KoreAmBear said:
socaliganbear said:
And they won. