After call from Georgia, Foster gets new deal at Virginia Tech
Bud Foster won’t become Georgia’s new defensive coordinator, but the Bulldogs’ overtures to bring him to Athens will pay off for the highly respected coach.
Hours after acknowledging contact from UGA about its job, Foster late Monday agreed to new financial terms to remain at Virginia Tech.
“I’ve been approached for jobs -– the strongest one was Georgia -– and [Virginia] Tech came through with a package that’s going to keep me here,” Foster said Monday night in Blacksburg, Va., according to the Daily Press of Newport News, Va. “I’m pleased with that.
“On the table right now, there’s a nice situation for me to want to continue here and stay here.”
Virginia Tech said terms of the new deal, which had been in the works since the weekend, will not be released until it is finalized. But the key element is an annuity that will pay Foster a lump sum if he remains at the school another five years.
Foster, 50, is in his 23rd year at Virginia Tech, his 15th as defensive coordinator. He is making $402,000 this year.
Georgia coach Mark Richt is seeking a replacement for Willie Martinez, the defensive coordinator who was fired along with two other UGA defensive coaches on Dec. 2.
Earlier Monday, Foster confirmed through a spokesman that he had been approached by Georgia at some point since Martinez was fired.
“He said he has been contacted,” Virginia Tech associate athletics director Dave Smith said by e-mail in mid-afternoon, “but that’s it.”
Asked at the time if “that’s it” meant talks with Georgia hadn’t progressed beyond initial stages, Smith replied: “That would be my take, but the only other thing [Foster] said was there really isn’t anything else to say.”
A few hours later, he said he’s staying at Virginia Tech.
Although Richt has made no public comments about Georgia’s search, candidates widely rumored to be on his radar include Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, Kansas State defensive coordinator Vic Koenning and Buffalo Bills defensive-line coach Bob Sanders, among others. Smart, a former Georgia player, has said he is “not looking to go anywhere.”
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December 14th, 2009
10:40 pm
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Jazzy J
December 14th, 2009
10:42 pm
And Foster also talked to FSU & UF, not just UGA.
bigdawg88
December 14th, 2009
10:42 pm
UNC outspend UGA? Ha ha ha. Look at the athletic spending for 2007. Do you see UNC on there?
1.Ohio State———-$109,000,000
2.U of Florida——–$108,000,000
3.U of Texas———-$105,000,000
4.U of Tennessee——$ 95,000,000
5.U of Michigan——-$ 89,000,000
6.U of Wisconsin——$ 83,000,000
7.U of Alabama——–$ 81,946,000
8.Auburn University—$ 81,697,000
9.L.S.U.—————$ 76,499,000
10.Penn State———$ 76,327,000
11.U of Georgia——-$ 75,937,000
12. U of Nebraska—–$ 71,000,000
13.U. of Oklahoma—–$ 69,431,000
14.Texas A&M———-$ 69,413,000
Carolina’s budget last year was $61M. Considering what they spend for bb I don’t think they want to get into a spending war over football coaches.
Tom
December 14th, 2009
10:44 pm
Just b/c a coach says he’s “staying put” doesn’t mean anything. Look at Rich Rod, or Brian Kelly. Michigan and Notre Dame WERE great programs, but not anymore. I’m not impressed with Rich Rod at all. kelly will be horrible. and he should be for walking out on his players before the biggest game in the history of the program.
Just b/c you win at smaller schools in weaker conferences doesn’t mean you can hang with the big boys. i don’t trust a coach’s word at all unless their current school ups the $$$$
bull - dykes
December 14th, 2009
10:48 pm
bull dykes rule!
Only a 7-5 bull dyke team can celebrate beating Tech. That’s all we’ve done this year.
TX A&M is going to make us eat our own strap ons.
Jazzy J
December 14th, 2009
10:50 pm
bull – dykes……..that’s what you see on the Tech campus. Or is that Agnes Scott?
Paul in RDU
December 14th, 2009
10:51 pm
bigdawg88
December 14th, 2009
10:42 pm
If hiring a DC is all about how much money a school has to spend (and you seem to be trying to make that point in your post directed at the UNC fan) what makes you think that UGA (#11 on your lost) can hire Muschamp from TX (#3) or Smart from ALA (#7)?
Heck – based on your post, UGA will have to hope FLA (#1) isn’t after the same people.
bull - dykes
December 14th, 2009
10:52 pm
Jazzy J :
That’s what we see in our locker room at ugay. Rosie O’donnell polishing our red and black strap ons.
Are you sad because you didn’t get one?
