Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

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Nashvegas31 said:
I didn’t realize Napier was a TN boy. I can warm up to him in that case a little more knowing he would have a real passion for being here similar to freeze. Just don’t really know how good he is. He was elite recruiter as an assistant. Struggle his first go as OC then didn great work with Bama WRs and had good one year as OC at AZ st before being a HC. Only time I seen him though was his really odd coaching decisions in a game this year where I believe he took a saftey that made no sense. So I can’t say my first impression helped my thoughts on him
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Won that game. Always the most important factor for me.
 
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mccrackb said:
JT is an INt waiting to happen, Mauer is an injury waiting to happen, and Bailey wasn’t ready because of COVID. But, let’s go thru this bull**** again. Dumbasses
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Lol. Bailey was ready. You just listen to our dumb coaches who tried to tell you he wasn’t. Now look at him. Over 70% completion rating. It’s not hard to give someone 25-30 plays and just run those.
 
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seaofORANGE22 said:
I can't shake the idea that we're gonna hire Gus Malzahn.
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I don't think Gus would take the job.

He would be better served taking a year or two and being OC somewhere and rediscovering how to run an offense that isn't in the bottom half of the FBS.

I wouldn't assume he is trying to jump back on the horse of running a major program with that 22 million dollar check on the way.
 
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JCP201 said:
well, no Eric Gray, I see.
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Get the same feeling I did when Hurd was announced out for the last A&M game. @UT_Dutchman and I were tailgating in College Station and giddy about it being Kamara and Kelly time! Just hope Chandler doesn’t double up on carries in Gray’s absence.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
I think they should set a standard where if you're fired for poor performance (something tangible to measure with w/l record) then your contract payout for a buyout is docked a % cause I agree that leaning on mitigating gets you stuck in situations like we had with Butch where he just took a BS job so there'd be next to nothing mitigated to be a petty bitch.

If Pruitt stayed for the rest of his contract he'd make 12 million. If he's fired for poor performance why can't that be docked 25%? Maybe some of these coaches would be more interested in winning if they new losing/firing actually meant a pay cut. I also hate that if you want to hire away a coach the university is then paying his buyout. To me that should be something the coach is on the hook for to some extend, maybe only allow the hiring university the ability to offset 50% of it or something. Cause as is coaches seem to have zero loyalty. Get fired still get paid, get hired somewhere else they will pay the buyout to poach ya.
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Very sensible in theory, but you won't get a decent coach to sign anything like that. Agents now strike mitigation clauses and demand sweeteners before presenting contracts to clients. Buyouts are favorable to coaches, and performance-based clauses are generally escalators that penalize schools and benefit coaches.

A school wanting to hire an in-demand coach goes into negotiations handcuffed. The more in demand a coach is-- or the more adeptly he can use the media to convince a school he is-- the more leverage the agent has to broker deals that would have been outrageous a few years ago. Even assistants are demanding-- and getting-- incredibly favorable terms. With increased mobility and TV money, it's only going to get worse.
 
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