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I say increase the buyout significantly, bump the base salary a bit, and add more opportunity for significant bonuses that reward the coach when the university sees significant (financial) benefit. Ten win seasons, BCS bowl games, attendance records, consecutive bowls etc.
If you insist on doing something, this is reasonable (completely unnecessary, but reasonable). But I'll be surprised if that is the outcome.Originally Posted by dawgcrazy
I don't understand why you guys seem so angry about this.
It's a good thing to pay a more competitive coaching salary. If the money is not coming from donations to Q4E (like raising money to send the band could), this is a good thing. And of course we need to raise the buyout.
We can't stop cussing the adm for being cheap before we start cussing them for spending too much money.
My guess is that SD will get a modest raise with an extension and a modestly raised buy out.
Are you new here?!
I hope Sonny stays, and don't have a problem with them renegotiating- although I do agree with your point. But, if we give him more money I expect the buyout to increase substantially too. If not, we just wasted our money. For continuity we are better off with him staying another year or 2- after that if he is here it is because he is losing and that will not be good. If we get a bigger buyout in the contract that will help us attract the next new coach. If TECH wins we will be the training ground until we get ourselves in a better position.
How about he just keep going under his CONTRACT and what he agreed to....
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I'd agree, but that isn't how it works in college football or sports in general. Schools never, except ulm, let the contract play out. The coach is fired, given an extension, or hired away all prior to the conclusion of the contract.
I'd be all for letting it play out if coaches generally left to a bigger school after their contract ended, but they don't.
The other reason for this is recruiting. When coaches are pitching their school to a kid, the theory is that it helps to have "proof" that they'll be around for the duration of that kid's playing time. If you tell a recruit, come play for us for the next 4-5 years and he asks how come you're only under contract for one more year I guess it would seem funny to say "well, when I finish this contract, then the school and I will negotiate for a new one."
.. and if it comes from the budgets of MBB, WBB, and Baseball??
I hope that the increase is all from the foundation. Might as well eliminate the incentives as well since if you do good, we'll just renegotiate.
I was thinking along the lines of increases in football money from tickets, sponsorships, something like that.
I'm not an expert, I'm just saying I don't think it is a waste of money as long as we are not taking away from facilities. I don't know enough about the budget to tell you exactly where it should come from.
To answer your question, my personal opinion: MBB not ok, WBB ok, baseball ok.
All of this contract extension is about recruiting. I seriously doubt he gets much of a raise. It's just saying to recruits that Sonny is staying another year. We didn't win the WAC championship because of Sonny's high powered offense. We won the WAC because of great play on defense.
expect season ticket prices to go up in 2012
One of the best points in all of this. I wanted to raise it, but wasn't sure how to word it. There is a difference between how things should be and how they are. In the world of college football, coaches who win (even though that is their job) get contract extensions.
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