Tennessee in No. 1 in average football/basketball severance

[Kinglberry]

Makes sense ...





... for the school.

Makes sense for athletes in track, tennis, baseball, softball, etc. Even the playing field in baseball against places like Vanderbilt. They can't complain or say they don't have the money to afford full scholarships when they can afford a buyout. At least in the power 5.

 

[livefaith]

Makes sense for athletes in track, tennis, baseball, softball, etc. Even the playing field in baseball against places like Vanderbilt. They can't complain or say they don't have the money to afford full scholarships when they can afford a buyout. At least in the power 5.

So, are you seriously, expecting hoping or proposing that the idea of high paid sport coaches are to be forced to give up their job security (buyout deterrent) in order to subsidize those sports that are so unpopular that they cannot pay for themselves with a fanbase?

 

[Kinglberry]

So, are you seriously, expecting hoping or proposing that the idea of high paid sport coaches are to be forced to give up their job security (buyout deterrent) in order to subsidize those sports that are so unpopular that they cannot pay for themselves with a fanbase?

Job security? Really. It's not that at all. If it was they wouldn't be fired, they would be let go at the end of their contracts. It's a bargaining advantage that agents and coaches have taken due to universities feeling desperate. Universities first implemented these against the coaches to limit poaching, then coaches countered with their own version. The standards written into the contracts for dismissal with cause are nearly impossible to accomplish, making these buyouts equivalent to guarantees instead of prevention of wrongful termination. Conversely, the language also typically stipulates that the terminating university must pay the difference between new employment amount and the previous. This has in turn been used by the following employer to under pay that coach thereby locking the former into subsidizing their hiring. Butch "earned" over 15 million during his time here, he will receive another 8 plus million while milking the University while fetching coffee at Alabama. If you think this is an acceptable way to do business. I'm sorry. I'd much rather see money sent to the students/athletes of my University, even if you don't find them popular, rather than sent to a person who was fired because he/she failed.

 

[VolPack22]

I know it will never happen but it would be nice if the NCAA implemented a fixed salary for power 5 coaches. Buyouts should be null and void if you don’t make a bowl game and get fired for not performing to minimum expectations. They could have special incentives for bowl wins, making the playoff and winning the championship to reward the coaches that actually win in the postseason but right now it’s the Wild West. I probably wouldn’t care one way or the other if we had at least been a respectable football program over the past decade+ but we have been cursed with bad hire after bad hire. All we can do now is hope Pruitt is developing into the savior and we don’t have to worry about buyouts for a very long time.

 

[TNnative]

Do away with buyouts and all sports could be fully funded scholarships. Easy.

Do away with buyouts and:

Your HC for football is Pee Wee Herman
Your HC for basketball is Gilbert Gottfried.
Your HC for baseball is Pauley Shore.

I would list the other teams, but I need to go buy TP.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Hart gets credit for hiring Barnes after Texas fired him.

Hamilton was a fund raiser who was way over his head as the athletic director.

Hamilton’s fund raising standard is one of, if not the major reasons why we have suffered for so long.

 

[onevol74]

There are some mediocre coaches out there who just thought, “My goal in life is to be fired from the University of Tennessee.”
I can’t type this without seeing Butch’s face.