The_Philster
02-02-2003, 09:49 AM
Having decided Thursday that working toward a Super Bowl repeat in 2003 was preferable to working in a San Francisco 49ers organization that some now view as disjointed, Tampa Bay Bucs defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin raised the salary bar for NFL assistant coaches.
Granted, it could be a long time before anyone comes close to the three-year, $5.1 million contract Kiffin got from the Bucs less than an hour before he was to board a flight for a weekend interview with 49ers general manager Terry Donahue.
After all, on a per-year average basis, the Kiffin contract represents a jump of nearly 90 percent over the four-year, $3.6 million deal Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson signed last week. If nothing else, the 49ers are succeeding in making rich men out of coaches who don't want the San Francisco head coaching position, since Donahue had also sought to meet with Johnson about his vacancy....more (http://espn.go.com/nfl/columns/pasquarelli_len/1501839.html)
Granted, it could be a long time before anyone comes close to the three-year, $5.1 million contract Kiffin got from the Bucs less than an hour before he was to board a flight for a weekend interview with 49ers general manager Terry Donahue.
After all, on a per-year average basis, the Kiffin contract represents a jump of nearly 90 percent over the four-year, $3.6 million deal Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson signed last week. If nothing else, the 49ers are succeeding in making rich men out of coaches who don't want the San Francisco head coaching position, since Donahue had also sought to meet with Johnson about his vacancy....more (http://espn.go.com/nfl/columns/pasquarelli_len/1501839.html)