so a bump to 4 would be a big raise........if he has another good year, go to 6. Pay the assistants that deserve it big money to stay. If Shane does well next year and the year after, his name may indeed pop up on radars elsewhere. We can pay to keep him and I truly believe him when he says this is his dream job. I'd take 7 mil for my dream job.
My biggest concern is the buyout...which to me even if we give him the 6 mil, why include a buyout of 65% of the remaining years on the contract. That's almost 4 mil per year on the remaining contract years. If he has 3 years left, we pay him 12 mil. He would only be fired if he turns us back into a Muschamp dumpster, or does something unethical.....the latter seems like it would never happen but if we start losing big, the seat gets hot quick. Can't fathom paying people doing a crappy job 12 mil to go away. Goes against my upbringing.
Shane deserved a big raise, and yes, he was low.....but we took a chance on him since he was never a coach, he got a HUGE increase over what he's made ever in his life, he's done a very good job and I'm a fan..........but 2.75 mil ain't chump change for an unproven head coach. Now he's got two years, we see he's got a chance to be special............but if he has a losing record this next season, 6 mil is a ton to pay. No one was coming after him for 4-5 mil this year so were we really worried he was leaving?
But yeah, he was low and a calibration was needed......me thinks we over calibrated based on the short sample size. Muschamp doing well his 2nd year still rings in my ear as a way not to jump the gun on contracts. And for the record, I was a Beamer fan the day we hired him. Now bigger.
