From the negotiating room

[glm47]

And I also agree , up the pay but up the buyout considerably. Doing this without upping the buyout makes us look stupid and we of course certainly do not want to look stupid!

I agree, 25 years of looking stupid is enough.

[glm47]

Neither side of this debate has to be an attorney to have a business philosophy. BUT...there are many athletic directors who couldn't negotiate their way out of a footbal game with a SWAC school. That should be cause for concern.

Bingo!

[TYLERTECHSAS]

$450,000 goes whole heck of a lot further in Ruston than Washington. Not bad for a first time head coach but not only that its only his 2nd year in the contract and first winning season. I'll wait for the details.....

Leach will be paid a base annual salary of $2 million, with supplemental income of $250,000 a year, plus performance incentives, Athletic Director Bill Moos said.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...#ixzz1fPkSvERD

[Dawg06]

Jason Pugh, The Shreveport Times: LA Tech working on extension for Dykes

Gavin Moberg, KTAL 6: Tech looks to sign Dykes to extension

Adria Goins, KSLA 12: LA Tech to give Dykes contract extension

[DAWG DUDE]

Everyone keeps saying we shouldn't reward him for "doing his job".. but the opposing coach is "doing his job", too.. Not everyone can win (as we've seen with previous coaches). I just don't really understand why you guys wouldn't want to keep around/reward a winner. In college football you have to pay a price to win. If Dykes stays for five years and builds up a program you guys will be so glad we re-negotiated his contract.. and if he loses tons of games.. well, you have to take risks.

[LookingForResults]

What's a contract - toilet paper? I don't buy one ounce of the argument that "that's just the way it is in college athletics."
Let's just forget contracts and make every year free agency. If the coach has a good year, you'll have to pay up the next (as it is we do that anyway), but if he has a bad year we hold the upper hand. The idea that schools have to honor their end of a contract but coaches don't is a krock!

[PawDawg]

BVDV has been spinning out information all day.

I'm still waiting to hear of another team that negotiated a new contract after only two years. Stepping stone teams like Tech certainly don't do it.

[Champ967]

We are more elite than those others.

[johnnylightnin]

.

I'm still waiting to hear of another team that negotiated a new contract after only two years. Stepping stone teams like Tech certainly don't do it.

University of Louisville gave Charlie Strong an extension this year (his second year).

[johnnylightnin]

UNLV did the same thing at the beginning of this year (could technically be considered after his 1st year).

[PawDawg]

I knew you'd dig around and find something.

Well that settles it for me. If UNLV did it we CERTAINLY should do like them.

[johnnylightnin]

Well that settles it for me. If UNLV did it we CERTAINLY should do like them.

How'd I know you'd focus on UNLV instead of Louisville...who offered their 2nd year HC a SEVEN year extension.

And let's not forget, this is NOT a normal year. There are MORE vacancies and MORE non-AQ coaches getting looks. In my view, this is more to scare off the Houstons and USMs of the world. A raise and a higher buy-out keeps THEM from poaching our coach (which would be a PR nightmare). When the right school comes, he's gone anyway. This is meant to keep him from the mid-level school. We want to be a stepping stone to the AQ world, not to the upper-echelon of CUSA. Hawaii still hasn't recovered from losing Jones to stinkin' SMU.

[EngDawg]

A contract extension or more money doesn't matter. If a big boy AQ team wants him, they will pay what they have to to get him. The buyout would have to be some stupid high amount to keep an AQ team from getting him, and Dykes would never agree to a buyout that high.

[johnnylightnin]

A contract extension or more money doesn't matter. If a big boy AQ team wants him, they will pay what they have to to get him. The buyout would have to be some stupid high amount to keep an AQ team from getting him, and Dykes would never agree to a buyout that high.

In my view, this is more to scare off the Houstons and USMs of the world. A raise and a higher buy-out keeps THEM from poaching our coach (which would be a PR nightmare). When the right school comes, he's gone anyway. This is meant to keep him from the mid-level school. We want to be a stepping stone to the AQ world, not to the upper-echelon of CUSA. Hawaii still hasn't recovered from losing Jones to stinkin' SMU.

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[olddog75]

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.

Agreed, but we did see the high powered offence for one quarter of one game.