Barney will be in a pickle after this football season...
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He's already said. "If we go 2 or 3 MORE years like last year - we will have to take a closer look at the situation."
Go Big Blue!
Do you need for us to join in a circle and sing campfire songs?
That's because Coach Stoops' buyout won't be LOW enough for AT LEAST "2 or 3 more years"!!!!
Mitch will give ANY and EVERY excuse possible to shield HIMSELF from that HORRIBLE buyout!!!
The question will become, will our fans keep coming to games for "2 or 3 more years" if Coach Stoops can't win enough games???
If CMS has another bust season I’m almost willing to bet he walks.
Kind of like Cal.
Did MB fire Cal. No. However, I’m almost positive there were a lot of terms that he didn’t want to abide by should he return.
Tenured people with plush gigs don’t budge not only because of pay, but more so the control. Cal clearly didn’t need the money he opted to take less money and throw his golden parachute retirement plan down the toilet just so he could continue to do things his way.
CMS isn’t going to want to clean house, specifically tell his boys to bounce. He won’t want to bring in new staff and change style. Which will be all but mandated from brass.
The ole “so and so is sniffing around” routine won’t work. Nobody is going to get a bump or extension.
Kind of like Cal.
Did MB fire Cal. No. However, I’m almost positive there were a lot of terms that he didn’t want to abide by should he return.
Tenured people with plush gigs don’t budge not only because of pay, but more so the control. Cal clearly didn’t need the money he opted to take less money and throw his golden parachute retirement plan down the toilet just so he could continue to do things his way.
CMS isn’t going to want to clean house, specifically tell his boys to bounce. He won’t want to bring in new staff and change style. Which will be all but mandated from brass.
The ole “so and so is sniffing around” routine won’t work. Nobody is going to get a bump or extension.
How do you know how many wins we will get? What if it's a better season than you think?
You have a confirmation bias and nothing will change your mind. 9-4 or 4-8, your attitude is unchanged. It's boring.
Use your head. What Barnhart says about his coaches in public is not what he is saying to them privately. It doesn't take a genius. Just a little common sense.
And you REFUSE to face the FACTS. I am a high K-Fund season ticket holder and have been one for over 35 years!!! I support this program through good times and hard times!! So I speak from a place of REALISM.
I was ELATED 5 years ago when Mark Stoops Program was rolling by recruiting players that he could mold into SEC contenders through hard work AND discipline. Then, for some odd reason, he decided to let certain players SLIDE. I guess he was afraid of NIL and the transfer portal, but that was a HORRIBLE mistake.
So now we have a program that is fighting to get back to where it was with a coach that LOST his MOJO.
He is facing the HARDEST schedule I can remember in my 45 years of following UK Football. Mitch gave Coach Stoops a contract that tied the 2 together for these next few seasons and YOU know it!!!
I am hoping that Coach Stoops can turn it around, but I am skeptical. Would be THRILLED if he proved me wrong and got to 9-4 again!!! But I highly doubt it will be next season.
Actually, Calipari is alleged to have breached his contract, and was toast after he did so. As long as Stoops doesn't breach his contract, he's in no obligation to go anywhere without a massive buyout. Calipari absolutely had the ability to operate as he pleased, until he allegedly made a mistake and, then, he no longer had that ability and was tossed, or, at least, he was only allowed back under new terms- which he chose not to accept.
If Stoops doesn't make a similar alleged mistake, or some other mistake, he will either turn things around and stay as long as we wants, or go somewhere else; or he won’t turn things around, and he'll either be fired with a MASSIVE payout or he'll be kept and he'll try and try again to do better than 4-8 or 5-7 or whatever. Even if we suck next year, 4-8 or 5-7 will probably be good enough to keep him, whatwith that buyout, which is quite big.
But, if they go 2-10, with 9 P4 losses and a Toledo loss to boot, I'll bet he's out. 3-9, and it's 50/50, even better if one of the three wins is some massive upset against a Tennessee or Georgia, or if we somehow spank Louisville and I mean spank them like they just spanked us in November. That could save him even at 3-9.
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If Mitch fires him even with a 3-9 record, UK is on the hook for nearly $30 million!!! I just don’t see our big money donors forking up to pay that because I KNOW Mitch alone won’t. Plus you add in having to pay the next coach and ALL the players he wants to bring in and you are talking about A WHOLE LOT of money!!
We don’t have the money Texas A&M had to buyout Jimbo Fisher. Stoops buyout would be the 2nd highest EVER!!!
