According to TOS JR Sandlin is no longer the Director of Recruiting for football

[Orange Daddy]

$55,000 is not low for a director of recruiting/recruiting coordinator (or whatever the school calls it). That job is pretty low on the totem pole.

Now I'm gonna take thrashing beating for posting this LONG LONG clip but its interesting to me anyway.

The highest-paid on-field assistants are offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian and defensive coordinator John Jancek, who each make $475,000 annually.

SUPPORT STAFF
Dave Lawson, Strength Coach: $175,000
J.R. Sandlin, Director of Recruiting: $55,000
Chris Spognardi, Assistant to the Head Coach: $60,000
Mike Szerszen, Associate Strength Coach: $60,000
Greg Adamson, Assistant Strength Coach: $46,000
Brandon Myles, Assistant Strength Coach: $37,000
Joe Bernardi, Offensive Quality Control: $28,018
Terry Fair, Defensive Quality Control: $20,010
Greg Meyer, Special Teams Quality Control: $20,010
Keith Pantling, Recruiting Assistant: $50,000
RETAINED STAFF*

David Blackburn, senior associate AD for administration: $170,000
Jason McVeigh, Director of sports medicine: $110,000
Brad Pendergrass, Director of football operations: $102,000
Scott Altizer, director of high school relations: $95,000
Joe Harrington, sports technology coordinator: $85,680
Condredge Holloway, Student-athlete relations/letterman: $85,170
Antoine Davis, VFL coordinator: $57,500
Roger Frazier, head equipment manager: $68,203
Max Parrott, assistant to equipment manager: $39,159
Heather Ervin, assistant director of football operations: $32,802
Allen Sitzler, assistant to equipment manager: $28,059
Total new staff: $551,038
Total retained staff: $873,573
Total support staff: $1.425 million

* Salary info on UT support staff was released last June.

ASSISTANT COACHING STAFF
Mike Bajakian, OC: $475,000
John Jancek, DC: $475,000
Steve Stripling, DL: $380,000
Don Mahoney, OL: $350,000
Tommy Thigpen, LB: $345,000
Zach Azzanni, WR: $300,000
Willie Martinez, Secondary: $280,000
Jay Graham, RB: $260,000
Mark Elder, TE: $220,000
Total: $3,085,000

HEAD COACH

Butch Jones signed a 6-year deal worth $3 million annually. The contract has not yet been finalized, but a memorandum of understanding was released last month.

TOTAL FOR ALL STAFF MEMBERS: $7

 

[Orange Daddy]

See the VFL coordinator makes $57k for being a Vol For LIFE ...cool....

 

[Nashvegas31]

Freak out!!!! Bammer spy is gone! What will we do! If jr was that important Sabah wouldn't have let him leave Bama. Sounds like he wasn't what butch expected.

 

[Dougie_D]

I don't know full details and honestly the position is not a big deal. My guess is we are going to promote someone already part of our staff or get an intern.

If you think we used him to snag recruits you are embarrassing yourself.

He was either asked to work for less pay or to be eventually "laid" off. Keith Pantling left as well for probably the same reason.

Sandlin was an intern at Alabama essentially doing the EXACT same thing.

 

[VOLINVONORE]

Anybody know what the reason for his being replaced? Seems to me he was doing a pretty good job so far.

Don't know, but i don't miss him at all.

 

[Boca Vol]

Collaborate with guy who came up with "Rise to the Occasion"?

I made that point way back in this thread

Nope, that was the Adidas basketball postseason campaign for all of their schools, Rise to the Top was developed independently.

Wow! That took a ton of creativity.