Pop Tarts National Champions '90
December 14th, 2009
10:53 pm
UGAY! UGAY! UGAY! UGAY!…
I feel so much better now that I insulted all you redneck, trailer trash, leg humper Georgia fans (especially since most of you are my neighbors). I think it’s really neat-o how you can just put a “y” at the end of UGA and insinuate that that everyone who is a fan of the school is gay. That’s makes me giggle every time I see it. HA! HA!, You’re uGAY!
Jazzy J
December 14th, 2009
10:54 pm
Get a life bd. Or is it DB?
flagboy?
December 14th, 2009
10:55 pm
yep old fyodor, that comeback only took you somewhere in the range of 15 minutes or so. I’m beginning to think “The Idiot” was autobiographical.
It is unfortunate to see you confusing language and grammar; unfortunate, but not surprising.
And I’m sure old E.E. “Cummins” would be proud as punch to hear you supporting his writing. Then again, he’d probably be even more happy if you’d spell his name correctly. Cummings.
Now, carry on with your intellectual superiority show.
The rest of us will discuss football.
bull - dykes
December 14th, 2009
10:56 pm
pop tarts:
sounds like you just pumped the neighbors cat. Now get that grin off your face and get back to your double wide.
BE#3
December 14th, 2009
10:56 pm
Vic Koenning is going to be the DC.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
10:59 pm
ROFLMAO!!! A DC from the weak sister A She She turned down the honor of coaching at the greatest college program in the greatest conference on the planet?!?!?!!
Doesn’t he know that UGAy just won the national title in 1980? WTF.
What is the world coming to?
Paul in RDU
December 14th, 2009
11:00 pm
Actually – to be true to him you should go with e e cummings (no caps)
He must have been the anti-BOOGIE
flagboy?
December 14th, 2009
11:04 pm
holy crap. i cannot believe a dawg blog has turned literary.
for the record, he signed books E. E. Cummings. . .
holy hell. . . surely this is one of the signs of the apocolypse.
Dostoyevskiy
December 14th, 2009
11:04 pm
bigdawg, outspending in itself deserves very little merit. I believe UNC receives more donations from alumni than UGa, they just prefer to apply it to education first. That said, I don’t believe UGa has better athletic facilities than UNC, maybe a larger football stadium (not better, and certainly not as attractive), but not better overall facilities. UNC has the bucks to spend on whatever it wants to spend them on. If a coach were to leave UNC for another school, it would not be because UNC could not afford the coach. If you think otherwise, you simply are ill-informed. UNC is a powerful force in both academics and sports.
BE#3
December 14th, 2009
11:04 pm
GT Joe — he also turned down the Mighty Gators. And FSU. There was never any mention of a job offer from any of those schools so Foster did not turn an offer down. He is just content to stay in the hills of SW Va and beat up on weaker teams in the ACC.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
11:04 pm
On a serious note, dogs will need to look for a DC on the high school level since their two biggest rivals (UF and GT) run high school offenses.
Camden County has a good D.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
11:06 pm
He turned down FS Who? That program is more “has been” than UGA.
So Richt didn’t offer him the job eh? Guess he was just calling to see if he wants to join his bible study?
Caleb King
December 14th, 2009
11:07 pm
I’m still running………..
BE#3
December 14th, 2009
11:08 pm
And what do you have to say about him “turning down” the Florida job????
Fuuf
December 14th, 2009
11:09 pm
NEWS FLASH:
Foster also turned Florida down as well as Florida State.
I’m sure he and his family are happy there in Blacksburg, he got the cash he wanted too.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
11:09 pm
Hey Caleb, can you coach D?
Caleb King
December 14th, 2009
11:10 pm
No, but I sho’ schooled the Tech D.
CatsFly
December 14th, 2009
11:11 pm
Bigdawg, UGa spent almost 76 mil on athletics, ranking 11th among colleges, and got 6 wins in football and a laughing stock of a basketball team. Sounds like money well spent to me.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
11:13 pm
Guys, he turned down the gators like in the late 90s. Please, join the current decade before its over.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
11:14 pm
I guarantee foster wouldnt turn down the gators THIS year.
You have to realize, VT and UGA are roughly equivalent nowadays. Difference is, UGA is on a downward trajectory.
bigdawg88
December 14th, 2009
11:16 pm
RD & Dosoyevskiy,
I didn’t start the fire, someone else did by saying that UNC can outspend UGA. BULL! Not on football! 92K seats trumps 60K seats. SEC football trumps ACC football. UGA football > UNC football. As good as his defense has been the past two years UNC has gone 8-5 and 8-4 (so far), which are very good years for them. Team defense in the top team, but offense is below 100. Why stay at a mediocre acc program when you can come to a (soon to be again) top tier sec program, unless you’re in line for HC like Foster is? Davis isn’t going anywhere soon and UNC is not going to keep spending big bucks on the football program.
