Has anybody else heard

[Porkchop.sixpack]

(or read while I wasn't paying attention to the boad) that Cohen has clause in his contract that permits him to exit his contract without penalties for (and only for) the MSU head coach position?

 

[dawgstudent]

I have heard the exact same thing.

 

[Porkchop.sixpack]

and just confirmed that with a KY alumn.

 

[8dog]

last week someone floated the rumor that Cohen has a buyout for every school but MSU. In other words, MSU/Cohen couldn't get him out of the contract.

If what you say is true, Im surprised Veazey didn' t sniff that out when he go the buyout details last week.

 

[Porkchop.sixpack]

yet, I find that odd as well. But, I have an ex MSU and ex KY baseball player both telling me that it is true.

I also hear that Cohen's wife doesn't want to come to Starkville. Now, perhaps that is because she has found that she really likes Lexington (which is a very nice town in my book.) But, it would seem odd to negotiate that very specific clause into a contract knowing that your wife feels that way.

 

[Todd4State]

around Starkville as I'm sure that it has changed A LOT since they were last here in all likelihood.

I'll go so far as to say that I wouldn't mind living in Starkville now.

 

[bulldogcountry1]

nm

 

[Duane Chapman]

and I believe it's you.

There doesn't appear to be a difference in the rumor you heard last week, that

Cohen has a buyout for every school but MSUand this one

and this one

Cohen has clause in his contract that permits him to exit his contract without penalties for (and only for) the MSU head coach position

 

[8dog]

I don't remember exactly what the post last week said but I don't really understand your post. Do you know which post I am referring to?

Edited: Found it: Click here

The way I read the linked post is that there is no buyout for msu. maybe the poster meant that msu could hire him without paying but if so, he misspoke. If you don't have a buyout for a school or a specific provisions for that school then leaving for that school is a breach of contract. I understood it was a security provision from KY"s standpoint, but obviously it must have been the other way around.

 

[Duane Chapman]

I guess I'm just misreading one of the two

 

[8dog]

d

 

[Duane Chapman]

Not saying you're wrong, I've just been under the thinking that a buyout clause is just a liquidated damages clause. Meaning that if a coach leaves before his contract expires, which would constitute breach, he (or whoever hires him) will be liable for the amount specified in the liquidated damages or "buyout" clause. So unless the clause stipulates differently, (i.e. providing that there shall be no penalty for leaving for a particular school) it will apply to all schools alike.

 

[1984Dawg]

I was thinking that MSU being excluded from the buyout clause meant that we could get him from UK without paying them anything. I thought that would have been something he would have negotiated so as to give MSU the path of least resistance if we wanted him and he wanted to come.

 

[8dog]

so Im going to just not discuss it anymore. That was just how I interpreted that post last week.

 

[Porkchop.sixpack]

this is exactly what I am saying. Cohen can walk over to MSU, take over as our coach, and neither he nor us owes UK anything. He had free reign to coach anywhere he likes without any penatly, as long as it is UK or MSU.

 

[1984Dawg]

I've been trying to edit the post to say that I took your post and the one last week to be saying the same thing, but the edit won't come through.

 

[Duane Chapman]

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