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Post by Mojave Gator on Feb 10, 2023 17:38:56 GMT -5
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Post by tapsgator on Feb 13, 2023 13:59:52 GMT -5
I don't get the extensions, really don't. Are they scared someone is going to come calling for Mike Norvell?
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Post by Mojave Gator on Feb 13, 2023 15:54:31 GMT -5
I don't get the extensions, really don't. Are they scared someone is going to come calling for Mike Norvell? I believe that they intend for it to be a reweard for a good season, but I don't get it either. It's not like a coach is going to try harder if there are more incentives or a pay raise - not if he is a total professional, at least. |
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Post by tapsgator on Feb 14, 2023 10:13:03 GMT -5
I don't get the extensions, really don't. Are they scared someone is going to come calling for Mike Norvell? I believe that they intend for it to be a reweard for a good season, but I don't get it either. It's not like a coach is going to try harder if there are more incentives or a pay raise - not if he is a total professional, at least. I think you're right, but I also think it's the ADs, most of whom are political creatures and raging narcissists (kind of redundant I know) patting themselves on the back for a "job well done." Nevermind that it completely hamstrings the program and the vast majority of these guys will leave anyway if they feel it serves their self-interest. |
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Post by tapsgator on Feb 14, 2023 12:24:51 GMT -5
Case in point: "Florida would owe him $31.9 million if it dismissed him after the 2023 season, with 50% due in the first 30 days. If the Gators waited until 2024 to pull the plug, they’d still be on the hook for almost $26 million. And the numbers don’t change if Napier gets a new job in the aftermath." Look at that buyout. How?  ?? Why? ? I mean I liked the hire and still think we should absolutely stay the course at least through 24, but what in the Sam Hell is Stricklin doing if not preemptively congratulating himself for a job well done. We didn't hire Lincoln Riley. Hell we didn't even hire Brian Kelly. Or Mario Cristobal. Or Sonny Dykes. Point being that with a sane AD winning the Sunbelt and having no head coaching experience in the Power 5 doesn't earn you that buyout language at the University of Florida. Especially when your combined coordinator experience is all of 2 years in 2010 at Clemson and 2017 at Arizona State. The closest thing he had was a year and a half as McGoober's QB coach at Colorado State. Hell he wasn't even a QB coach at Alabama, he was the wide receivers coach after being an analyst. It's like calling a rookie up to the big leagues after he banged around the minors before catching a hot streak in AAA (could argue AA) and then signing him to a huge contract before seeing if he can hit major league pitching. I need to not research the things that Foley and Stricklin have done over the past decade or so. www.saturdaydownsouth.com/florida-football/espn-explains-why-billy-napiers-seat-at-florida-could-heat-up-in-2023/ |
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Post by Mojave Gator on Feb 14, 2023 19:02:34 GMT -5
You're probably right on the AD ego angle. These guys keep painting their schools into financial corners with coach contracts. It also makes no sense that his buyout isn't reduced if he gets another job. Most places, the contract is written to pay the difference between the buyout and whatever the coach signs for somewhere else.
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Post by Rock Gator on Feb 18, 2023 16:31:16 GMT -5
I guess it's up to Ben Sasse now to inject some financial sanity into the coach recruitment and retention system. ADs don't operate autonomously - they have bosses too. Those bosses should do their jobs as well.
RG
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