(11-06-2022 09:47 AM)EagleHawk Wrote:  

(11-05-2022 05:22 PM)Jerry Weaver Wrote:  

(11-05-2022 03:38 PM)EagleHawk Wrote:  

(11-04-2022 01:04 PM)TheWoodenNickle Wrote:  Belleville's HC Jermain Crowell was suspended, apparently for breaking some MHSAA rules. I don't know what his qualifications for a college job are but he may be someone that CC should look at for a staff position. The dude recruits a lot of talent.

Doubtful. He didn't even hire Corey Parker and he was an alum, let him just end up at Toledo.

Crowell will probably end up at MSU just like Wilcher or maybe Michigan grabs him.

When you have a contract through 2026 and are looking at a probable extension with a bowl game this year to 2027 at a school that is not able to buy you out, you have total control of your staff. You can be the OC, keep Neal Neathery and his outdated defense and stay away from HS coaches you might not like. That is totally CC's prerogative.

Harbaugh and Ryan Day both had to ditch their defensive coordinators because they work at schools that will buy them out for middling results. EMU has a football coach that could extend his contract for many years with 6-6 seasons.

Coaching in the MAC is an awfully nice proposition. You get the opportunity to use the league as a springboard like PJ Fleck did for a P5 payday. Or you can get an unreasonably long extension after one successful season and coast it out from there. Not good enough to attract a P5 school and the multi-million dollar offer? You will just have to settle for $600K a year with little accountability for performance for five seasons. Not a bad gig.

It also depends on the school. He'd be shown the door and never extended in the first place if he worked at Toledo, CMU, or WMU.

Is that true nowadays? Tim Leser has been very meh at WMU and many fans have wanted him gone for years. His records haven't been very different from Creighton's the past few years. Candle has consistently underperformed but was allowed to stick around to this point (to be fair, he does seem on track to win the MAC West for the first time, but was given a LOT of time to get here for a Toledo coach).

I just think the athletic department budget realities at MAC schools won't permit very many buyouts anymore. Nothing more than one year early, if at all.