$5,112,070.00 Buyout is ranked 45th just under Bielema at Arkansas. SMDH. Career record 75-71 with zero outright conference championships.
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I don't believe the buyout is correct. He triggered an auto extension last year through the 2024 season. At $800K and seven years that's $5.6 million plus he is still owed the $100K raise from 2015 (due in '19), so technically he is owed $5.7M right now. I assume any delayed raises (which he could still trigger this year technically as well as next year) get kicked back in. Let's pretend he wins out getting to 7-5 this year and then hits seven wins again next year. That would put him at $1.1 million in 2019 and still have seven years left on the contract (bringing his buyout to $7.7 million). As long as he keeps getting to 7 wins we are automatically going to owe more in future years than we do now. Financially speaking you can certainly make the argument for cutting now before he adds on with more championshipless seven-win seasons.
Three criteria
1. 7 wins total OR 6 conference wins.
2. 940 APR
3. No NCAA violations.
Keep in mind when CRS went to Massaro to restructure to postpone his raise they upped it from six wins and five conference wins.
Lets negotiate again...the problem with the contract isn't the amount he is paid yearly, its the buy out. We can't be on the hook for 5-6M.
My gosh we are stuck with him until he retires or finds another job. No way we can pay that much.
We have no leverage. Why would he deal? He has the contract of a lifetime. What you would be asking him to do is negotiate a contract that will make it easier for us to fire him. Why would he ever agree to that?
I wonder though if it would cost us just as much to have our collapsing fan support continue and donors drop off too? I know tickets are a huge source of income and obviously we will not be earning much the rest of the year. Over a few years, wonder how much we'd lose by averaging less than 10,000 - and many (1/2?) of those students?Which is why i have been pointing out all these threads about firing him are pointless drivel.
I wonder though if it would cost us just as much to have our collapsing fan support continue and donors drop off too? I know tickets are a huge source of income and obviously we will not be earning much the rest of the year. Over a few years, wonder how much we'd lose by averaging less than 10,000 - and many (1/2?) of those students?
There is a difference in a valid attempt to hang on to a coach, though, and opening up the bank and offering him a contract that is so one-sided that we could NEVER get out from under it.How many of those donors who have walked away or throwing a fit right now are the exact same ones in Massaro ' s ear telling him to do everything he can to make sure CRS doesn't take the ECU and Memphis jobs? There are some people out there outside of the athletic department who are just as complicit and just as responsible for this as anyone within the Murphy Center.
Haven’t you heard? He “donated” back three years worth of anticipated salary bumps, (roughly $300,000) to be redirected to the student athlete COA Fund.........in exchange for 3 extra years ($2.4 Million) guaranteed. He ain’t resigning. Would you walk away from $5.7 Million guaranteed? I wouldn’t. Our AD is the one who swallowed hook line and sinker for this.If he cares one bit about the university he will resign.
Not me. I offered to help him if he took the Memphis job. Sat in Farley’s office and he told me to my face he had no interest in going to Memphis. He said no to a lot of money then but it was more a “no” to RC Johnson and their lack of support for football. Tommy West probably had something to do with it as well.How many of those donors who have walked away or throwing a fit right now are the exact same ones in Massaro ' s ear telling him to do everything he can to make sure CRS doesn't take the ECU and Memphis jobs? There are some people out there outside of the athletic department who are just as complicit and just as responsible for this as anyone within the Murphy Center.
Three criteria
1. 7 wins total OR 6 conference wins.
2. 940 APR
3. No NCAA violations.
Drastic times call for drastic action. I like your thinking.We're screwed.
We either:
a. kidnap a player so he doesn't go to class, thereby failing the APR benchmark. This seems like it's unfair to said player.
b. offer them a bag full of cash, get it on tape, and then go to the NCAA thereby violating the "no NCAA violations" rule. I like this one, even though it might set us back a year. That said, what would set us back more, NCAA penalties or being stuck under Stockstill.
I hope to God you guys are joking. I mean, really, y'all need to take step back from the ledge, take your meds, or something. Read your stuff before you post because the rest of the world can see this nonsense. Some of you have lost your damn minds over kids playing college ball.
There almost seems to be as wide a gulf between the athletic department/administration as there is a political divide in the nation.
To me, the credibility with fans of this football program and the athletic department/university as it relates to football is as low as I can imagine it's ever been.
At any other university, a loss to injury of it's star QB and star WR would get a pass from its fans. At any other program, wins on the road against SEC and ACC foes in consecutive years would have some built in good will. But this has been building for a long time.
There are some things fans really care about. Rivalries, conference and in-state. This program has gone from beating vandy three straight times to losing three straight times. It has gone from beating wku with some regularity to losing and seeing them as the two time defending champions and having received top 25 votes over the past few years. The last two years MT has not even competed against Marshall in blowout humiliating losses. Even memphis who MT has dominated in football in its series, has arguably the best team in the whole damn state. There is a strong sense of a rapid slide of this program.
Every single time it seems there is a home game of significance and some creditable television coverage of it the coaches and players $#!+ the bed. Every time there is a decent crowd, this program fails to show up.
And don't get me started on our pathetic record in bowl games...
Quite frankly I get sick of the whining of utk fans about Butch Jones everywhere. I think, my gosh, what if they had CRS?
I haven't seen any joking happening on this board about CRS. I seriously can see some of you trying to create violations out of spite. Irregardless, some of the stuff I read on the boards demonstrates some serious issues with some folks.
C'mon man.
We have grown ass men tweeting at players saying the head coach needs to be fired. Go back and read some of the threads over the past week. But we're going to claim everyone is on a rationale plane right now? C'mon Doug.
What if...CRS turns it around next year and goes on a "Kermit -style run". It would be worth every penny because of the recognition we would get.
Since we have no other option, this is the best that we can hope for. I hope for it. I certainly don't want us to lose football games. I'm getting cynical about our style of losing but I want whoever is coaching to succeed.
Haven’t you heard? He “donated” back three years worth of anticipated salary bumps, (roughly $300,000) to be redirected to the student athlete COA Fund.........in exchange for 3 extra years ($2.4 Million) guaranteed. He ain’t resigning. Would you walk away from $5.7 Million guaranteed? I wouldn’t. Our AD is the one who swallowed hook line and sinker for this.