This is a friendly reminder that Ryan Day already has a really amazing job, makes millions of dollars a year, can easily retool each year with top recruiting talent, and probably wants no part of fucking up the next 20 years of his already amazing life by working for the shittiest owners in the NFL.
Thanks!
Money talks, but you know...
My guess is Ryan Day will get a Gruden type contract if not more from OSU as Mel Tucker just got 95million from Michigan State.
It would be horrible business practice for the Bears to go THAT long term (10 years) with a HC who has never been a HC in the NFL with minimal NFL experience (QB Coach w/Eagles & 9ers for a year each in '15 & 16). Day is making 7.5 annually and may very well get a raise of over 10 from OSU. If it took 5yr/65ish mil to get him...that shouldn't be an issue for the Bears to pay, but we all know it would be.
With all that being said...all of this talk of a new HC or new GM should be much ado about nothing. It should be about a new team President after Phillips retires/fired/re-assigned. Offer Peyton Manning whatever it takes to be your new team President (an crazy amount of money/small piece of ownership/full autonomy) and let him pick the new GM and go from there.
Whoever Phillips/Pace and so forth picks to be the new HC...I have little confidence they'll get it right and don't deserve to make that decision ever again.