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Partridge would easily command the highest non-coordinator salary on the staff. Also, Pitt just lost their linebackers coach, so I'd imagine Narduzzi would do everything in his power to not lose Partridge as well. That will cost a pretty penny. Putting together a rockstar defensive staff would be a good thing for any coach. I'd be more than ok with that, although I share your belief that no way is Ash leaving Texas for Illinois. Also, look at the B1G west. A good defense immediately makes you competitive in the division.Partridge is interesting because he's never really been a DC despite being a very prominent assistant and even a head coach at Florida Atlantic. Terrific recruiter in the state of Florida. A guy in high demand, though thanks to the state of Pennsylvania's absurd public records laws, we don't know what he makes despite Pitt being a public school. Well over $500k would not surprise me.
Interestingly, when Bielema initially hired him at Wisconsin, he was titled as the Special Teams Coach, after serving in the same role at Pitt in his first go-round there. Bielema did eventually change his title to AHC/co-DC/DL, and he hasn't been titled ST coach since, but still, hmm.
By the way, Partridge and Chris Ash were college teammates at Drake, along with Dave Doeren.
Would I cheap out on the OC hire to fit Ash and Partridge into the budget? Absolutely not. Would it make a certain amount of cognizable sense of the otherwise utterly inexplicable Petersen hire? Yeah, it kinda would.
And in Ash, Partridge, and Bart Miller you'd have assembled the DB coach, DL coach, and OL coach from Bielema's last Wisconsin team, and Aaron Henry was team captain the year before.
I do not believe Ash would leave Texas for all the money in the world. Still,
I think you need to step back from the OC ledge you keep putting yourself on. I posted earlier that I doubt Petersen was his first choice, but I also think it wasn't necessarily a bad choice. OCs have egos. Many are probably not open to a ball-control dictate from the HC. Many probably prefer prominently passing and/or uptempo spread schemes. One thing about Petersen is his apparent scheme flexibility and lack of ego. I think BB clearly values that more than most.