Well as the coach you'd be living in the area of the school, so that'd definitely be a high priority consideration for me.
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Well as the coach you'd be living in the area of the school, so that'd definitely be a high priority consideration for me.
Anyone taking the Arkansas job isn't lasting more than 3-4 years. At Cal, a decent coach could build a program and have a long coaching career. It probably depends on your priorities.
Man, I don't know how you win at Berkeley. Smallest budget in the league and every league road game sans one every other year is a minimum 4 hour flight. That's a really tough job.
I could think of a worse life than being a millionaire and living in the Ozarks.
And while it hasn’t all been put together yet, there’s tons of money in the area. I could see someone who knows how to fundraise and kiss babies having some success there.
Someone with a 48-55 record should NEVER have a $10+ mil buyout. College ADs are the worst negotiators on the planet.
To each their own. I have zero interest in living out there. Plus Cal puts minimal financial backing into athletics so that job is always going to be a difficult job. Even worse now they are in the ACC
And Arkansas is well Arkansas, no thanks.
And for PR/notoriety/selling the program to recruits, etc., average fans like myself keep forgetting Cal is even in a conference.
His salary was essentially fully guaranteed through 2027, at roughly 5 mil\year, that's how the buyout is 10mil. Though his contract also had a duty to mitigate clause, so there will be an offset of that from whatever the next job pays.
Players with Terry Smith signs after the game. Maybe give him a short deal 2 or 3 years to prove if he can do it.
Eastern New Mexico hires Art Briles, the ex-Baylor coach fired amid sexual assault scandal
Art Briles was fired from Baylor in 2016 amid a massive sexual assault scandal within the program.
Hiring Briles is certainly a choice, I guess.
Matt Campbell reportedly in running to become new Hogs coach | KNWA FOX24 https://www.nwahomepage.com/sports/...portedly-in-running-to-become-new-hogs-coach/
"Official" source is Pig Trail Nation....lol
Gross
Eastern New Mexico hires Art Briles, the ex-Baylor coach fired amid sexual assault scandal
Art Briles was fired from Baylor in 2016 amid a massive sexual assault scandal within the program.sports.yahoo.com
Hiring Briles is certainly a choice, I guess.
The buyout is probably balance of his annual salary over term of contract. So this is more about Cal extending his original contract when he had a 6 or 7 win season.
That's the real issue. ADs hire coaches to win games. How many depends on the school. And as soon as the new coach has some success the schools are jumping all over themselves to bump the coaches salary and add years. I'm sure their justification is fear that coach will be poached.
And the age old argument that a coach has to have 4 years remaining on his contract, otherwise that would hurt recruiting.
Maybe, but I doubt it, some AD will say to a coach and his agent "Go ahead and walk, there's hundreds of guys who want your job".
