Are you sure about the $10.5m buyout number? My understanding is the buyout is $14m+ if he is fired prior to the end of next year and the buyout drops to $7.2m if he is fired after next year (and it decreases $2.4m/year for each remaining year). I think it's a $7m difference between now and next year and not $3.5m as suggested. Just wondering how accurate that $10.5m number you reference is.
Ken Suguira and the AJC editors put that in the article. He might not have great insight about X’s and O’s, but you would thing a newspaper would at least check those numbers before printing them
That meant that high-level donors had enough concern about the state of the team that they were willing to foot the bill for a buyout that would have cost $10.5 million, according to the terms of his memorandum of understanding. (The total drops to $7.2 million after the 2022 season by the terms of the aforementioned agreement.)
Also, this sentence is kind of vague, but I’d expect some announcements over the next few weeks for something.
"I know he's going to review kind of what it is that we need to do, where we are falling short, where there are holes in what we're doing, and we're going to work together to get those things fixed," Stansbury said.
If there are staff changes, I wonder if they’re only replacement coaches, or if they’re O’Leary-type hires where “you fix this, or that person will take over”.
Well, I don't think TSTAN is going anywhere. I do hope Geoff gets the memo to can the gimmicks and start acting like a head coach. Or else.
That’s not what I meant, but if Saturday is bad enough then it could be in the realm of possibilities. Like you said earlier, if this becomes (more of) a Cabrera problem, then circumstances change.
I think Stansbury has done a better job in a lot of areas than his predecessors, and the AA is a reclamation job that needs a lot of time to turn around, but you can’t let a major structural problem go unaddressed, and plaster doesn’t solve everything.
I mean, based on “we’re going to work together to get those things fixed” that
- There are no changes or more minor changes in staff, and we see only superficial changes. In that case, we’ll have a number of upset donors and fans…OR
- There are some major changes, but different than we expect….OR
- There are the changes we expect in staffing, but the general processes stay in place (“Money Down”, etc.)…OR
- We have a lot more changes under and around Collins than expected
I also have to wonder if contract renegotiations like Frost and Harbaugh happen; I think that’s unlikely, but it seemed unlikely when Frost and Harbaugh agreed to them, too.
There’s also the question of Stansbury’s statements over the last few months—how much are just talking points and spin, vs how much does Stansbury believe in them? For example, does he really see progress that hasn’t turned into wins? Or is that what he is saying to stabilize fan interest and season ticket sales? If it’s the latter, would he be better off saying something more earnest and making major promises of change?
With the old “three letters” coaching story, Stansbury is reusing the first letter a lot, instead of realizing that he’s hit letter #2 by now, at least.
