Setting up the next coach with the right incentives

You see, there’s this guy named Jimmy Sexton….

Paying above market rate salary in lieu of a big buyout package makes financial sense if you ask me.

You would probably have to pay insane numbers to get it to be non-guaranteed.


I can assure you these coaches don’t just quit. You don’t get to that level of football by having the attitude of “oh I’m getting paid either way, why try?”

He’s just not doing the job well enough but he’s trying.

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Instead of 75% guaranteed how about incentives. $1 Million bonus for SEC Championship or #1 recruiting class $5 Million bonus for national championship

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I’m sure you could get a shitty high school coach to agree to that

You'd have to negotiate with their agents. Putting (on the field) performance clauses in contracts is not really a thing right now, but it should be. Some contracts will outline monetary incentives for winning the conference or a national title, but none put a minimum limit on the amount of winning a coach must do. It's all a "good faith" type of thing, but it really needs to change because of all the money involved nowadays. A coach can literally get hired, tank everything on purpose, and walk away set for life.

I say let the first year be anything goes. Then for the 2nd year require a minimum amount of wins, then for the 3rd year, etc. Make it clear in the contract that going below that amount of wins can (but wont necessarily) result in termination for cause.

The problem is coaches who have options probably wouldn't sign such a deal, so there's that.

EDIT: As someone else said, another option is to do away with buyouts all together and pay above market rate per year (along with raises for various achievements).

Pay top dollar just don’t go 10 Year type contracts. Go 5 years for $8m/yr for a top notch coach. 6m for an up and comer. 4m for an assistant moving to head coach.

But also include incentives like recruiting, wins, wins against rivals, sec championships, national championships. Example top 5 recruiting class gets you $1m, top 10 500k, top 15 100k.

Then work as hard as possible to get buyouts at 50% for either party school or coach.

I think this whole mindset of get a HC job and quit is full of flaws, mainly though setting yourself up to never have another good coaching job? who wants to do that?

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I say let the first year be anything goes. Then for the 2nd year require a minimum amount of wins, then for the 3rd year, etc. Make it clear in the contract that going below that amount of wins can (but wont necessarily) result in termination for cause.

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That's a good idea, but I wonder if any coach would go for that. We must get this hire right, because I don't think we can afford to fire the next guy after only 2 years (if Harsin even makes it that long) or we will sink like a stone on the CFB scene. We're down now, but we'd be down and out of sight if we screw this next one up. We may never recover.

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