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billybud wrote:Word coming out of the FSU athletic center is that FSU does not want him coaching come Saturday...they can not fire him (huge payout), but they are working on ways to provide him an out and an easy transition to Texas A&M.
His bridge has been burned with the FSU administration and the Seminole Boosters...he won't stay even though he can't get fired...the message he got was.."We think it is time for you to move on and enhance your career..what can we do to move that on the quickest?".
For him to stay..he has too many rivers to cross.
I was hearing when he agreed to to his A&M deal, that he would stay to coach the UL-Monroe, but would not be there to coach the bowl game
(assuming fsu wins).
Usually, that is an act out of obligation to the players & the school --- however, if forida state wants him gone; he should probably just move on.
billybud wrote:And...with a $7.5 million a year, guaranteed five year contract...he can disappear...as a multi millionaire.
Yep ... and Texas is a Non Income Tax state.
How much is he paying in taxes on the $5.5 million he's making a year right now..?
Well, subtract that deduction, and add $2 million to his annual net gain.
And then there is the State of Texas he will have as his recruiting base --- True, Florida is a top state for high school prospects. Texas is right there with them. He wont be competing with Miami &
uf for recruits, with the flood over going to UCF & USF. He'll be competing against Texas, TCU, Texas Tech & Baylor, with the flood of going to Houston.
Texas will eventually rise again, but they are not by any means out in front of A&M with regards to competitiveness, or recruiting. He is stepping into a pretty decent situation.
So, yeah, he'll need a couple of successful years for people to praise the day he came to College Station.
But like Billybud says; $7.5 million guaranteed on a minimum 5 year contract = $37.5 million he can go away and not care if he's heard from again.
highfly24 wrote:Hadnt heard about Cutcliffe but it sounds like Doeren at NC State turned them down as well. The list of those turning the position down is becoming rather extensive. Not sure if some of these names were actually willing to listen but still make the list of names the school was interested in attracting. Next up is Sumlin, will see if that deal gets done.
Reminds me a lot of the notre dame fiasco, when they fired coach Willingham. They were so sure they had Urban Meyer, because Meyer had previously stated that notre dame would be his dream job; and had a clause in his contract with Utah, that if notre dame were to offer him their head coaching position, that he could leave Utah without taking a payment penalty.
Then
florida talked to him first, and offered him $1 million more than nd.
After that, notre dame went through one coaching name after another. They talked with around ten college coaches who all turned them down, before the finally asked Mike Golic
[yes the Mike & Mike in the morning guy, who was a former nd player] if he had any pull, and could suggest someone. He said he would see what he could do, and arranged for Charlie Weis to sit down with the nd interview committee.
Tennessee seems very reminiscent of that right now.
Spence wrote:Florida will get back eventually. It may be starting with the change.
Blasphemy! ... shame on you Spence, you are on a timeout.
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