Coaching Buyouts and Contract Extensions Thread

[ELA]

Meanwhile, every Big Ten West coach just has to promise a better offense than Iowa


https://twitter.com/JeffRabjohns/status/1730744811659882572?t=ywZ6YzOW7V4mlQ5tCXYvQg&s=19

Is this guy actually going to do the impossible and make Indiana football hatable?


https://twitter.com/mfarrellsports/status/1738384008742887739?t=_2-BZqaoKjEDavXQvA82ug&s=19

[847badgerfan]

Sounds like a real DB to me.

[betarhoalphadelta]

That's usually what I expect from their basketball coaches...

[FearlessF]

maybe he will be as successful as the Basketball coaches

[bayareabadger]

I was listening to someone talk about this, and I think it would impact coaching buyouts and such. CFB needs to do away with the early signing day.

That change really moved things up with coach firings. I don't know if that change reverses things, but it can't hurt. 

[FearlessF]

Coaches have been getting fired mid-season for years 

[ELA]

I was listening to someone talk about this, and I think it would impact coaching buyouts and such. CFB needs to do away with the early signing day.

That change really moved things up with coach firings. I don't know if that change reverses things, but it can't hurt.

The early signing day either needs to go away, or actually be early.  Like before the season for kids who want to enjoy their senior year.  Granted then, a kid is going to sign, blow up, and then try to get out of it for a better offer, and the school will be villainized if they don't let him.  Which is how we are here

[bayareabadger]

Coaches have been getting fired mid-season for years

Feels more common now, since you have to get a coach in place two weeks before signing day. 

[FearlessF]

or more normal

[bayareabadger]

The early signing day either needs to go away, or actually be early.  Like before the season for kids who want to enjoy their senior year.  Granted then, a kid is going to sign, blow up, and then try to get out of it for a better offer, and the school will be villainized if they don't let him.  Which is how we are here

And coaches will get buyers remorse and find a way to shift things around. 

A few years back, I remember listening to a coach who sort of crystalized it for me. He explained a kid in his class was thinking about delaying until the second signing period. He told the kid's coach in no uncertain terms, they kid signs early or not at all (kid got the better of it). In the end, one group has control and the other has a sort of illusory control. A few kids are talented to lead staffs around by the nose, but most aren't. The villainized part, never really matters. Jim Harbaugh got that treatment. Now look who cares. 

I know the coaches wanted that summer signing period. They should. It benefits them. When someone comes to fire them, they can say "wait, I have this talent locked in. It's tied to us." (but really tied to "me") And the genius of a coach is he can wriggle out of the ones he doesn't want, or massage them out of the program. 

[CatsbyAZ]

More borderline fraud and embezzlement from Scottward at LSU.

LSU fired DC Matt House whose truly awful work on the defensive side of the LoS oversaw a Total D ranked 105th, Scoring D ranked 78th, Passing D ranked 115th, Rushing D ranked 85th, 3rd Down Conversion ranked 114th, and Red ZONE D ranked 109th.

At LSU mind you! Despite a salary of $1.9M!

I remember several seasons ago when I whined why Pelini was paid so much as an LSU assistant for equivalently embarrassing work, @MikeDeTiger explained Pelini's bloated salary as coming with the territory of LSU amounting to higher profile work.

Fair enough, but Scottward turns around and hires Missouri's DC Blake Baker for $2.5M!

"Baker has reportedly agreed to a three-year deal that will pay him $2.5 million annually. That contract will make him the highest-paid assistant coach in college football."

"According to a copy of the contract obtained by the The Advocate, LSU paid Baker’s $950,000 buyout at Missouri."


https://twitter.com/shreveporttimes/status/1743708017915257083

[FearlessF]

it's only money

[MikeDeTiger]

More borderline fraud and embezzlement from Scottward at LSU.

IMO, we should've seen it coming when LSU decided to hire Patton Oswalt for an AD.