LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky men’s basketball head coach John Calipari and football head coach Mark Stoops have each agreed to two-year extensions to their respective contracts, Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart announced on Wednesday.
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Maybe to throw in the buyout? I like the rewards structure though.Why extend him? I would make him show me another year of progress.
Why extend him? I would make him show me another year of progress.
There is a one million dollar buyout now.faith!
Guarantee no buyout was added.
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Color me shocked (and wrong). Good to know.There is a one million dollar buyout now.
The buy out looks like a step backward. He only has a 1 million dollar buy out to leave. That's pocket change for most schools that might come after him. On the other hand we just tacked on 2 more years at 4+ million per that we have to pay if we have to terminate him. And again this was not the time for this. 6 months ago his job was hanging by a thread. Stoops has clearly bought himself some space but he needs more than 1 season to justify another extension. And again nobody is coming after him so why do it.Maybe to throw in the buyout? I like the rewards structure though.
Exactly. The timing of this is stupid. No one is after Mark Stoops, but we just made him the 7th or 8th highest paid coach in America the last 2 years of this contract. We also increased a buyout that everyone on this board thought was ridiculous last year. Extend Calipari every year, he is doing a fantastic job and any of my complaints are very minor in the grand scheme of things, but I would have liked to see a much better defense last year and I kind of feel like a lot of what we accomplished was against the very worst SEC East we have ever seen and will ever see again. This definitely falls under the "I hope I am wrong and he shows me more" category, but even if he does there was no need to give him an extension.The buy out looks like a step backward. He only has a 1 million dollar buy out to leave. That's pocket change for most schools that might come after him. On the other hand we just tacked on 2 more years at 4+ million per that we have to pay if we have to terminate him. And again this was not the time for this. 6 months ago his job was hanging by a thread. Stoops has clearly bought himself some space but he needs more than 1 season to justify another extension. And again nobody is coming after him so why do it.
You can still be all in without extending him right now. He still had 3 full seasons left on his contract. If he continues down the road he is on, this yes, next summer I would agree 100%, but it's too soon.I see the point of those questioning the decision, but after watching 35+ years of mostly bad football with an occasional good year once a decade, I'm willing to go all in on Stoops. The probability of getting a replacement that would recruit at an SEC level as he has, is remote, and coaching has improved each year.
You can still be all in without extending him right now. He still had 3 full seasons left on his contract. If he continues down the road he is on, this yes, next summer I would agree 100%, but it's too soon.
You can still be all in without extending him right now. He still had 3 full seasons left on his contract. If he continues down the road he is on, this yes, next summer I would agree 100%, but it's too soon.
But right now he can't tell the current guys he is recruiting that he will be here to see them graduate (and some troll will use that fact against him on the recruiting trail).
Too soon. Barney knee jerk reacting again. Should have waited another season. One bowl game is no proof of future success.
I get it, but he has 3 years left, not 1 or 2. Gus Malzahn has a contract for 3 more years, Bret Bielema has 3 more years...those are just 2 I noticed real quick. It's a fine line between digging a hole and being smart I could understand if he had 1 or 2 left, but he has 3 left.But right now he can't tell the current guys he is recruiting that he will be here to see them graduate (and some troll will use that fact against him on the recruiting trail).
Completely agree. Taking a team from 2-10 to 7-5 with the added benefit of great recruiting is absolutely no grounds to extend a coach at a perennial loser. For shame, Mitch. The hell is that man thinking?
And ANOTHER thing... Why'd he extend Calipari? I mean, c'mon. One championship, a few Final Fours, and he's had eight years to do so much more. Disgraceful. FAR' EM.
We didn't lock him up, that's the thing. We put a lousy $1 million buyout in his contract. That is going to stop no school from comIng after him. What we did is commit more money and make the buyout on our end more. I think Stoops is the guy, I have been one of the few Mitch supporters on here, but this one makes no sense to me.Funny. The ones on here complaining about the extension are the very ones that would be complaining loudest because Barnhart didn't "lock him up" if Stoops were to leave.
A buyout isn't going to lock him up. Showing goodwill toward him at this point will do more than any large buyout will toward keeping him at UK.We didn't lock him up, that's the thing. We put a lousy $1 million buyout in his contract. That is going to stop no school from comIng after him. What we did is commit more money and make the buyout on our end more. I think Stoops is the guy, I have been one of the few Mitch supporters on here, but this one makes no sense to me.
He can't really tell them that anyway, only 2 or 3 coaches can. And it's not the extension that I am concerned about or the pay increase it's locking us in to an unknown while Stoops is not really locked in at all.But right now he can't tell the current guys he is recruiting that he will be here to see them graduate (and some troll will use that fact against him on the recruiting trail).
People talk about buyouts because the more years you add to a contract the bigger the buyout is, and if a guy doesn't succeed, then it can be a deterrent to moving on from that coach. Everything we discuss on here in relation to the program is out of our control...no one is stressed about it, just sharing our take on it.Some real genius comments, as expected from this board. It ain't about losing him, it is about saying loud and clear to 2018 and 2019 recruits he is here to stay. No coincidence this is done right after Marrow locked up.
Glad we did it before the season not during like 2014. And last point, all y'all worried about buyouts, it ain't your money if it came to that so don't stress about stuff out of your control.
If he goes 3-9 the next two seasons, how do you get rid of him? He has had one decent year since he has been here and you are going to lock up all that money in him?
So you believe the SECOND extension was warranted?As usual the biggest problem with this thread is defining success as 7 wins. If fans would be honest Stoops winning 10 games combined in year 2 and 3 was a damn miracle. This roster was the worst in p5 football. If fans would come to terms with how awful the situation for Stoops was then Stoops has had 3 very good seasons.
Yes I do. I was sold when Stoops won 5 games his 2nd year with the band of misfit toys. Nothing against those guys but most of that roster had no business playing division 1 football. We went 4 4 in conference with a 160 pound back up qb and a defense with all soph. Stoops has worked miracles from what Joker did. We had like 30 guys leave under Stoops and 1 guy went division 1. AJ Legree thats it.So you believe the SECOND extension was warranted?
This miracle talk is ridiculous. First off it was bad but not even as close to being as bad as some are trying to exaggerate it to be. This is like Matt Jones constantly stating that UK was a mid level MAC team when Joker left. Never mind the fact that during Joker's last year Kent State went undefeated in the MAC and we blew them out. We were not a quality SEC team for sure but we were hardly a mid level MAC team either.Yes I do. I was sold when Stoops won 5 games his 2nd year with the band of misfit toys. Nothing against those guys but most of that roster had no business playing division 1 football. We went 4 4 in conference with a 160 pound back up qb and a defense with all soph. Stoops has worked miracles from what Joker did. We had like 30 guys leave under Stoops and 1 guy went division 1. AJ Legree thats it.