(05-03-2019 11:29 AM)ColumbusCard Wrote:  

(04-30-2019 05:05 PM)P5PACSEC Wrote:  

(04-29-2019 10:42 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  He won’t stay. NCAA football and basketball coach contract terms mean very little.

Lots of people think that and that is OK. I believe Chris wants to be in Lubbock for awhile and win a few national championships. I know some heads would explode if Tech won a few basketball natty's.

Most schools will have a hard time coming up with the $$'s it would take to get Beard out of Lubbock. Not sure if this correct but I read somewhere that if UT wants Beard, they would have to pony up $15+ million to buyout their current coach and pay for Beard. Not many schools have the financial means to spend that kind of upfront cash on a basketball coach.
Football--- absolutely. Basketball-??? Duke, Kansas, North Carolina, Kentucky.

Oh well, it gives people linked below something to talk about because they can't talk about their own schools.

https://twitter.com/BackAftaThis/status/...2569137154

https://twitter.com/Stadium/status/1123270796053368832

Louisville, OSU, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin could all easily afford Beard

That isn't reality because Louisville, and Ohio St aren't blue bloods like Kansas, North Carolina, Duke and Kentucky. Chris Beard won't leave for a school like Illinois, Indiana or Wisconsin.

Now let's deal with reality:
Louisville would have to come up with $5 million Mack's buyout plus the $3 million Tech buyout plus the the new salary of $4.5 million just to get Beard to listen. Is Louisville willing to spend $13.5 million on a HC that just finished his 4th year in the P5?

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sp...467779002/

https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college...id-coaches

Ohio St is simply a nonstarter based on a very friendly deal for Chris Holtmann. Ohio St would have to spend $20 plus million to even entertain the thought of hiring Chris Beard.
https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2017/06/ch...ntrac.html

If Beard leaves, it will be a blue blood like Kansas, North Carolina, Duke, Kentucky or the NBA. He definitely isn't leaving until his daughters graduate high school in Abilene. I hope Tech has 2 or 3 natty's by that point.