Coaching Buyouts and Contract Extensions Thread

[FearlessF]

Stevie Shiny pants spurrier

[bayareabadger]

Nick Saban.  Jimmy Johnson.  Barry Switzer.  Chuck Fairbanks.

Switzer was run out of college for Switzer stuff, and going 16 years at a place, then taking six years off, then jumping doesn’t feel like “parlaying” to me. Same for Spurrier, he played out a mostly full career and then bounced. 

Saban, Johnson and Fairbanks fit the bill to me. 

[MarqHusker]

Jim Caldwell.  It seems the world forgot he coached Wake Forest.

Chan Gailey see sawed between college  HC gigs and NFL gigs.

[FearlessF]

I forgot

[CatsbyAZ]

Jim Caldwell.  It seems the world forgot he coached Wake Forest.

NEVER knew that about Caldwell! 

Looking up his time there, he went 26-63 with a 12-52 conference record, and only ONE winning season (7-5 in 1999).

Maybe that’s why nobody remembers.

[bayareabadger]

Jim Caldwell.  It seems the world forgot he coached Wake Forest.

Chan Gailey see sawed between college  HC gigs and NFL gigs.

Both those guys where college coaches that got NFL jobs, but I don’t think they could be characterized as turning P5 head coaching jobs into NFL head coach jobs. 

[CWSooner]

Dave Wannstadt?

[DevilFroggy]

Todd Graham, after enjoying a nice 2 year vacation upon his dismissal from ASU, was named head coach at Hawaii.

While at the time of his firing I wasn't exactly thrilled about it, in hindsight it was the right move. His stricter disciplinarian style was exactly what ASU needed after the way too lax Erickson, and his efforts helping ASU greatly improved their football facilities and stadium should not be dismissed.

That said, over time once his better assistants kept getting poached and he was having a harder time replacing them with someone of equal quality his recruiting hit rate really fell off, especially costly ignoring CA HS recruits (no halfway decent ASU team ever existed without it's fair share of CA kids) and that ultimately sealed his fate.

He did however leave the ASU football program overall in a better condition than when he found it so I will always wish him well. Hope he has success at Hawaii.

[CWSooner]

Todd Graham has had at least some success at all of his stops, including the University of Tulsa, where he took the team into South Bend and beat Notre Dame.

But he's a slimeball.

[847badgerfan]

Todd Graham, after enjoying a nice 2 year vacation upon his dismissal from ASU, was named head coach at Hawaii.

While at the time of his firing I wasn't exactly thrilled about it, in hindsight it was the right move. His stricter disciplinarian style was exactly what ASU needed after the way too lax Erickson, and his efforts helping ASU greatly improved their football facilities and stadium should not be dismissed.

That said, over time once his better assistants kept getting poached and he was having a harder time replacing them with someone of equal quality his recruiting hit rate really fell off, especially costly ignoring CA HS recruits (no halfway decent ASU team ever existed without it's fair share of CA kids) and that ultimately sealed his fate.

He did however leave the ASU football program overall in a better condition than when he found it so I will always wish him well. Hope he has success at Hawaii.

His DREAM job.

For REALZ this time!!

[FearlessF]

LSU is hiring Youngstown State coach Bo Pelini as defensive coordinator, a source confirmed to ESPN.

Pelini, who served as LSU's defensive coordinator from 2005 to 2007 and helped the Tigers to a national championship in 2007, has coached Youngstown State for the past five seasons. An official announcement on Pelini's hiring is expected later Monday. Sports Illustrated first reported the move.

Pelini, 52, replaces Dave Aranda, who served as LSU's defensive coordinator the past four seasons before leaving for the head-coaching job at Baylor. Aranda had been the highest-paid assistant in college football, earning $2.5 million annually.

Pelini is receiving a multiyear contract with an annual salary comparable to Aranda's, which will make him one of college football's highest-paid assistants, sources told ESPN.

Pelini's son, Patrick, noted his father's return to LSU on Twitter.


Pelini is 100-55 as a head coach at Nebraska and Youngstown State. He has served as defensive coordinator at LSU, Oklahoma and Nebraska, and also coached linebackers for three NFL teams between 1994 and 2002.

After being fired by Nebraska following the 2014 season, Pelini returned to Youngstown, Ohio, his hometown, to coach the Penguins.

He guided Youngstown State to the FCS national championship game in his second season but did not win more than six games in any of the other four.

[CatsbyAZ]

Pelini is receiving a multiyear contract with an annual salary comparable to Aranda's, which will make him one of college football's highest-paid assistants, sources told ESPN.

Big mistake paying Pelini anywhere near what they gave to Aranda. LSU should act like they’re doing Pelini a favor - not the other way around. He’s not that great of a recruiter and there’s plenty of equivalent defensive minds out there, but I do think from a personality standpoint he handles himself better as an assistant - out of the spotlight - than as HC.

[MarqHusker]

Pelini has an interesting CV, particularly as a DC.   He auditioned nicely for Solich, to no avail of course after the '03 season, the defensive improvements didn't matter, and Solich and everybody else headed out the door.     Pelini as DC had by and large, very good defenses during this OU/LSU stints

Later, Pelini as HC  (and Carl) really did fashion a helluva a defensive scheme (so called Peso) for the XIIing offenses, his teams really wreaked havoc on the XII QBs during their final few years in the XII (2008-10), managing to have the top scoring D in the country (it helped having Suh no doubt).    Of course, some of aforementioned problems for Pelini (his recruiting shortcomings, not to mention other considerations) left him ill prepared to transition to a league which required totally different schemes defensively.  

[FearlessF]

I look forward to seeing Bo on the sideline again

he is entertaining and I like a coach with some fire/passion, especially defensive guys