I wish contracts were more performance based and less salary based, too

Contracts, extensions, and buyout thoughts

Yiggy2 · 2025-11-02T17:44:54.499Z

Just a thought: No contract or extension of said contract should be for more than 3 years / seasons from date of signing contract or extension. Buyout of contract should be no more than $3 million per the average wins over past 3 seasons. If coach reaches 10 years, the buyout would be $1 million per win over the past 3 seasons. This is more of a severance than a buyout. I still think buyouts are crazy but at least base it on performance. My numbers may be high but that’s the concept. Still better than $50 to $60 million.

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Nice ideas for sure, it makes sense to me

Nov 2, 2025, 12:57 PM

But what makes “sense” to us means nothing in these structured corporate contracts.

Buyouts of CDS and many other coaches contracts are about as dumb an idea as it can get monetarily. LSU and PSU among others are able to buy it out, but at what cost ?? Is there a guarantee of success now that they’ve fired and paid off a low performing coach ??? No way, which tells you it’s just a bunch of paper flying around with no true value other than the paper the contract is printed on.

Maybe a 3/4 year max contract with a few million buyout to start and comes down each year until contract ends or is extended. 7/8/9/10 year contracts just make no sense, but even worse is the buyouts that are agreed upon…… I don’t get it, especially when they renegotiate and extend the contract after 2/3/4 years and increase the money and the buyout lol.

Comical indeed, and these head coaches are laughing and joking, like CDS yesterday, with no true fear of losing anything.

Sad state of affairs and it’s not going to get better until somebody extremely high up in this mix says enough if this BS and lays out a much better setup.

Sounds like you might be that man, go for it!!!!

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