The buyout for the remaining three years would be reduced to 2.4 million per year on Jan 1st. So he would get 7.2 million. I think Red is saying offer him 7.8 million to avoid waiting. He could refuse obviously but he would just lose money and hurt our program. Personally, I don't like the idea of waiting until the end of the season. It gives him too much leverage to negotiate that higher.
But, Collins has finally made Tech relevant again in the sports and local media! They report on how far we have fallen and how other coaches take their feet off the gas in empathy. We are on watch lists for an imminent firing! We better have a splashy new replacement after Collins is fired or that media buzz (no pun intended) will evaporate with his departure. He promised to make us relevant again. Had we only known he would rely upon his ineptitude to make that happen. The lingering question will be whether we can shake the “brand” and tarnished reputation he will have left us…
You are correct, I was thinking about that backwards.
This in all probability has been going on since last two games last year.
I hope you’re right.
I'm in favor of him not being our coach anymore, whatever it takes. I just doubt it will happen during the season since we've just watched 4 FBS games in a row where we scored 1 TD and 1 FG total while giving up 40+.
We're working on cleaning that up.....
Why wouldn't he? Lets say we lose to UCF and Pitt and we go to him and say, look we would like to end this early. It's obviously not going well. We can end it early and we will give you 1.5 million on top of the 7.2 million we will owe you on Jan 1st. You won't have to endure the media and fan hostility anymore. Or you can wait until the end of the year, get 1.5 million less, and you have to keep doing those weekly press conferences where you will have to keep explaining why your team is so bad. Why wouldn't he consider it? It would save us 1.8 million dollars, and let him get out of an awful situation and end up with more money. It would benefit everyone.
It's a gambit that might be worth a try and for over a million dollars in savings why not? But if I could take odds on this I'd bet the farm it will never happen.
Or not relying on a motion for a punt formation. Who are we fooling using a motion to get into punt formation? Just line up and execute the punt.
That is about the only thing about him that is "elite". The ability to wheedle money out of suckers. He's good, very good.Have to agree here. Nothing in it for him to take less $s. And clearly he is an elite negotiator. I'm not going to throw Todd or the GTAA under the bus or anything, but someone got taken in that contract negotiation.
