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re: Gus gets extension to 2020
Posted on 6/7/16 at 10:03 am to Tigerman97
Posted on 6/7/16 at 10:03 am to Tigerman97
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In the money of Auburn Football a couple of million really isn't much.
What a way to run a business! Ahh it's just a couple million let's spend it for no good reason!
And while yes $2 mill doesn't seem like a lot to an operation as big as our AD, it can have a big impact.
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In recruiting kids are easily swayed. It doesn't take much. If you can point out to a kid that every other head coach recruiting him has a 4 year deal but the coach at school X then it will weigh on that kid. They are often looking for reasons to narrow the decisions. Coaches recruiting them give them as many reasons as possible about the other schools.
Again, it's not hurting us. I agree with saying it might hurt us later in the recruiting process which is why I'd agree to an extension after the season if I still wanted Gus around but doing it now doesn't make much sense.
All of what y'all are saying is great in theory but you do have to actually look at our actual situation and do what's best in that situation.
This post was edited on 6/7/16 at 10:05 am
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Posted on 6/7/16 at 11:13 am to Weagle25
quote:The problem with waiting is that if you are recruiting a kid who will sign in Feb 2017, and other coaches are able to use the contract length against you at this time of year, you may lose so much ground that even with the extension after the season, you can't make it up.
I agree with saying it might hurt us later in the recruiting process which is why I'd agree to an extension after the season if I still wanted Gus around but doing it now doesn't make much sense.
If a kid narrows his list and drops a school based upon worries of the coach's future, he could take all of his official visits and be completely be smitten with another program, and when the end of the season comes around, the coach finally gets the extension what then? The kid may have used up his official visits, he may have even committed elsewhere.
Unfortunately it is the way college football is today, and while it doesn't make the most sense from a budgetary perspective, it is something that has to be done - just like the arms race on football facilities, etc.
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