Guess we got our answer on Muschamp's next gig

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Edit: give me some time and I'll try to find a way to put a positive spin on this.

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Mr. Sunshine will do it for you. His wife made him. Their son is on the team.

Latest report is he is just visiting. I think thats BS as we all know he is going there.

Muschamp's contract did NOT have the clause that if he works somewhere else the money he makes there reduces what we owe him. Tanner really fricked up. Muschamp can make a million dollars and we still have yo pay him every penny.

He could be a paid analyst or they also need a DB coach.

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The new Hairy Dawg.

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Probably do a better job than the last time he was a Defensive Coordinator

per TheSnake 12/9/20

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That contract points to one issue that will likely make Tanner’s negotiations harder with the school set to owe Muschamp more than $13 million across four years.

Tanner has spoken about “mitigation” as a standard part of the school’s contracts. It was mentioned when several reporters spoke to him about Muschamp’s buyout after a late-season loss in 2019.


Mitigation means that when a coach takes a new job, his new salary is subtracted comes from the former school’s buyout payment. It’s intended to discourage a coach from double-dipping with income from previous and current employers, and lessen the financial burden on the school that just fired him.

Muschamp’s contract does not have any such mitigation language.

The State had his contract and subsequent amendments to it reviewed by a pair of experts in the field of sports contracts — Anita Moorman from University of Louisville and Marty Greenberg from Marquette — and both said the language of the deal says South Carolina would almost assuredly not be entitled to paying less money if Muschamp gets a new job.

“The termination without cause sections do not mention mitigation expressly,” Moorman wrote in an email.

Several calls made and emails sent to USC officials seeking clarifications and comment for this story were not returned.

Greenberg explained that most contracts in the sport require the fired coach to make a good-faith effort to find work, which in turn reduces what the former school has to pay as part of a buyout. Without that, the buyout is relatively straightforward in favor of the coach. He’s owed the payout even if he’s not working next season, which doesn’t leave a ton of room for negotiation.

These parts of the contract have evolved through the years to protect schools, as coaches would get fired from one job and then still get paid a full buyout while drawing a paycheck from a new school. (Muschamp himself did this when he was fired by Florida and then became the highest-paid assistant in the country at Auburn.)

Looking to limit such situations, universities have used increasingly strong and sophisticated language in some deals, as coaches found different ways to take new jobs that would still leave more of the salary bill for schools that fired them. (Former Gamecocks coach Lorenzo Ward did this, taking a below market-level deal after USC let him go.)

Former South Carolina defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson’s contract, which was signed the same year as Muschamp’s, has that mitigation language, right down to a specific element put in to prevent someone from doing what Ward did. Muschamp’s deal did not.

That aspect is standard for most contracts, Greenberg explained, but some don’t have it, including a significant majority of public school head coach contracts in the SEC.

“If you look at the contracts for [Gus] Malzahn at Auburn, [Dan] Mullen at Florida, [Mark] Stoops at Kentucky and [Jeremy] Pruitt at Tennessee, they don’t have that either,” said Greenberg, who does negotiation work for some coaches. “That’s an item that’s negotiated” when coaches are hired.

That absence of that language means that when any of those coaches, or Muschamp, is terminated without cause, as happened last month to the former Gamecocks coach, he’ll get all the money listed as “liquidated damages” in the deal.

Based on the contract amendment spelled out and voted on in a December 2019 university board of trustees meeting, that total is more that $13.2 million, to be paid out to Muschamp until 2024.

All those coaches, including Muschamp and new Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer, are represented by powerful agent Jimmy Sexton.

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I don't think so man. I think he genuinely took advantage of an ice cream cone eating retard of ponzi like proportions.

Found this interesting. Beyond ridiculous this even had to be done. F'ing slimeball. And to think Ray Tanner cried bc he had to fire this piece of shite.

Ray Tanner is the AD equivalent of the scrawny white male cuckold mainstream media/advertising is pushing down our throats in commercials.

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don't know if you have ever had any personal dealings with Tanner but I have and everytime I would ask myself how the freak did he get to be AD.

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It’s because our department is in the late 90s