The difficulty is in reverse. Money is not the object to Dana, as they've said he's getting paid big dough for a couple more years from Houston.
The only thing that has a chance to keep him is turning the offense completely over to him, INCLUDING kids he might like in the portal that he needs for this offense next year.
It's been proven we cannot score without him running the offense. It's gonna be a re-tooled offensive line next year, what type of OLmen do we need that we don't have among the returnees and the young kids already in the program?
I think Dana really enjoys calling plays, its up to NU to pony up the kind of dough it takes to bring in 3-4 kids that can make NU a real force offensively.
If Dana chooses to leave, its gonna be a helluva blow to this program. Finally, those offensive kids have a coach who they believe in.