Extension and Raise

#28
#28
Remy said:
Note to UTAD. Refuse to even consider hiring anyone using this guy as an agent in perpetuity. Put an end to his nonsensical contracts and provisions in them divorced from good market principles. No more rewarding bad behavior and/or results.
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He is Hugh Freeze’s agent and most top college football coaches.
 
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GAVol said:
As I just posted somewhere else... you're either extending a football coach to keep him under contract for 4+ years or you're firing him.
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And schools need to really stop doing this.

I get the idea, but if you're still firing a guy after giving him an extension than the whole point of signaling to a recruit that the coach is safe is meaningless.

So, to use a different situation as an example, there can't be a recruit considering signing with Michigan that is so naive that he doesn't know Harbaugh is in trouble. Therefore, the length of his contract is meaningless.

If the length of the contract really meant he's safe, then it would make sense. But, it doesn't.

So, there are a lot of schools losing money for no reason to create an illusion that nobody is buying. I think schools can keep it real now. The general public and recruits are hip to this at this point.

JMO
 
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6 game winning streak with a bowl win on a perfectly executed onside kick, we used to be good at those. Fulmer’s way of publicly telling Pruitt you’re our guy and we got your back.
 
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74charger said:
How?! The stupid extension came in Sept. of 2020. First thing I thought and said was, “why?!?! He’s just entering his 3rd year and hasn’t proved anything.”
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Yeah, we could have extended him at the end of this year or not depending on performance.
 
#39
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BeardedVol said:
Old article, but still highly relevant.
Blame overmatched ADs for massive coach buyouts
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Best thing UT could do on its next hire is find a coach with a different agent. We are snakebit with Sexton clients.

Said before Sexton has made a cottage industry of ripping off SEC schools and UT in particular.

In the age of Covid and Zoom, dude doesn't even have to put on pants to burn TN. Fulmer and Pruitt extensions being the latest examples.
 
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#41
Seems strange to me that Pruitt had the leverage to get that high buyout with no offset if he got another job.
 
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#44
Extensions should have been off the table in 2020. It’s ridiculous they were even an option with people losing jobs and taking pay cuts.

Philosophically, they should be off the table until we pull out one win at a minimum, against Bama, UF, or UGA.
 
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GAVol said:
As I just posted somewhere else... you're either extending a football coach to keep him under contract for 4+ years or you're firing him.
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If Pruitt wants new assistants after this season, it needs to come out of his salary same as Muschamp had to do last year.
 
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Is there more descent with the coaching staff or the players?
Both have failed miserably!
 
#47
#47
Athletic directors and especially college administrators most come from backgrounds in academia. They might be smart people, but they typically are "smart" in an academic, ivory tower sense. They are not wired as businesspeople or negotiators, and most have little experience doing it. Agents, on the other hand...that is their business. They are educated and trained in it.

Jimmy Sexton is a shark, and ADs/admin people are the chum.
 
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