I have an idea. Hire coaches as "at-will" employees, but pay over, say 30-40% the market rate, limit buy-out to remainder of season. Offer bonuses for wins.BearlyCareAnymore said:Let's get this clear. Every coach in America has a contract with the ability to be terminated for cause. And in zero of those contracts does "loses a lot" equal cause. No coach would take that deal. Otherwise there is no point in having a buyout because no one would ever pay the buyout. Surprisingly, coaches who get fired normally get fired because the school doesn't think their performance is good enough.Econ141 said:KoreAmBear said:Econ141 said:
How is it that "without cause" doesn't include on the field performance. Isn't that the his only cause for being here?
Cal can fire Wilcox "without cause" for any reason but is obligated to payout the rest of his contract (and with the extension through 2027). That's paragraph 12.
Cal has a right to fire Wilcox "for cause" pursuant to paragraph 9, which allows Cal to basically get out of future payments. But "for cause" is misconduct of the kind listed in paragraph 9 and not generally about poor performance. We're talking scandalous type stuff. Not happening with a straight shooter like Wilcox.
So he came just sit on his butt, not coach, and still get paid for years on end? Who wouldn't want a coaching job at cal
We go through this for every coach and athletic director we don't like. Especially because Cal keeps signing up to stupid buyouts. For cause is for things like ethical breaches. You can't fire coaches for losing without paying the buyout.
Even if you have a potential "for cause" claim, like potentially if Knowlton was found to have blown the McKeever thing, you are still likely to have a big lawsuit over that which means they normally will threaten to fire for cause and use it as leverage to somewhat lessen the buyout. I know some highly paid medical professors at one of the UC's (not SF) was found by the university to have committed a for cause offense and they paid a big severence for him to walk away.
The solution is to stop with the idiotic buyouts.
"Just win, baby."