Come to think of it I doubt Franklin will A. Want to coach right away and B. Follow his buddy Brent Pry.
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Firing James Franklin only to hire diet James Franklin would be pretty funny.
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Why would Franklin have any desire to jump right back in with 50+ million owed to him whether he coaches again or not and he doesnāt make any more money if he actually coaches?
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It wouldnāt surprise me, I raised the same point elsewhere. He might go be an analyst or just take a full year off and do nothing like Bronco did.
But also coaches at that level are hyper-competitive weirdos. So it wouldnāt be a shock if he wanted to get right back in the fold and battle it out with Penn State on the recruiting trail.
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I donāt see why he wouldnāt take a job in the SEC or Big Ten. Unless he sees those as too high pressure and low chance of success. But if a job is in top half of either conference, hard to imagine him saying no
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Diet James Franklin
Comment of the yr
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As of now the SEC jobs are Ark and likely Floridaā¦ meh if Im in Franklinās shoes.
Other Big 10 job, right now would be Wisconsin which would be like going to a smaller more cheese covered version of what he left.
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Could see him taking Wisconsin. But Iād sit out a year if I were him rather than jump at VT or UNC
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True. Iām trying to think of recent high profile fired coaches. Jimbo still isnāt coaching. Scott Frost and Dan Mullen took multiple years off. Pat Fitzgerald and Mel Tucker arenāt working (and Tuckerās probably unhireable). Geoff Collins, Paul Chryst, Bryan Harsin, Justin Fuente, Ed Ogeron, Nick Rolovich, Matt Wells, Gary Patterson, Jimmy Lake still not working. Ken Niumatalolo took a year off. Manny Diaz and Tom Allen both became DCs at Penn State.
Only guy I could find that got fired from a P4/5 job and took another HC job immediately was Clay Helton and he went to Georgia Southern.
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He got Richtād.
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They hope so at least
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Yeah really sounds like heās the guy barring something unexpected. Iād personally rather have Franklin but maybe it had just run its course I guess.
And I like Matt Rhule, I think heās an awesome coach, he was my top choice when we hired Bronco. But his floor is a hell of a lot lower than Franklinās and Iām not sure the ceiling is any higher.
I do hope our administration is watching though and restrains themselves from doing anything too stupid extension wise this offseason.
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Ehā¦ given the buyout situation and where we currently are there could be a lot of worse scenarios for us than doing an extension that lowers the buyout. Remember thatās what happened with CTB. But yeah theyād need to clean that part of it up.
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I think there is basically a 0% chance of lowering Elliottās buyout if you extend him. You may not up it by much, but its so low right now that it would have to be increased, especially since heāll likely be coming of 8 or 9 (or hopefully even more) wins.
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Add UAB to the list of teams seeking a new HC. They are mercy firing Trent Dilfer after disastrous run.
But itās ultimately about optics. Like if Elliott produces one of the best seasons in UVAās history, you have to extend. At the very least to tell the CFB world that UVA actually wants seasons like this and values continued football success. Buyout raised or not, the reality is that if a 45 year old wins 9-11 games at UVA, extension is a non-negotiable. Anyone who doesnāt agree with that is tripping tbh
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These mid-8 figure buyouts are unsustainable. Theyāre a product of massive long-term contracts required to sign top-tier names combined with fansā panicky social media needs for instant gratification.
Whatās interesting to me about our situation is that thereās no way Coach Tony would still be here at about 80% of P4 schools given his prior record. And now he could achieve only the second 10-win season in U.Va. history. Even with the soft schedule thatās saying something.
I suppose you could simply observe itās the U.Va. way, but even if this season were less successful, Iām glad the decision makers chose to keep their powder dry. At some point, the top 15-20 programs are going to realize that blowing $50 million every three years just to make the fan base happy isnāt worth it.
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Unless a guyās been coaching a long time and already made lots of money or is older and doesnāt need the money, I donāt see any reason a guy would agree to reduce the amount of money heās guaranteed to receive just because his contract is extended for additional years (with no new guaranteed money).
Heās got 2 years left on his deal after this season, so you almost have to extend him if he wins 9-11 games. Maybe 3 more years for a total of 5.
Any buyoutās going to depend on how likely you think heād take another job. If you think itās likely and want to deter that or make it really costly to the new school and put in a big number for that side, then the number for the school to fire Elliott is going to be big too. If you want to lower the number to fire Elliott to 80% or 50%, then you lower the number for Elliott to leave too.
Maybe youāre OK with that, but if Elliott follows up with another 9 win season and skips town for Florida or USC or whatever, you have to start over and how much is that worth to you?
The flip side with negotiations with Elliott, you have to ask yourself āat what point are we worried weād lose him to an SEC or B1G school, or maybe even Clemson if heās a potential Dabo replacement one day.?ā Youāre not just extending him to project stability to recruits and donors, itās also to keep poachers at bay. Now Iām not saying one single winning season is enough to make Coach E a big target for bigger programs, thatās more if he puts a couple of consecutive big seasons together.
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