TigerScribe

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ETA: just looked it up and if Lanning leaves Oregon he has to pay them $20 million

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His overall buyout to leave for another job also includes the cash value of his Nike stock, which is estimated to be in the tens of millions. I've seen a couple of figures online that project his overall buyout to be close to or about $60 million total.

The Braves made $59 million in mixed-use revenue in 2023, mostly from The Battery. In 2024, that number increased to $67 million. By the end of this year, it's projected to be close to or about $80 million.

This is all considered non-baseball revenue, so it's not subject to revenue sharing. The Braves keep all of that and can plow it back into baseball ops. Other MLB teams are understandably envious of this and are studying how to try to duplicate the Braves-Battety model, at least to some extent.

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Who the frick is Brad Crawford?

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National college football editor with 247 Sports. Been in the industry about a decade.

Per On3, Ohio State, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas are in the mix here. Texas has already landed 4 portal DTs, but it's not stopping them from pursuing Watson. Would love for LSU to get in the running here.

In UH's case, Kelvin Sampson and Tilman Fertitta.

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He has no talent on this team.

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He recruited this team.

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Everywhere. Google is your friend. Astros are a pack of cheaters.

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If you're going to tell someone else to consult Google for the truth, you should follow your own advice.

Google video sign stealing in 2017 and before. Here's what I found when I did:

-Tons of articles about teams accusing other teams of video sign stealing (none of the teams mentioned were the Astros).

-Several players who came forward saying they know first hand of lots of other teams besides the Astros who were video sign stealing.

-An anonymous MLB manager of a team other than the Astros who said video sign stealing was pervasive throughout the league.

-Carlos Beltran laughing at his new teammates when he rejoined the Astros in 2017 for not having a better system for video sign stealing. Showed them what the Yankees were doing when he was there and was instrumental in the Astros scaling their own effort.

Call the Astros cheaters all you want, because they were. But so were lots of other teams.

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The contract i saw doesn’t have him making 2.8 till his last year of the contract.

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You're looking at just the "supplemental compensation" part of his annual pay (which is the bulk of his annual comp). He also has an annual base salary each year of $400K. The buyout language specifies that LSU would owe him 80% of base salary plus supplemental comp.

I wonder how they came up with those numbers. He has 4 years left on his contract after this season. He'll make $2.9m, $3m, $3.1m, and $3.2m over those 4 seasons for a total of $12.2m. LSU would owe him 80% of that total if they fire him after this season, which would be about $9.76m.

However, the buyout isn't due all at once. It's to be paid in monthly installments over the same time period that's left on his contract. So, 4 years, if fired after this season, which would make the annual buyout payments a little over $2.4m each.

Something to keep in mind, McMahon would be required to make a good-faith effort to find another coaching, executive or media job in college or pro basketball. And whatever he makes from that job would reduce by that much what LSU would owe him.

Because of that, the two parties could agree to a reduced lump sum settlement, which perhaps actually could come out to about $7m, if not less.

Seems like LSU is pretty competitive according to this:

USA Today on NCAA schools by revenue.