Valdosta State University Blazers

New Coach Comes to Help VSU Make Transition

January 1, 2010

Weekly Report Posted: December 28, 2009 21:37  

After 5 years on the job, former coach David Dean has been fired. For whatever reason, they kept him from 2005-2009.

Being located near Florida, did not hurt them too bad. The Blazers do have some talent on the team. They however had 2 wins in 5 years for a record of 2-53.

The Blazers had to play so many top 25 teams to make enough money to help out on the recruiting budget. They were 0-29 against the top 25.

The new coach will take over VSU is another relative unknown. They had no money for the program to make a decent hire. They will pay the new coach a base salary of $45,000. If by some chance they are led to the National Championship, the coaches salary will become in the competitive $2.5 million range. Bowl games and whatnot will help bump up the salary to about $500k.

The assistant coaches will be making $30,000 a piece. They are hoping that the new coach can get them to at least a bowl so they can start to enjoy the money that goes along with putting in long hours.

Good luck to VSU, new coach and his staff!

Recruiting restrictions
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What cannot be signed:
Players with poor discipline
Cannot oversign the roster limit. (Meaning no cut players)

Until a winning season is established, VSU can only do the following:
Sign six 3* players
Sign players only from Georgia and Florida.
Sign as many 1* and 2* as possible.

When a winning season occurs (7 wins to 9 wins):
Sign six 4* players
Sign as many 1*, 2*, and 3* as possible
Sign only from the Southern region (ALA, FL, GA, SC, TN)
May accept lower conference bids

When a season of 10 plus wins occurs:
Sign three 5* players
Sign as many 1*, 2*, 3*, and 4* as possible
Sign players from the East Coast to the Mississippi River

When a National Championship season occurs:
Allowed to sign from all over the country from the NC season forward.
Allowed to sign as many players as possible, regardless of stars.