If hes gone its definitely a loss – nice to have a former O-Coordinator as your TE coach.

The Republic is reporting that Bryce Erickson, the coach’s son, has been promoted from a GA position to runningbacks coach. Matt Lubick gets to add assistant head coach to his title. Cozzetto’s salary will be spread out among the rest of the staff.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2009-02-15-furloughs_N.htm

Coaches aren’t exempt from the furlough’s being implemented by the university.

But even at Arizona State — whose athletics program is financially self-supporting except for “very nominal” assistance from the university, says athletics director Lisa Love — football coach Dennis Erickson and men’s basketball coach Herb Sendek are being forced to lose 12 days’ pay between Feb. 2 and the close of the school’s fiscal year, June 30. (Depending on job classification, Arizona State’s furloughs, announced Jan. 28, are for 10, 12 or 15 days — double to triple the days being lost by employees of the other three schools.)

Erickson’s and Sendek’s deductions are being taken against their base salaries, just part of much broader and more lucrative compensation packages. Still, Erickson will lose $20,800 of a scheduled $450,000 and Sendek $13,600 of a scheduled $292,000, according to university spokeswoman Terri Shafer.

Love, whose formal title is vice president for university athletics, has a 15-day furlough like other high-ranking university officials, including President Michael Crow. The university has had to make $88 million in budget cuts in fiscal 2009, and the furloughs are projected to save $24 million, or about 1,200 jobs.

In athletics “we spend what we make,” Love says. "But we are part of the university.

Do coaches actually have to physically not work for their furlough day, or can they simply stay on the job without pay? Are there some sort of employment laws that dicate that they literally cannot do their jobs? Most coaches seem to be manic enough that I would almost guess they’d keep their regular schedule and just mark days down to take out of their paycheck.

And Dirk, regarding Bryce’s duties when he initially arrived on campus — was ASU really that concerned about Dennis getting into trouble again? My understanding was that the DUI was awhile ago and was a 1 time thing. It always infuriates me when the troglodytes down south try and give DE a hard time about it while ignoring the fact that their own coach has one as well. Not that I would excuse either man from showing horrible judgement, but ye gods — how hypocritical can you get???