Posted on 11/13/2023 10:38:46 AM PST by airdalecheif
The buyout amount is the largest in college sports history. Texas A&M University fired head football coach Jimbo Fisher on Sunday, committing itself to spend more than $75 million to buy out his contract and announcing a national search for his replacement.
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Just bring back Sumlin, he did just about as well.
Why would we pay to have Urban Meyer come out of retirement when we still have Mark Dantonio on campus as faculty?
I have heard that in Texas, football is a ‘religion’.
$75 million is one hell of a tithe.....................
One of the problems comes with recruiting.
The big-name coaches have to bring in the 5-Star players, even if they don’t particularly mesh well together, or fit the scheme.
Amen to that. If I were in charge, there would be no playoffs or National Championship game--we would go back to the bowl system, which worked fine for a century. There would also be no football before Labor Day or after New Years Day, no games on Sundays or weekdays, and no kickoffs after 7:00 PM.
If students are putting off marriage and family- a vital institution- in order to pay back tens to hundreds of thousands in sudent loans, where the F does A&M come up with $75 million
Why would someone coaching a game even accept this kind of dough. Where is his wife on this choice?
I find it outrageous.
Guaranteed contracts are like that. I mean there’s a lot of dumb in getting to there, probably a very long contract with a very quick firing. But that’s how it works. Plenty of poorly run teams are paying for multiple coaches that don’t work there anymore.
>> Is football really that important in Texas?
YES
>> 75 million to remove a coach?
YES
>> That is shameful, at best, sinful at worst...............
YES, YES
An interesting 2nd order effect of the education/industrial, debt-bloated Fed.gov political complex?
All that money is coming from somewhere. Merely TV contracts?
Problem is now College Football is an NFL Farm System.
That’s why now a quarterback, like C.J. Stroud can easily make the jump to the NFL in his rookie season.
Players want to play for the schools that best prepare them for the NFL.
You should see some of the high school stadiums here, puts a lot of college stadiums to shame.
You've obviously never lived in Bryan-College Station, Tx.
How could this possibly make any fiscal sense? At all.
I miss the Wishbone, back when college football was different than the NFL.
Spot on. It’s not the university who’s paying, but donors.
Which begs the question: didn’t the 12th Man Foundation have final approval on Fisher’s absurdly ridiculous contract.....knowing full well it could come back to bite to the tune of 75 M ?
Of course they did. They’re the idiots. They’re the ones running A & M football, not the coaches, not the university, but a separate entity.
Rich people need their toys.
For 10%, fire me from whatever I may be doing?
Way too much money is being wasted by these Institutions of Higher Indoctrination. And much of that money comes from us. For what? A bunch of ignorant, entitled, woke sheep who can’t put a coherent thought together for the life of themselves.
4 injured QBs last season and this season because of terrible offensive line. He hasn’t won an away game in years. Last year, they weren’t bowl eligible and this year hasn’t been much better.
Plus 7 - 9 million per year he was there in salary.
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