Nutt get's a raise and a contract extension...

[fishwater99]

Bear's Nutt Raise

Boone said he thinks Nutt is “still digesting” what to do with his staff, which is what the coach said at a press conference earlier in the afternoon. But Boone said he didn’t demand any changes from his coach.
Boone said that Nutt’s contract, which previously expired at the end of
the 2013 season, will automatically extend to 2014 due to a handshake
agreement for a seven-year deal that was made when Nutt took the Ole
Miss job after the 2007 season. Contracts with state employees in
Mississippi can only last four years, thus the arrangement. Nutt will
receive an automatic 5 percent raise as dictated by the contract to
approximately $2.7 million, Boone said.

 

[RebelBruiser]

The first thing is Boone not demanding any coaching changes from Nutt. I have little faith in Boone, but I think that statement shows that he learned something from the Cutcliffe episode. To this day I don't believe they wanted to fire Cutcliffe after the 2004 season. I do believe they demanded staff changes though, and Cutcliffe refused, which painted them into the corner of firing him, which then painted us into the corner of not being a desirable place for a coach, which then painted us into the Orgeron corner.

I'm assuming that statement is directly effected by the Cutcliffe deal. If Nutt wants to make changes, he can make them. If he doesn't, and things don't pick up next year, we'll be getting a new staff in December 2011. That's the way we should've handled Cutcliffe. Tell him we aren't pleased but it's up to him what he wants to do to fix it. When 2005 went to crap again, then you could can him, and ideally we'd have not only been more attractive to up and coming coaches, but we would've been more prepared for the hiring process. In 2004, I don't think we had even looked at the market until after Cutcliffe's firing was announced.

The second thing I'd note is that I believe we gave Orgeron a raise and the typical extension following the 2006 season. He was fired following the 2007 season. The key with Orgeron's contract is that we either didn't increase his buyout in 2006 or we didn't extend it along with that raise. That's the same thing it appears was done here. You give the coach the extension to say to recruits he has the max contract on the books, but your buyout for the next year is no more than it would've been previously. The key is the buyout. I don't know if we had some handshake agreement on the buyout, but I haven't seen anything mentioning that changing.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

right now?

I do think you are right as to why Pete is saying that he did not dictate coaching changes.(probably dead on).