Coaching Buyouts and Contract Extensions Thread

[847badgerfan]

That does not look the part of an athletic director.

Athletic food hall sampler, yes.

AD, no. 

[ELA]

He looks like the comic who was the friend on King of Queens

[847badgerfan]

Have they been seen together?

[MikeDeTiger]

A perfect case study for this thread. The man who set up TWO(!) SEC Athletic programs for financial ruin:

Sort of.  Probably just us.  He set up A&M for a lot of financial pain in the ass, but they aren't even closed to ruined by this.  

[CatsbyAZ]

He looks like the comic who was the friend on King of Queens

But also like:




Outkick turns discussion of Syracuse's Dino Babers buyout into a fitting bashing of Scott Woodward:


https://twitter.com/Outkick/status/1726308238000640119

This is exactly the point I've made for years!!! - "Athletic directors, university presidents, and all the money men need to slow down on the raises and extensions after one great year. Too often, that one great season is never duplicated after the fat raise and extension hits the coach. And too often the powers that be at schools are so quick to reward because they want to reward themselves for supposedly making the right hire. They want to say, “Look, we’ve arrived.”"

"That was the case with Orgeron after winning the national championship at LSU in 2019. He was already in his dream job making $4 million a year, and no one was trying to hire him. Yet, LSU athletic director Scott Woodward gave him a six-year extension and a raise to $7 million a year."

"And less than two years later, Woodward fired Orgeron. Like Babers, he started free falling soon after the new contract ink dried. He dropped to 5-5 in 2020 and to 4-3 in 2021. Orgeron walked away with a $17 million buyout. Great fiscal job, Scott."

"It was also Woodward who hired Fisher away from Florida State after the 2017 season for $75 million over 10 years – the richest contract for a college football coach at the time in history. Had Woodward looked beyond the national championship in 2013 and the excellent years around it, he may have noticed something. Fisher was 5-6 in 2017. The program was descending. And Fisher didn’t want to stay anyway. So, Woodward could’ve hired him for much cheaper. But Woodward wanted to show off."

The article could've gone further, noting Woodward's awful follow on work at LSU, similarly vastly overpaying Brian Kelly.

[847badgerfan]

Just plain bad decision making with other peoples' money.

He'd fit in perfectly in DC.

[847badgerfan]

[847badgerfan]

@betarhoalphadelta should be happy. His Boilers got the IU head coach whacked.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Yeah, doubt it was us when this:



Was followed by a 3-9 season. 

[ELA]

Elko to Texas A&M.  We'll see if the fans get pissed again, and they revoke

[utee94]

Elko to Texas A&M.  We'll see if the fans get pissed again, and they revoke

This is the craziest coaching search saga I think I've ever seen.  How on Earth did they fire Jimbo without having the succession plan already in place?

[Cincydawg]

The Tennessee stories were pretty amazing back a few.

[FearlessF]

they almost never have a great succession plan already in place

[medinabuckeye1]

This is the craziest coaching search saga I think I've ever seen.  How on Earth did they fire Jimbo without having the succession plan already in place?

The only succession plans that would have justified that buyout would have been to have a deal inked with Saban or Meyer.