Would Josh Heupel LEAVE Tennessee for another job?

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JMSqb11 said:
I'm sorry but this is among one of the more foolish reactions to Landry's press conference yesterday. Woodward will not be at LSU in 2026. Landry basically came out and called bullsh!t on coaching buyout in general and Jimmy Sexton being the agent working both sides.

Woodward has fleeced 2 schools for $125m and people are shocked that a SEC fanbase is outraged at that and are going to make damn sure he isn't around to make the next choice. It doesn't hurt the governor has deep ties to LSU (I know this personally) and is saying that program needs a change overall.

Landry basically used his pulpit to sideline Woodward and said a committee will make the hire. Landry said he himself will not be making the hire, but he used his position to sideline Woodward.

LSU will have a new AD when the new coach is hired. So this notion that the AD doesn't run the show is media dramatics. The AD that is getting sidelined won't be there much longer.
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Why are you sorry tho?
 
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I’ll leave TN for another fanbase if they pay me the right amount. Seek the answer from within.
 
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sambronkowitz said:
I don't see it happening. I haven't heard Heupel on anyone else's radar. And if anyone tried to take Heupel from us at UT, you could bet your @$$ that Danny White would meet with boosters and have them open up their hearts and checkbooks to entice Coach Heupel to stay in Knoxville for the long haul.
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Right. That’s what people dont understand, is that it’s not just about a school wanting him, but they aren’t going to come in at $11 million a year with a crazy buyout for Heupel. Some guy in another thread said he’s on LSU’s hotboard. In reality, he was on a writer’s hot board. Schools like LSU aren’t coming for him.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
It is simple. We are going to move to new era of coaching pay where they just get paid more annually with bigger incentives in exchange for smaller buyouts.

You think Kelly wouldn't have taken 50-100% more annual pay in exchanged for a $10m buyout? He was there 4 years and got paid $9-10M per year. I'd be hard pressed to find a coach who wouldn't take $15-18m per year with next to no buyout. They paid him about $39m for his 4 seasons and now flirting with $50m buyout. That is still a lot more than if he was making $15m per season with minimal buyout
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All of that sounds so great and so simple, but you are discounting human nature and that is a big mistake.

Sure, the ADs of all major football powers could all agree this is the path going forward.

We have a situation now where there are too many schools thinking they are "ready" for a serious playoff run and too few coaches who have shown they are capable of making that happen.

I would give it 5 years before some AD feeling job pressure stepped out of that arrangement and offered his can't miss target a 10 year contract for $150 million guaranteed to save his own butt

Once one goes, the rest will quickly do the same in their next hire.

So within a matter of a few years, you will end up with coaches receiving not only highly inflated salaries, but also the huge buyouts they have now.

Nature of the beast. CFB is no longer a quaint little fall pass time for undergrads and alumni. It's a multi billion $ a month machine and everyone is trying to get their cut.


Honestly, I see CFB taking a big fall in the next few decades much like MLB has in the last 25 years. What was the backbone of college fandom is being pushed out. Unsustainable in every regard.


I don't like it, but here we are. I just hope the whole thing maintains at least a bit of character until I vacate this planet.
 
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dduncan4163 said:


This is how we know we have a great HC. Everyone that's looking for a HC wants him. That being said LSU and Florida can keep dreaming. Heup ain't going nowhere.
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Coaches agent playes this all the time to get more money out of a college. You say he will not leave. But if LSU or Florida offered 10 to 13 million a year. That would be hard to turn down.
 
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volfeeva said:
LSU is way over rated as a power school. They've wandered in the desert just like we did after Fulmer left. Saban gave them a ring and so did Joe Burrow but they are still wandering lost in the desert
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LSU has done nothing close what we did. They are 5 years removed from a Natty and have had 3 out of 4 coaches win titles. If that program is wondering the desert, I would hate to see how you measure a successful program.
 
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Jax_Vol said:
How much $ would you require to become a full-blown Vandy fan?
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For $5 million after taxes, I will become the most obnoxious and annoying Vandy homer on the planet.

Players making bank in the transfer portal, might as well open it up to the fans as well.

Commode doors-you now see my price. Make it happen (please lol).
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Yall are stuck on 2015 and don't get it's 2025. In this new era of NIL in-state recruiting is no longer that important. Its about money now and resources. Tennessee is in a better position with regard to that than LSU. Texas and Oregon are really the only programs who are a step above us in terms of resources.

The only way a coach leaves a cash rich program is for one that is even richer. That's the game now. Not in-state recruiting base.
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If it’s just about money and resources then why aren’t TX and TAMU at the very top of the heap?
 
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J C Higgins said:
Don't think it will happen. It would have to be a package deal (White and Heupel) and a LOT of money.
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Curious as to why you would say that. Heupel wasn’t Whites first or second choice at UT. White is a big basketball guy and Barnes and Caldwell are rolling. They’re co workers and one of them can fire the other one. They aren’t fraternity brothers.
 
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CAVPUT said:
I think he'd be a great fit in either place. At UF, they'd see him as the next Spurrier. LSU is the better job tho. Still, I think with a UT win Saturday, OU fires Venebles and comes for Heupel. Prediction....Heupel senses our fan base is getting antsy so he might want to restart his clock somewhere else and return home while the getting is good. Kiffin will enjoy courtship from LSU and UF until Heupel's decision is known and if he does leave, Kiffin slides right on back to Knoxville for his second term as the Vols head coach.
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Bob Stoops is healthy and he will absolutely NEVER work with or for him again. If he left then we have a problem.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
I'm sorry but this is among one of the more foolish reactions to Landry's press conference yesterday. Woodward will not be at LSU in 2026. Landry basically came out and called bullsh!t on coaching buyout in general and Jimmy Sexton being the agent working both sides.

Woodward has fleeced 2 schools for $125m and people are shocked that a SEC fanbase is outraged at that and are going to make damn sure he isn't around to make the next choice. It doesn't hurt the governor has deep ties to LSU (I know this personally) and is saying that program needs a change overall.

Landry basically used his pulpit to sideline Woodward and said a committee will make the hire. Landry said he himself will not be making the hire, but he used his position to sideline Woodward.

LSU will have a new AD when the new coach is hired. So this notion that the AD doesn't run the show is media dramatics. The AD that is getting sidelined won't be there much longer.
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Thanks for the added insight to someone who is obviously closer to, and paying more attention to, the LSU situation than me.

Reading this, it's almost like it played out here at UT when Donde took over and cleared out the AD.
Makes me wonder what might have been had we had that kind of person way back when the Hamilton / Fulmer / Kiffin / fire lighting went down.
 
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rickyyrs said:
Coaches agent playes this all the time to get more money out of a college. You say he will not leave. But if LSU or Florida offered 10 to 13 million a year. That would be hard to turn down.
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We would match that if need be
 
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