I don't get this 'we pay $2 million to beat UGA' so no bonus is necessary nonsense.
If you guys think that some career coach with no ties to GT is going to understand how you guys think that the UGA game is more important than a conference championship, based on the 0-6 Chan move, you are delusional.
If Chan had won last years ACC championship thereby putting us in a BCS bowl, it would've been much harder to fire him. Not impossible, but hard. If he had won an ACC championship this year, he would still be the coach and 0-6 would be irrelevant.
Also, do you guys really believe that incentives like specific bonuses don't work? If you had a 10% bonus for NEVER being late to work, would it affect your behavior in any way? I assume they pay you handsomely to come to work, yet I assume most of us have been late, or at least have occasionally cut it close.
Maybe all of my experience with money as a motivator (and highly overcompensated employees) is irrelevant here. But nobody will ever convince me that it would be harmful. So therefore all we are arguing about is if it can add additional motivation or not.