James Franklin sells the couch

theknowledge · October 12

https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/2107558#Comment_2107558

They just payed Jim Knowles 3 million to leave TOSU. Their OC they bought from Kansas. It’s not the coordinators it’s always the head coach.

PurpleThrobber · October 13

https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/2107529#Comment_2107529

http://twitter.com/allkindsweather/status/1977546906545877455

Seriously - and these fucking ADs will bitch and moan about lack of booster support when they fire these guys.

There is no need for a buyout at these salary levels - a coach making $12 million per year is not leaving for anything other than a $13 million per year job. And there’s not that many of those.

Defies economics.

DerekJohnson · October 13

https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/2107559#Comment_2107559

In a way you can say that them paying Knowles that much was a red flag, much like Emmert flying to Los Angeles in an effort to hire the UCLA DC to help out Tyrone.

DawgOfTheAges · October 13

I understand [kind of] the logic behind needing to give a large buyout to a coach to get them in the door in some cases but in most cases like Ryan Day and Kalen DeBoer as an example, they Wanted the Job and would not ever get as good an opportunity in another location so a jumbo buyout seems totally unnecessary… 1/2 the amount would have been plenty is my guess.

BleachedAnusDawg · October 13

Buyouts are really just guaranteed contracts. I'm sure everyone here knows that. The agents are the real problem. Schools don't know how to deal with them.