Why is it so difficult to make a HC contract...

[maroonmania]

incentive based in college football? You don't hear of many, but that's what I didn't understand about last year. Even though it was sort of fluky how we got to 7-5 last year, Croom did deserve a reward for it. But I just didn't understand why we could have not bumped him to say 1.3 mil (still in the top 50 salaries) and made the rest incentive based on a winning season, getting to a bowl game, etc. Heck, I wouldn't have cared if Sly made 2 mil this year if he could have replicated last season's results again. Instead, we are locked into paying the full, new huge salary no matter how horrible the results of the season. And the salary of course is guaranteed over the full contract life which makes any buyout that much more difficult. To make some of the salary merit based just seemed to me then and now to have been the smarter way to go.

 

[patdog]

As you say, the raise should have been to $1.3M. Also, the extension should have been for 1 season (meaning his contract would expire after the 2010 season) rather than 2. If he had taken us to a bowl game again this season, he should have then gotten the raise to $1.7M.</p>