Cignetti locked down
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And if he never wins another football game, he and all of his next couple of generations of descendants never really have to work a day in their lives.
Kind of funny. After Franklin was fired there were a bunch of articles talking about how the coaching buyouts were getting out of control and how universities were probably going to start moving away from them with NIL costs and revenue sharing.
Guess not.
I would LOVE to see performance based buyouts.
Won 10 games? Here's your buyout. Win 5 this year, well, we have a discount to that buyout.
It should be with salaries as well. Give these coaches a base salary but the bulk of their earnings come from winning. Beamer gets 1m base but the rest of his 8m comes after each win. Same thing for the assistant coaches but they are based on how their position group performs.
Odds are IU will regress. It'll be interesting to see how it unfolds. They have all-time .421 win percentage and a 3-11 overall bowl record. If he can transform them in a perennial power or even perennial top 25 team, that'll be an extremely rare feat.
What a smart hire by IU though. Wish we could make decisions like that.
Folks wanna talk about all of our handicaps to building a program. IU has all the same, and then some. But Cignetii is having success just the same.
You can thank Jimmy Sexton for that. The dude set the market for coach contracts, he's not going to let them regress back to a logical number.
Naturally 1 of those 3 wins is against the Gamecocks.
Fully on board with that last paragraph. The handicap is stupid decision making. There’s been some misfortune but it’s largely the former.
Resources aren’t an issue. SC’s athletic dept had more money than Clemson’s when they began their tear.
Fan support has never been an issue. We’re gluttons for punishment really.
In addition to an IU comparison, Ole Miss & Missouri have similar football histories (maybe fewer resources?) to SC and Kiffin & Drink are getting 9/10 win seasons at their places.
Agreed. People are emotionally invested, so there will be debate. But try to picture this as an outsider.
We hired a coach who was just fired from a talent rich environment for gross incompetence. Then followed that by hiring a position coach no one else wanted.
THAT has been my point. Even if we win tomorrow , which I think is possible, 9/10 win season is out of the question. Why Kiffin and Drinkwitz can get that done at Ole Miss and Missouri, but Beamer can't at SC, is a condemnation of Beamer, win or lose against overrated Oklahoma.
He should send PSU a VERY nice thank you note.
This doesn't happen if not for the Cignetti/PSU smoke.
This doesn't happen if not for the Cignetti/PSU smoke.