Maybe a Crazy Idea . . . .

[The-Hack]

But if there were an alum or wealthy program sponsor, what could stop them from doing “an option contract,” paying a potential hot coaching commodity, say 2 or 3 million, to refrain from interviewing with other programs for, say, eighteen months, or two years.

It would not “interfere” with their current employment, so their current employer could not complain.

 

[BlueRaider22]

I can't see any coach and/or agent going for something like that......at least the vast majority. Most coaches and agents want more and more people talking to them.......leverage and options.

Let's take Sumrall for instance. What if he has a banner year? What if the hush money keeps him from talking to the Blue Blood programs?

 

[gamalielkid]

I can't see any coach and/or agent going for something like that......at least the vast majority. Most coaches and agents want more and more people talking to them.......leverage and options.

Let's take Sumrall for instance. What if he has a banner year? What if the hush money keeps him from talking to the Blue Blood programs?

Sumrall will be coach at Auburn, Alabama or Kentucky someday. Kentucky has to be first to offer or he never comes here - that’s my opinion.

Go Big Blue!

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Sumrall will be coach at Auburn, Alabama or Kentucky someday. Kentucky has to be first to offer or he never comes here - that’s my opinion.

Go Big Blue!

He’s waiting out for Bama. That dude wont last long if he keeps losing to Vanderbilt.

 

[Short-Dawg-69]

Sumrall will be coach at Auburn, Alabama or Kentucky someday. Kentucky has to be first to offer or he never comes here - that’s my opinion.

Go Big Blue!

Agree

 

[BlueRaider22]

Sumrall will be coach at Auburn, Alabama or Kentucky someday. Kentucky has to be first to offer or he never comes here - that’s my opinion.

Go Big Blue!

That's my point. He's a hot name right now. Why would he take some money that would prevent him from the possibility of a Bama for several yrs?

 

[FirewithFire]

Like a retainer? I like the idea but have no idea about the legal standing.

 

[UKat1]

Sumrall will be coach at Auburn, Alabama or Kentucky someday. Kentucky has to be first to offer or he never comes here - that’s my opinion.

Go Big Blue!

Auburn will get him as Mitch won't ax Stoopid, it will take a stadium with 1,000 fans in it and a loss (remember it took that to get him to fire joker) for him to fire Stoopid....Mitch, don't get mexwrong he's done a great job overall with athletics but just is a horrible negotiator and should never be allowed to negotiate any coaches contract. I don't think he has the balls to fire Stoopid

 

[UKat1]

That's my point. He's a hot name right now. Why would he take some money that would prevent him from the possibility of a Bama for several yrs?

Deboer will be at Bama at least the next 5 yrs or longer. He's had a couple of hiccups but he's figuring out what is required at Bama. Unlike us, Bama demands and expects EXCELLENCE.....not mediocrity and 4 win seasons.....or 8-9 2in seasons, those are unacceptable. At UK they get you a statue and at Bama that gets you fired.

 

[satcheluk]

But if there were an alum or wealthy program sponsor, what could stop them from doing “an option contract,” paying a potential hot coaching commodity, say 2 or 3 million, to refrain from interviewing with other programs for, say, eighteen months, or two years.

It would not “interfere” with their current employment, so their current employer could not complain.

So let me get this straight. You're a lawyer, right? Coming to the lay person bottom of the barrel for a legal opinion?

I'm not a lawyer, but I've paid enough to them to pay for law school and, as a finance/real estate guy, I've been party to plenty of options contracts. I like the OtB thinking. If they did go that way how would you structure the contract to protect yourself from getting taken? Every options contract I've been party to gives the buyer (UK) the right, but not obligation to buy(hire said coach) at a specific price by a specific date. I'm not sure you could get around tortious interference because you would essentially be signing a futures contract while they are already under contract with their current employer. Maybe you could word it so the option commences after his contract expires or he leaves or gets fired? You'd obviously put a morals clause in your own and I would try my damndest to make a balloon payment at the end of the deal. If his employer ever found out about it, they would fire him with cause.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

He’s waiting out for Bama. That dude wont last long if he keeps losing to Vanderbilt.

Lots of folks waiting out Bama, Kiffin would pull his teeth for the job. Bama probably goes 10-2 and in the playoffs this year, but they are losing kids in Nov who were committed to them, before they were flipping kids to them in Nov.

