Womenandcookies
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ESPN made this article/graphic for which schools have spent the most money on paying coaches not to coach.
https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/32355679/dead-money
There's nearly half a billion dollars P5 colleges are paying coaches to leave. This doesn't seem sustainable. Especially when you have coaches like Muschamp, Strong, Pelini and Sumlin being paid nearly 10-20 million each to not coach at 2 schools at the same time. Just 9 coaches alone are worth $100 million to not coach.
I think we're seeing the market correct itself these days. You have LSU getting rid of Coach O for cause. Tennessee conducting their own internal investigation to get rid of Pruitt for cause. Washington is now investigating their coach for smacking a player on the head with a plastic play sheet. Clearly a precursor for firing him for cause. This arms race of giving coaches insane buyouts is resulting in coaches being investigated by their own schools to find anything they can to fire them for cause.
Some schools are going to pay their coach to go away, others will fabricate reasons for cause, but one way or another the school will drop a bad coach. I say cut out the financial anchor and start signing coaches to 2-3 year deals with an easy buyout. If a recruit doesn't understand that concept the transfer portal exist for a reason. Any recruit that signs on right now to play for Duke, VT, Miami, Nebraska has to know that the chances of their coach being there the next 4 years are slim, no matter how many years they have left on a contract. Why pretend otherwise and waste money doing so?
https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/32355679/dead-money
There's nearly half a billion dollars P5 colleges are paying coaches to leave. This doesn't seem sustainable. Especially when you have coaches like Muschamp, Strong, Pelini and Sumlin being paid nearly 10-20 million each to not coach at 2 schools at the same time. Just 9 coaches alone are worth $100 million to not coach.
I think we're seeing the market correct itself these days. You have LSU getting rid of Coach O for cause. Tennessee conducting their own internal investigation to get rid of Pruitt for cause. Washington is now investigating their coach for smacking a player on the head with a plastic play sheet. Clearly a precursor for firing him for cause. This arms race of giving coaches insane buyouts is resulting in coaches being investigated by their own schools to find anything they can to fire them for cause.
Some schools are going to pay their coach to go away, others will fabricate reasons for cause, but one way or another the school will drop a bad coach. I say cut out the financial anchor and start signing coaches to 2-3 year deals with an easy buyout. If a recruit doesn't understand that concept the transfer portal exist for a reason. Any recruit that signs on right now to play for Duke, VT, Miami, Nebraska has to know that the chances of their coach being there the next 4 years are slim, no matter how many years they have left on a contract. Why pretend otherwise and waste money doing so?
