Butch Jones is signed through 2020. Don't coaches usually always at least get a 3 year cushion in their contract? The way I see it, either he is fired or gets an extension after this year. Surely Currie will have no choice but to let him go. Everyone knows he does not deserve an extension. Could Currie just leave his contract as is?
He could, of course. But then you get the 'but recruiting!' and what not, and so either he will be fired or get an extension.
It's why Sexton was hired. It's standard operating procedure to have a coach with 3 years remaining so they cm tell recruits "I'll be here"
4 years is standard for upper echelon coaches, IIRC, as it allows you the ability to reasonably promise recruits that you'll be there throughout their tenure, but also to prevent other schools from negatively recruiting against you, claiming that you won't be. From a personal perspective of the coach, if you're going to be fired, you'd rather it come with 3+ years remaining, as this gives you the freedom to take a year away and still have two years to get another gig, all while on the former school's dime. I can't think of a single instance where a P5 coach's contract got down to less than 3 years, much less that it gets down to a single year, without either the coach or school making a move, but that's off the top of my head.
Did he get below 3 years? I thought that the fire / don't fire him year was with 5 years left on his deal, but I'd trust your memory more than my own.
You can't really bring him back without the extension and claim you are behind him from that point forward, giving him every chance to win in recruiting and on the field. Thats not a good look when you go after the next guy. Its decision time, and Jones is making it easier every week.
Yes. By not extending him, you're basically firing him - only slowly - and will only further cripple our program via recruiting, while the inevitable is delayed.
The answer to that, if you don't fire him, is to extend him in a way that doesn't cost you anything meaningful if you have to fire him later so that the optics are good but the cost is small.
So do we all agree--he is either fired or extended? Currie will have a dumpster fire on his hands if he gives Butch an extension after this year.
yeah. it's almost impossible to fire a coach these days without a meaningful buyout because they have to be extended for recruiting purposes.
He'll probably beat Bama and a week later it comes out that Saban had a stroke pre-game and was mumbling incoherently throughout the entire game. Earns an extension despite losing to Kentucky.
It is, but it's also a matter of leverage. What leverage does butch have? Someone going to hire him away from us?