CBS Sports says Auburn and Gus Malzahn are in the process of redoing his contract so he will accept a lesser buyout in order to continue to coach there. Somebody explain why in the &%$# anybody would do that? I know I am not the brightest bulb in the box, but that doesn’t compute.
If he accepts a lesser buyout, doesn’t that make it easier to fire Gus? Plus, Gus would get less money. Somebody explain the rationale for this. The only thing I can fathom is Gus’s ego won’t allow him to be fired, so he had to accept a smaller buyout to stay. Who would do that? I would tell Auburn to fire me if they don’t want me.
When you have all the cards and a royal flush…why would you fold?
Auburn fans are just stupid. They were within a hair of telling him to go last year. Actually I thought we had the craziest fans but Auburn has proved time after time they have more money that fans.
THEY still hate him.
The only reason he is at Auburn this year is Auburn could not stomach the thought of ARKANSAS having him and not them, period…
If I was Gus I wouldn’t do it…Auburn would be a laughing stock paying 32 Mill :lol: $15 million due in 30 days and the rest to be paid in four annual installments. source 247 sports
I agree, 339…Auburn just broke the bank last year so we could not have Gus. But why in the world would Gus re-do the contract to accept a smaller buyout? I must be overlooking the obvious…whatever that might be. I just don’t get it.
Gus will have to win the West and probably the SEC next year to keep his job. Who wants to coach under that crazy expectation? Does anybody see Gus and Auburn winning the West next year?
I’m with ya’ll on this one. Makes no sense. I will say that when we go back for the Auburn game (my wife’s family are AU fans), they are constantly harping on Gus. I tell them how foolish they sound to bitch about a coach that went 10-4 and beat Alabama and Georgia last year. I’m no Gus fan, but come on! I think I’ve figured it out though, they have such an inferiority complex when it comes to the Tide and the Dawgs, that they have gone completely nuts. Can you imagine coaching for fans like that? Wait a minute…
Hey the business model in college coaching is totally irrational. Most of the colleges are in the public sector and public section employees are never guaranteed a large golden parachute for failure. Yes, I believe that the coaches deserve some compensation but $32 million or even a reduced amount is absurd. One day the University presidents and Boards will have to address this issue.
I suspect that Gus is really tired of the Auburn fans. If you look at the Auburn football blog sites, the fans treat Gus badly. Some of them have never gotten over him coming out of the high school ranks. I believe Auburn is ready for Bob Stoops. I also suspect that this deal contains some language that allows Gus to get another coaching job immediately. I believe Gus would be happy coaching in a less stressful conference and it is not all about the money to him, regardless of what some people on this site think. I don’t agree with the sentiment that Gus used Arkansas to get a raise. Gus wanted to coach a national championship team. The big money he got at Auburn just reaffirmed to him that they were committed to let him try for that magic season. I expect to see Gus at some smaller school in the future with a smile on his face.
Maybe it’s the school’s way of leaning on him to move on to another job because they want him gone and they don’t want to pay the buyout. They’re letting him know he isn’t very welcome there and if he stays it will be uncomfortable. I have no idea why he would accept the smaller buyout and assistant hiring restrictions unless for some reason he has to.
UNLESS he wants to get fired, and thinks its more likely to happen if the buyout gets reduced. Maybe he doesn’t want to be there anymore and wants some paid time off. Maybe he knows of a job somewhere that might be coming open after next season that he is waiting on.
It is called leverage. He makes concessions so that they don’t tighten the belts some place else and make it impossible to keep coaches, etc. It’s the old-fashioned way of doing it in a modern age of buyouts.
First, who knows if any of this is really true. The only negotiation on his contract that would make sense for Gus would be the immediate (30 day) amount if he were to be fired after the Bama game. He might say give me $24 million in 30 days and keep the other $8M.
Gus has all the cards. It would be so stupid to negotiate his buy-out downward, unless he’s negotiated more front end payment and giving up some on the back-end. If his attorney is not telling him the same, he needs a new attorney. He could then spend next year as an unpaid consultant to CCM (since they are so close) and enjoy some football Xs and Os without any of the head coaching headaches.
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You Barner fans are freakng delusional if you think Bob Stoops will coach at Auburn. HAHAHAHA!
He literally left a BETTER job than Auburn. The big money people at Auburn have worse little brother syndrome than A&M. LOL…
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There are some reliable sources that say the power brokers at Auburn have already had a meeting with Stoops. Stoops has responded to inquiries, saying that he does not have a deal with Auburn (that always happens). Personally, I don’t give a hoot who Auburn hires or doesn’t hire.
It all makes sense when you consider that AU AND Gus are negotiating to free up some cash to get a certain Grad Transfer to save all of their backsides from the Barner Mob outside their doors with torches and pitchforks! :lol:
There are some reliable sources that say the power brokers at Auburn have already had a meeting with Stoops. Stoops has responded to inquiries, saying that he does not have a deal with Auburn (that always happens). Personally, I don’t give a hoot who Auburn hires or doesn’t hire.
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Maybe Gus is feed up with the backstabbing Auburn power brokers. Remember when they had a deal with BP to take Tuberville’s job. Can’t trust the Auburn power brokers.
You Barner fans are freakng delusional if you think Bob Stoops will coach at Auburn. HAHAHAHA!
He literally left a BETTER job than Auburn. The big money people at Auburn have worse little brother syndrome than A&M. LOL…
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There are some reliable sources that say the power brokers at Auburn have already had a meeting with Stoops. Stoops has responded to inquiries, saying that he does not have a deal with Auburn (that always happens). Personally, I don’t give a hoot who Auburn hires or doesn’t hire.
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I believe your username makes it seem you are an Auburn fan.
Auburn doesn’t get to shuffle the cards it’s Gus’s turn to deal, this will get very interesting before this hand is played out. I hope he gets it all and every program learns a lesson for Auburn’s mistake with contracts to retain coaches. WPS
That sounds like something Auburn would do. Make it impossible to keep assistants just to make life harder for the HC. I’m not a Gus fan, but I’d love for him to let them do just that. It’d damage their program & allow someone like us to move up in the pecking order.
Its the pre-Gruden push. Auburn is fed up with Gus and they know Gruden will be fed up with Oakland and the NFL by the end of this season. Since Gruden is seen hanging around Auburn so much and has on several occasion been spotted wearing a Auburn colored tie, he is the next coach to lead them to the promise land. Like Saban, Gruden will spend a brief stint in the NFL (although its not his 1st time there like it was Sabans) then realize the SEC is the true land of milk and honey. He will then lift Auburn to a new high and crush Alabama and the SEC on the way to many titles for the old war eagles. Its a done deal. Watch it unfold.
*** PS - for the sarcastically challenged, kindly disregard this post. For the rest, enjoy the same chuckle I had in writing this mess.