 

[The-Hack]

If his employer ever found out about it, they would fire him with cause.

Maaaybe, but I suspect Troy (knew) and Tulane knows they have a tiger by the tail, and will be grateful for whatever they get out of him.

 

[satcheluk]

Maaaybe, but I suspect Troy (knew) and Tulane knows they have a tiger by the tail, and will be grateful for whatever they get out of him.

Maybe, but by firing him, thus losing their best coach ever(?), would play well in court when they sued UK, no?

 

[The-Hack]

Maybe, but by firing him, thus losing their best coach ever(?), would play well in court when they sued UK, no?

Thinking like a lawyer could ruin a wet dream!

 

[satcheluk]

Thinking like a lawyer could ruin a wet dream!

Not sure how you turn it off. My financial/business analyst mind is driven by data and efficiency analysis which bleeds into every aspect of my life. My family loves it every time I ask is that the best/most efficient way to complete said task and I'm not sure that would ruin my wet dream.

 

[The-Hack]

Not sure how you turn it off.

Lol.

I find myself thinking (or actually saying) “note my objection,” at unusual times, like losing a hand in poker.

Language and common usage is amazing, based upon culture.

My GF and I went to Antigua on vacation twice. Few American couples were there, as it is mostly British tourists.

But we did meet an American couple on our second trip, who went back home mid-week. A Brit couple asked the whereabouts of the other Americans the day after they left.

Both of us said, “The Smith’s are back state-side.” We repeated it, and the Brits said they understood the words but not their meaning. We laughed when we realized that that easy American phrase would have no meaning anywhere else in the world.

 

[satcheluk]

Lol.

I find myself thinking (or actually saying) “note my objection,” at unusual times, like losing a hand in poker.

Language and common usage is amazing, based upon culture.

My GF and I went to Antigua on vacation twice. Few American couples were there, as it is mostly British tourists.

But we did meet an American couple on our second trip, who went back home mid-week. A Brit couple asked the whereabouts of the other Americans the day after they left.

Both of us said, “The Smith’s are back state-side.” We repeated it, and the Brits said they understood the words but not their meaning. We laughed when we realized that that easy American phrase would have no meaning anywhere else in the world.

I've had similar experiences. I lived in Tokyo for nearly a decade and had a number of British/Aussie colleagues. Both had the ability, if conversing with their fellow countrymen, to speak in English words that I understood individually, but had zero comprehension of the conversation they were having. To that point, I had a bilingual Aussie friend who MC'd my wedding reception, as he was fluent enough in Japanese to make jokes and could speak English for all my guests in from the US. About 30 minutes into the reception my mother came up to me and said I thought you said your friend spoke English! He heard and said I DO speak English, I just don't speak American. lol

 

[The-Hack]

He heard and said I DO speak English, I just don't speak American. lol

The natives of Antigua are 99 percent African descent, and at least half of them speak (to Americans) with a very distinct mid-western accent. Seriously, about half the population sounds as though they are from Northern Ohio. But some speak with a “Rastafarian” or Jamaican accent. Then, when conversing with one another, they sound French, but it is their local dialect of English.

Most Antiguans have spent time in either the UK or US. Many have children at University in England; one cab driver had two in Cambridge. Yet, there is no “English” accent.

And some odd sayings are shared across the pond. I heard an American President use the phrase “penny wise and pound foolish,” the same day a British Prime Minister used the phrase “you can bet your bottom dollar.”

 

[The-Hack]

And some odd sayings are shared across the pond.

And yet, some words/phrases are so odd.

One middle-aged couple was in Antigua to see their son marry. I asked the wife what her husband did as an occupation, and she proudly said “he’s a joiner.” I glanced at my girlfriend and she quickly said, “and we call
that a carpenter in the US.”

In my part of the US being (or not being) a “joiner” indicates who has and has not joined the Masonic Lodge.

 

[yoshukai]

Sumrall will be coach at Auburn, Alabama or Kentucky someday. Kentucky has to be first to offer or he never comes here - that’s my opinion.

Go Big Blue!

Well if goes to Auburn we can just wait a couple years until they fire him because……….that’s what they do .

 

[ukfan1622]

So we go to a coach and tell them "Hey, you know we're going to fire our current coach but not for a couple years. Can we pay you to turn down opportunities for a couple years to wait for us to fire the coach we already know we're going to fire...unless his teams show some improvement and then we won't fire him."