So this is life for a college football coach after a buyout
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I love to hear him tell the story about how they told him he was fired. He was all pissed and wanted to say his goodbyes and such. They said no, you have to leave. Got pissed again, then they told him how much they were paying him to leave and he asked "which door you want me to sneak out of?". Dude is a classic.
Head coaching is a gold mine. If you can somehow work your way into the position, you're gonna get paid one way or the other. And, usually, the bigger you fail, the bigger the pay day.
Once you are in the top level of college football coaching as a head coach or coordinator, you are pretty well set for life.
Sort of like working in government. Oh wait most of college football is government. Nevermind.
Our esteemed AD sure made our departed coach a very rich man and undeservedly so. Wish his buyout had had to have come out of his AD pocket. Guess what? I wouldn't have happened.
I read a book about Ole Miss recruiting when Coach O was there...Coach O drinks about 12 Red Bulls a day so he alot of energy to work off.
Give it a rest. Most contracts are engineered, supported and endorsed by the BOT. They also know that all coaches are getting big buyouts. The only ones that dont are those who are so good they retire from the position. Never heard of a coach getting a 4 million buyout these days. If their buyout gets that low, they are being bought by another football program, who is "All In" on football as our nemesis from the upstate claims. It is just the finances of big time college football
Yeah. The Muschamp buyout sucked but people act like Ray unilaterally pulled this deal off. That contract passed through multiple layers of approval and ultimately had to be approved by the BOT, which is loaded up with lawyers, doctors and business people. In reality, aside from Ray saying he wanted to extend Muschamp, he probably didn't have a very large part in the negotiation of the buyout. He's not a lawyer or a businessman, so why would he?
And, honestly, though most of our fans wouldn't admit it, things were looking quite up after Year 2 under Muschamp. We'd gone 3-9 in 2015, including a loss to the Citadel. Muschamp took us to bowl game in Year 1, which included a nice win over a ranked UT. Year 2 saw us jump to 9 wins over Florida and UT and then Michigan in the Outback Bowl. His first 2 seasons are actually quite similar to Beamer's.
College football is very reactionary these days. If a coach sniffs success, other programs are circling like vultures looking to pick him off, so you HAVE to lock him up. Look at what MSU did with Mel Tucker. His career coaching record is 23-21. He went 5-7 at CU then 2-5 at Michigan then popped to 11-2 and they gave him a fully guaranteed $95 million contract...all based on one good season...and he followed that up by going 5-7 last year.
LONG gone are the days of a coach proving himself over a period of several years before scoring a big pay day. If a coach gets a hint of success early on at a school, his agent is gonna score him a big pay day. Shoot, look what we did with Beamer, who has two total seasons of head coaching experience to his credit.
It's just the nature of the game these days. It's all high risk, high reward. Everyone is so desperate to find the next hot head coach that programs are willing to roll the dice and throw big money at anyone who shows a little bit of promise.