And as i said to the tech folks, it doesn’t matter how much money you have, it matters how much interest there is in your program. UNC doesn’t care that much about football as UGA does. If we were talking bb it would be the opposite.
Jazzy J
December 14th, 2009
11:16 pm
Actually, GT Joe, he was contacted by Urban Meyer, who at last check, was the CURRENT HC at UF. This has been reported by: Hokies Journal is reporting Bud Foster has agreed to a new deal at Virginia Tech after recently talking with UGA, Florida, and Florida State.
Jazzy J
December 14th, 2009
11:19 pm
“In recent weeks, Georgia Coach Mark Richt made the most serious overture toward Foster about the Bulldogs’ opening at defensive coordinator. Foster said Urban Meyer of Florida and Jimbo Fisher of Florida State also called him about the defensive coordinator vacancies at their programs.” http://voices.washingtonpost.com/hokies-journal/2009/12/foster_staying_at_va_tech.html#more
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
11:24 pm
So he was offered by Meyer (and spurrier in 1998, btw). That’s pure SPECULATION. But the FACT is Richt called Foster.
Also, Meyer just offered the job to Tyrone Nix last week, so I guess Foster was his 2nd choice (if at all).
If he turned down FSU and UF, then he would definitely turn down UGA… no one should be surprised.
wishful thinking
December 14th, 2009
11:26 pm
I think “Tiger” should be asked…. if he is able to get out of this mess he will be able to display a heck of a defense. Go DAWGS!
Jazzy J
December 14th, 2009
11:27 pm
He was contacted by Spurrier in 2007 re: DC job at Carolina.
And it’s not speculation when he personally admitted he had been contacted by UF and FSU. “Foster said Urban Meyer of Florida and Jimbo Fisher of Florida State also called him about the defensive coordinator vacancies at their programs”
GSP
December 14th, 2009
11:28 pm
GT Joe,
Have you been drinking tonight? Please step out of the car.
Dostoyevskiy
December 14th, 2009
11:28 pm
flagboy, since we are talking language, and in this case, lexicon, “the Idiot” is a rather inaccurate translation of “besy”, or devels, albeit not yours. Trust me, I am aware the role that morphology, phonology and syntax play in language, both in diachronic and in synchronic linguistics. Don’t try to school me here, you will be out your element.
Barack Rack 'em Obama
December 14th, 2009
11:30 pm
Rack ‘em, rack ‘em, rack rack rack ‘em
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
11:30 pm
Okay leg humpers. Congratulations. Bud Foster also turned down UF and FSU. Maybe your program ISN’T in the toilet after all.
bigdawg88
December 14th, 2009
11:31 pm
Nix turned down Meyer?
Dang, the wheels are falling off the uf bus…. Welcome to our hell!
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
11:32 pm
Seriously though, Camden County…Great defense… Sic em dogs!
Willie James Huff
December 14th, 2009
11:32 pm
30-24
CatsFly
December 14th, 2009
11:33 pm
Dos…, are you related to the Karamazov brothers?
Bo Williams
December 14th, 2009
11:35 pm
Help, I’m being strangled by syllabic synharmonism.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
11:37 pm
BCS Bowl
JacketFan
December 14th, 2009
11:46 pm
Zulu – jeez, I totally forgot he went to E. Mich. Damn … re-tard-ed. My bad.
Bo Williams
December 14th, 2009
11:49 pm
Dos, you sound erudite, but you can’t type for beans.
Bo Williams
December 14th, 2009
11:56 pm
Maybe flagboy will edit for you.
BuLLdawg
December 15th, 2009
1:06 am
WE RUN THIS STATE…ALL THE WAY TO SHREEEEEVE – A – STINKIN – PORT!
Heck yeah, it’s SHREVEPORT, folks! We’re all going there together with our 5 loss team (yes, KENTUCKY did happen…it’s not a bad dream).
WE ARE . . SHREEVE – Port . .
WE ARE . . SHREEVE – Port . .
WE ARE . . SHREEVE – Port . .
YEAH, BABY! SHREEEEEVE – A – STINKIN – PORT!
$1.4 million bowl vs our $14 MILLION BOWL
December 15th, 2009
7:08 am
Hahaha. georgia’s DC interviewing process could become more demoralizing than SHREVEPORT! Hahahahaha.
militaryDawgInDC
December 15th, 2009
7:22 am
va tech is not elite…UGA has the same amount of BCS wins as the entire acc combined….