Wisconsin said they are going to invest in the program. They should invest in teaching Fickell how to coach!!
Interesting thoughts from one article today on how to structure coaches contracts to avoid these ridiculous buyouts.
Look to Hollywood-As back-end royalties disappeared, agents began negotiating bigger up-front payments for shorter terms. ADs could do the same by offering higher annual salaries for fewer years, testing whether coaches would accept more money now in exchange for shorter, fully guaranteed deals. The idea that a coach âcannot recruitâ without five years left on his contract no longer holds up. Players know coaches rarely stay that long, and many plan to move schools themselves. Shorter contracts with larger up-front payouts make far more sense in todayâs landscape. Every coach believes he will win, and most would find it hard to turn down a lucrative short-term offer. If they do succeed, they can earn a second deal. The model also mirrors how NFL teams handle coaching contracts.
Next strategy is to incentivize winning. Supersize performance-based pay. One agent suggested building contracts around modest base salaries paired with large bonuses:
Base salary: $5 million a year for five years (100 percent guaranteed)
Per-win bonus: $500,000
SEC championship game bonus:$1 million for making it and losing, $2 million for winning
College Football Playoff bonus:$2 million for making it, $500,000 for each additional round reached, and $1 million more for winning the national title. A coach who went 15-1 and won both the SEC and national titles could make $19 million for that season, and he would be worth every penny. If the coach struggled, the schoolâs liability would remain limited, a sharp contrast to LSUâs 90 million dollar commitment to Brian Kelly.
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If there is one upside of the portal and NIL era it is that, logically, coaching contracts should be shorter and less lucrative going forward. Recruiting high school athletes is no longer the only road to success and there is now competition with the athletes themselves on how to best allocate booster and university dollars.
Nailed it! Franklin to Va Tech!
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IU also outspends Wisconsin in NIL by a significant amount. IU is one of the national leaders. No surprise theyâre now a contender.
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Penn State and Franklin reach agreement to reduce his buyout to 9 million now that he got the Va Tech job. Still a nice little parting gift!
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Wisconsin not spending money has a long history, too. Mel Tucker poached the Wisconsin recruiting coordinator during his brief stint at Michigan State by offering to double (IIRC) his salary, and Wisconsin didnât even attempt to counteroffer.
They blow the entire budget to keep the stadium stocked with enough beerâŚ
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âŚa very wise investment.
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Perhaps Fickell will raid the UC roster 
Not that great of a âgood friendâ apparently. What a dick smack.
James Franklin is known for his stoic demeanor, but on Wednesday morning at Cassell Coliseum, Virginia Techâs new football coach grew emotional, his voice quivering and his eyes welling up.
âIâd like to acknowledge Brent Pry,â Franklin said of his decade-long former assistant, whom Virginia Tech fired in September. âBrent Pryâs a good friend ⌠I know he poured his heart and soul into this place. I know this place is better today because of Brent and the commitment that he made.â
I like that we are continuing to pretend we at Miami compete in the same division as this. $90m coaching contract and $25m a year for paying their players.
LSU is finalizing an offer of roughly $90 million for Lane Kiffin, Yahoo! Sportsâ Ross Dellenger reported. In addition, the Tigers would be offering roster cash worth roughly $25 million annually.
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What a joke college football is. No pro league with self-respect should tolerate a world where a coach can be poached mid-season when theyâre still in the playoff hunt.
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CM loves Oxford and will retire at Miami. Probably at 70!
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Okay but here is the important question: what would be the buyout?
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Iâm over it, personally. Give me a division with sane financial parameters, relatively stable rosters, and a division-wide postseason tournament and Iâll be more than happy to keep following and cheering on Miami football.
The current landscape is tedious. And if Iâm honest, not that rewarding from a fanâs perspective.
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Waiting for the moment when Tennessee or Wisconsin or Florida State boosters say, âYa know, every year we write checks totaling $30M to fund a team that never wins the National Championship, and thatâs a lot of money which was wasted. Like $150M over 5 years and we finish 5th at best. Not doing it anymore.â
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Yep, the NFL is the most popular league in the country because of revenue sharing, but nobody else wants to do it.
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Our sister school, the IUP CrimsonHawks, is playing in the first round of the DII playoffs today. So much better than DI. Conferences that relatively make sense and fairly stable rosters to boot!
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I have said many times absent Notre Dame or perhaps Illinois or Northwestern calling, Chuck will retire in Oxford. And I donât think he would leave for an OC or DC job at this point.
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