a destination rather than a stop along the way? If it were NFL teams taking our coach(es) I would understand that but that isn't happening and, to the best of my knowledge, never has.