We will be paying him unless he gets a $10 million / year salary. An idiot for UT drew up and agreed to his contract.
how is his contract unique? are we thinking Alabama, Oklahoma, Ohio Sate, or Michigan don't have the same basics with their HCs?
Even schools with proven coaches don't have full buyouts (see Mack Brown), and certainly not for assistant coaches. Only a complete idiot, being led by money grubbing, commission laden, possible kickback seeking consultants, would ever do such a thing for an unproven wannabe, when the line of proven coaches is long IF the school President and AD are removed. I have said before, and maintain now, that those contracts are GROSSLY NEGLIGENT and border on criminal. A complete forensic audit would be very revealing, but more expensive than it's worth since hopefully Patterson, KornFairy, & little Chuckie NeinASS are banned from The Forty Acres, and Bill Powers will soon be put out to pasture, although when I saw him before the TCU game, he looked embalmed.
Facts. At one time Mack Brown's buyout was about 60% of his salary. Depends on the demand for his services and the quality of his agent. There was no line behind Bill Powers to hire Charlie Strong. Sure South Carolina & Florida loved the guy, but they didn't have openings. Powers, like Cunningham, is a career educrat with zero business experience and less athletic experience. He was being led around by a bunch of self-serving, self dealing "consultants", who had everybody's best interest at heart except The University of Texas.
If he could just go ahead and go to Texas and keep snagging the same under achieving Texans he has already recruited the last two years, that would be great.
South Florida would be the ideal place for him. It is a good program possibly on the cusp of getting into a bigger conference like Louisville was. It is certainly one of the premiere AAC programs. It has good recruiting grounds he is familiar with. The prior coach has left him talent and a winning program. If he wants to keep Gilbert and Bedford, both have AAC experience. He already has 3 years of experience with the Hook Em Horns hand sign that the South Florida Bulls "borrow" from us. Accepting this job would be a no brainer on his part. Will Strong succeed? Who knows? I do not think anyone will be able to debate that he would not be positioned for success. It is interesting that South Florida is on our schedule in 2020, 2022 and 2024. Also, we had a player transfer there to get away from Strong and his staff so I have to feel for that guy only from a "what are the chances?" perspective.
If you are referring to Cecil Cherry at USF, he may be on the move again. http://247sports.com/Bolt/USF-LB-Cherry-Tweets-hes-leaving-49348210
77, While Coahoma CC has a fine reputation and was one of the stops for that 5* LB in Florida, who committed to Florida, was charged with sexual assault on is visit to Gainesville, got personal assistance from Donna Shalala in spite of two more criminal charges while waiting to enter school and then got bounced by the convicts for more legal problems before announcing he was going to WVU, where RichRod said, "He doesn't have a place in our program", then on to Long Beach CC prior to arriving on Coahoma, do you really think Mr Cherry is a fit? Best things about Coahoma County is the Delta Blues Museum and it is the home of "The Crossroads" (49 & 61) and one Robert Johnson, although not his grave site.
If he ends up at south Florida that contract will be backed loaded like a son of a gun and he has been offered D.C. Job at Oregon as well
Which is better - HC at a non-Power 5 Florida directional school or DC at a Power 5 school? A successful DC with Power 5 HC experience probably will land him another Power 5 job. Not so sure two successful Group of 5 HC stints erases the spectacular Power 5 failure.
