It's all about the money now. Bottom line.
In decades past, coaches wanted to stay at a program and "build" a program into national relevance. Some coaches were hired to "rebuild" programs that were already nationally relevant but perhaps had fallen off. - Under the old rules of college football, that was possible. That "model" if you will....is dead now with the NIL $$ and all the other nonsense that goes on in college football. IE: players projected to go to the NFL in the draft, so they forgo bowl games, etc, etc. - It is LITERALLY all about the $$ now days.
Coach Beamer is old school though in his thinking. He wants to be at South Carolina. That's great. He keeps his nose clean, and is generally speaking a good spokesman for the University, runs a clean program, etc....etc and he's ALMOST a very good coach.
Let's talk money. When Muschamp was fired, the university owed him roughly 12.9 million. That money was owed to a proven loser. $12.9 million right down the drain. If you fire Beamer, the University will owe him 65% of his remaining contract.....resulting in more millions being paid to a failed coach. WE KEEP PAYING MONEY ON THE BACK END and it needs to be reversed immediately!!!
Look up "highest paid assistants in college football" - You will find a list of guys making in the $2 million range. Now look at Clayton White's contract - he's right there with those guys making $2 million-ish. Now ask yourself a question: Does our Defense absolutely suck??? No. they're actually very serviceable to "good", even.
Now look at Shula's pay. Approx. $1 million per year. - Question: Does our offense suck? Yepp. Why? Could it be because we're paying approx 50% less for a decent OC compared to other schools? Yepp.
Now look at the former OL coach Teasley. He got the biggest "raise" by 65% (approx, according to Google) going from $400k per year to $675k per year for what??? For producing back to back years of being ranked 120th+ in sacks allowed. --- This season was going in EXACTLY THE SAME DIRECTION before he was fired. Giving that man a raise was absolutely unacceptable BY ANY STANDARDS!!!
QB coach?? - What QB coach?? - Reckon' Sellers needs/needed a serious QB coach?? Yepp.
My point: STOP PAYING THESE GUYS ON THE BACK-END OF A BAD CONTRACT.....that is literally pissing $$$ away. - Instead: take that money and pay COMPETENT COACHES upfront. When other coaches around the country look and see that we pay assistants approx 50% less than what the market is paying "good" coaches, is it really a shock why no good coaches want to come here? Nope.
In fact: I offer you this example with Muschamp's hypothetical $12.9 million we wasted. Take that 12.9 million and divide it by 3..... That's 4.3 million YOU WERE GOING TO PAY ANYWAY.... put that money on 3 new assistants. OC, OL, and QB coach....instantly making them the highest paid assistants in the country. It will make a splash across the nation. It will turn heads. Turning heads is not exactly the hot button issue... but if you want things to change for the better, I suggest starting there.
Or, just keep throwing $$ away at the literal definition of insanity. Hiring loser coaches, overpaying them massively, wasting money on the back end, and the ever present 5 year turnover of futility.
With $$ (approximate $$) that was going to be paid anyway - this doesn't seem overly complicated to me. Pay them. They will come. Promise. Even if they come and don't give it their all.... the results will be better than hiring incompetent coaches in the first place. - Probably.
In decades past, coaches wanted to stay at a program and "build" a program into national relevance. Some coaches were hired to "rebuild" programs that were already nationally relevant but perhaps had fallen off. - Under the old rules of college football, that was possible. That "model" if you will....is dead now with the NIL $$ and all the other nonsense that goes on in college football. IE: players projected to go to the NFL in the draft, so they forgo bowl games, etc, etc. - It is LITERALLY all about the $$ now days.
Coach Beamer is old school though in his thinking. He wants to be at South Carolina. That's great. He keeps his nose clean, and is generally speaking a good spokesman for the University, runs a clean program, etc....etc and he's ALMOST a very good coach.
Let's talk money. When Muschamp was fired, the university owed him roughly 12.9 million. That money was owed to a proven loser. $12.9 million right down the drain. If you fire Beamer, the University will owe him 65% of his remaining contract.....resulting in more millions being paid to a failed coach. WE KEEP PAYING MONEY ON THE BACK END and it needs to be reversed immediately!!!
Look up "highest paid assistants in college football" - You will find a list of guys making in the $2 million range. Now look at Clayton White's contract - he's right there with those guys making $2 million-ish. Now ask yourself a question: Does our Defense absolutely suck??? No. they're actually very serviceable to "good", even.
Now look at Shula's pay. Approx. $1 million per year. - Question: Does our offense suck? Yepp. Why? Could it be because we're paying approx 50% less for a decent OC compared to other schools? Yepp.
Now look at the former OL coach Teasley. He got the biggest "raise" by 65% (approx, according to Google) going from $400k per year to $675k per year for what??? For producing back to back years of being ranked 120th+ in sacks allowed. --- This season was going in EXACTLY THE SAME DIRECTION before he was fired. Giving that man a raise was absolutely unacceptable BY ANY STANDARDS!!!
QB coach?? - What QB coach?? - Reckon' Sellers needs/needed a serious QB coach?? Yepp.
My point: STOP PAYING THESE GUYS ON THE BACK-END OF A BAD CONTRACT.....that is literally pissing $$$ away. - Instead: take that money and pay COMPETENT COACHES upfront. When other coaches around the country look and see that we pay assistants approx 50% less than what the market is paying "good" coaches, is it really a shock why no good coaches want to come here? Nope.
In fact: I offer you this example with Muschamp's hypothetical $12.9 million we wasted. Take that 12.9 million and divide it by 3..... That's 4.3 million YOU WERE GOING TO PAY ANYWAY.... put that money on 3 new assistants. OC, OL, and QB coach....instantly making them the highest paid assistants in the country. It will make a splash across the nation. It will turn heads. Turning heads is not exactly the hot button issue... but if you want things to change for the better, I suggest starting there.
Or, just keep throwing $$ away at the literal definition of insanity. Hiring loser coaches, overpaying them massively, wasting money on the back end, and the ever present 5 year turnover of futility.
With $$ (approximate $$) that was going to be paid anyway - this doesn't seem overly complicated to me. Pay them. They will come. Promise. Even if they come and don't give it their all.... the results will be better than hiring incompetent coaches in the first place. - Probably.
