Coach Dickert

[WillieThePimp]

Tough duty, for sure. I was there at the time of death for father-in-law, Mom, Dad, and my wife. Yeah, here come the tears again just thinking about them and going through that experience. For those that haven't been through that, consider yourself lucky, but it comes down to bucking up and doing what you have to do for those you love. But let me tell you that seeing your loved one being taken away on a gurney from the home they loved for the very last time will really tear you up.

LC, I have a suggestion for you to eliminate the possibility of injury or death to the unlucky semi driver. Find a rural high speed train crossing where you can conveniently have "car trouble" right on the track. Those mile long freight trains win every time.

Wife’s cousin lost his wife this summer after 7 years of dealing with breast CA recurrence. At the end it was many weeks dealing with her in denial, no sleep, bathing, diaper changes and all that entails, and dealing with unhelpful hospice trying to limit her pain meds “because she might became addicted” - left him utterly exhausted and numb. Doing surprisingly well now but he did have a 7-year goodbye.

Getting older and facing mortality can be brutal and with limits on resources available ( mainly caregivers) and soaring costs it’s just going to get rougher. God help anyone ( probably most of us) that ends up in a facility - they are mostly designed to bleed all of your finances dry while providing the minimum amount of care possible.

 

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Wife’s cousin lost his wife this summer after 7 years of dealing with breast CA recurrence. At the end it was many weeks dealing with her in denial, no sleep, bathing, diaper changes and all that entails, and dealing with unhelpful hospice trying to limit her pain meds “because she might became addicted” - left him utterly exhausted and numb. Doing surprisingly well now but he did have a 7-year goodbye.

Getting older and facing mortality can be brutal and with limits on resources available ( mainly caregivers) and soaring costs it’s just going to get rougher. God help anyone ( probably most of us) that ends up in a facility - they are mostly designed to bleed all of your finances dry while providing the minimum amount of care possible.

How sad for him to have to deal with a hospice with that attitude. It just makes it so much harder on the person and the caregivers. Hospice of North Idaho was very good in their care/treatment of my wife. It wasn't so much a worry about getting addicted as it was a matter of balancing the use of the meds to the proper amount because they would lose their efficiency if overused. When the life is on the verge of ending it matters not if one gets addicted for a short period of time.

 

[How_did_this_happen?]

There's a better way today. Fentanyl. That's my plan. OD on fentanyl.

I do not believe there is a more cruel disease than Alzheimer's and all it's related b¥!|shit. My dad had the Lewey body form and it stripped away his personality and his life. As you said, loyal, I ain't doing that to my kids. Fentanyl. That's all I have to say about that

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[chugspig]

I'm pretty dam bloody sure that Dickert is getting AT LEAST 2 MIL.

Either 2 mil + bonuses, or 1.75 mil + bonuses that push Dickert to between 2 to 3 mil per year.

He is guaranteed 7.5 million over 5 years regardless of incentives, plus all the usual stuff like paid travel for his family, tickets, health insurance, car stipend etc. but most of the rest is based of achievements. He probably will make 2 million on an average year where the team is decent

 

[mikalalas]

He is guaranteed 7.5 million over 5 years regardless of incentives, plus all the usual stuff like paid travel for his family, tickets, health insurance, car stipend etc. but most of the rest is based of achievements. He probably will make 2 million on an average year where the team is decent

So like I said probably at least 2 mil per year.

Guarantee that it's just a matter of time, about 1,2,3,4 years, until a G5, MWC, AAC teams hires a Peterson level coach and pays them 2, 2.5, 3, 3.3, etc, mil per year, pay them MORE then what Dickert gets.

Dickert needs to get paid at least 3.3 mil per year at ultimate extreme worst, and needs to be paid more then the highest paid G5 coach, and higher then the 12th highest paid PAC 12 coach.

Anything less is a LOWBALL, UNLOYAL, EXTREMELY CHEAP, PAUL WULF LIKE.

I get that money is Tight, but you either do better at fund raising, or take up a collection plate, or delay things like Stadium, facility improvements, etc, because having a coach like Dickert is of the most value, and will do more to improve WSU's brand, and get WSU more money in future, etc, then almost any other thing.

Paying past WSU coaches like Dickert, Paul Wulf money is how WSU got Paul Wulf, and getting another Paul Wulf, if that happens, will be the quickest way to destroy WSU, in the future.

