Buyout For HCs Moving Forward

[Bull94]

1 hour ago, BullyPulpit said:

I don't know if you guys understand how a buyout works. It isn't a two-way street in the sense you are thinking. Currently, if a school fires a coach under contract without cause, they are responsible for the entire amount of the remaining contract, unless they contracted for a lesser amount. Texas is on the hook for Strong's remaining $11.2 million, Oregon has to pay Helfrecht the $11 million plus he is owed. This happens even if their buyout is $0. These are not mutually exclusive terms we are talking about. Unless there is a big buyout, the University bears all of the risk. This would simply level the playing field. Yes, it will represent a paradigm shift in the way coaching contracts are structured, but one is needed. 

And yes, coaches looking for a chance to prove themselves or redeem themselves will take the chance on a 3 to 4 year minimum commitment and, if they won't, we don't want them. 

it is a two way street. not dollar for dollar but heavily in favor of the coaches. sure they may not both be called buyouts but essentially they are. one you have to buy him out of his contract to leave the other a suitor has to buyout his contract to take him.

Strong's buyout for firing him was his remaining base salary. his buyout for hiring him away was the sum total of the salary paid to the assistant coaches from the university.

https://hkm.com/football/contracts/charlie-strong/

for Helfrich his buyout to get rid of him was the remaining base pay salary($11M) while his buyout to take him would have been up to $3m depending on the year he left.

https://hkm.com/football/contracts/mark-helfrich/

 

these have always been in favor of the coaches and if you think you will get any decent coach to sign one heavily in favor to the school then good luck.

[Bull94]

8 minutes ago, TallyBull said:

I agree we have to try something creative. AAC schools, in particular, have to start thinking outside the box.

Also, please check your email, been trying to reach you about something offline. Thanks.

the AAC needs to break off with the other remaining G6 or whatever they call it. start their own playoffs. change rules so kids who transfer can play right away. watch all that talent on P5 teams benches run to the G6 schools

 

we can't recruit head to head but we would win the transfer wars.

[Gismo]

On 12/7/2016 at 9:53 AM, BullyPulpit said:

We have the leverage though. We are either giving a coach his first chance to be a HC or taking a coach who has been recently fired and giving him a chance at redemption. There are only 128 HC openings in college football and only 60 of them are better than the spots in the AAC. Our ADs need to see that we have the leverage. There are more capable coaches than there are coaching openings. We hold the cards, we need to play them appropriately. 

What about the AAC having a league buyout where there is the buyout for the school then like 200-500k of the buyout that goes to the AAC and is split between the members. 

 

So so if it was 500k, AAC members would split 1.5 million this year due to 3 coaching buyouts. 

Edited December 8, 2016 by Gismo