except maybe for one season to get a buyout. The amount of work you have to do to keep your current roster plus still recruit would make me go insane. I'd be running to the NFL if I could.
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There is no way I would want to be a college coach in the current environment...
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Coach just long enough to get fired so I could get that buy out money.
I think every coach who turned down Bama were fools. If there were others. So, what if you fail. You are being fired with a pocket fool of Jack but if you are successful, you have a pocket full of jack and a hand full of rings. They were all cowards. They must have felt insecure about their ability to win. They guy from Washington showed balls.
You never want to be the person that replaces Saban. You want to be the person that replaces the person that replaced Saban.
You may not get another opportunity. You going to win at Bama, you may not win enough for them and would fire you but hell you be able to find another HC job, but you may never get another opportunity to coach at a school like Bama and a butt load of money. I stick by what I say. They were foolish not to take the job. They were cowards.
Which coaches turned down Alabama?
Most coaches are a lot more confident and competitive than to think like that.
17 that. I'll coach Bama for what they're paying. Fire me after a year or two? Oh darn. I'll go sit on my 1,500 acres I bought with 15 million in the bank and not have a care in the world.
The way it's going now you gotta be both a coach and a salesman. Also you are at the mercy of how wealthy your alumni base is and how willing they are to throw gobs of cash at players every year. Also, your investments have no obligations to fulfill and can abandon your school for the next offer with zero repercussions.
You think Ed Orgeron could have made $50 million in an industry other than coaching? The money is absolutely insane for a lot of guys that aren’t exactly rocket scientists.
Perpetual unrestricted free agency is not tenable. And we didn’t need this lesson to learn that. Somebody(s) are asleep at the wheel.
Some people are built for pressure and thrive on it. I am a worrier and a pessimist by nature.
I like calm and relaxed in my old age but I would be a college coach tomorrow if I got paid millions. Do it as long as I could and then go live a life without concern of work any longer. Sounds good to me.
I like calm and relaxed in my old age but I would be a college coach tomorrow if I got paid millions. Do it as long as I could and then go live a life without concern of work any longer. Sounds good to me.
According to who? Their agents?
Go ahead and add Lanning to the list….after all….he released the statement that he was “staying at Oregon!!!” after rumors began to surface.
When it was about winning, yes. But it isn't 2017. The buyouts alone make it nearly worth it just to go get fired.
I still think that a hardass coach is necessary in college. You have to maintain order and discipline, maybe now more than ever.
Sark has a better job.
Norvell never had a shot. The power brokers at Bama saw his photo from his playing days at Central Arkansas and a Boss Hogg looking fella in Tuscaloosa used his veto on Norvell.
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