 

[Coug90]

So like I said probably at least 2 mil per year.

Guarantee that it's just a matter of time, about 1,2,3,4 years, until a G5, MWC, AAC teams hires a Peterson level coach and pays them 2, 2.5, 3, 3.3, etc, mil per year, pay them MORE then what Dickert gets.

Dickert needs to get paid at least 3.3 mil per year at ultimate extreme worst, and needs to be paid more then the highest paid G5 coach, and higher then the 12th highest paid PAC 12 coach.

Anything less is a LOWBALL, UNLOYAL, EXTREMELY CHEAP, PAUL WULF LIKE.

I get that money is Tight, but you either do better at fund raising, or take up a collection plate, or delay things like Stadium, facility improvements, etc, because having a coach like Dickert is of the most value, and will do more to improve WSU's brand, and get WSU more money in future, etc, then almost any other thing.

Paying past WSU coaches like Dickert, Paul Wulf money is how WSU got Paul Wulf, and getting another Paul Wulf, if that happens, will be the quickest way to destroy WSU, in the future.

According to some posters on here Dickert is Paul Wulff 2.0. 2022 Apple Cup defense!!!!

 

[chugspig]

So like I said probably at least 2 mil per year.

Guarantee that it's just a matter of time, about 1,2,3,4 years, until a G5, MWC, AAC teams hires a Peterson level coach and pays them 2, 2.5, 3, 3.3, etc, mil per year, pay them MORE then what Dickert gets.

Dickert needs to get paid at least 3.3 mil per year at ultimate extreme worst, and needs to be paid more then the highest paid G5 coach, and higher then the 12th highest paid PAC 12 coach.

Anything less is a LOWBALL, UNLOYAL, EXTREMELY CHEAP, PAUL WULF LIKE.

I get that money is Tight, but you either do better at fund raising, or take up a collection plate, or delay things like Stadium, facility improvements, etc, because having a coach like Dickert is of the most value, and will do more to improve WSU's brand, and get WSU more money in future, etc, then almost any other thing.

Paying past WSU coaches like Dickert, Paul Wulf money is how WSU got Paul Wulf, and getting another Paul Wulf, if that happens, will be the quickest way to destroy WSU, in the future.

Given the coaches that were interested In the job at the time, signing Dickert to be the HC and guaranteeing him 7.5 million was fair. Should they revisit the # here soon if he keeps up improving the program and representing Pullman? Yes. But he is fairly compensated at the moment. A bigger piece will be $ for assistants rather than $ for Dickert. I see him advocating for raises to keep them before he himself leaves for more $.

 

[425cougfan]

Gotta love college football, especially at a have-not. Lose a couple games? Dude sucks and should be fired. Wins a couple games? Need to extend him with a big raise and he's probably getting poached anyway.

In any case, all this money talk is premature. If the Cougs are in the Mountain West next year, they're not giving Dickert a fat raise. It's just not going to happen. If anything, they might need to get him to take a pay cut, which would be about as awkward as you could get if he was doing well, and only slightly less so if he wasn't. This would be one of numerous painful adjustments that would need to be made. So every time Loyal lets loose with the "we should just join the Mountain West and be done with it" shit in every thread on conference realignment, something like the reality of a transition to Mountain West salaries from Pac-12 salaries is one of many realities that shouldn't be ignored. It's the first thing I thought about when this started getting real, actually. There are no recent or otherwise relevant examples of programs losing power conference status, as far as I am aware, but no program, especially a broke one, is going to pay 150-200% of what the rest of the conference pays, at least for any period of time. Dickert seems like a nice guy, but he's not a chump. If this year goes well and the writing is on the wall regarding pay cuts in the future, with rumors of half the team transferring if P5 status disappears, along with all the other shit that would be coming in future years (recruiting budget cuts, etc.), his agent would be shopping him hard. I don't blame him for that at all.

Almost out of necessity, WSU would just have to get an entirely new staff that was willing to go along with a lower salary structure. Or they'd need to use general university funds to support coaching salaries way above the norm for the conference they were in, at least for a while. Maybe they do that if Dickert and most of the staff somehow stuck around, as would be more likely in a 7-6 kind of situation than a 9-4 kind of situation, in which case they couldn't get a better P4/P5 gig. But they wouldn't be giving out any raises in the same way we might otherwise do it if the conference situation was stable.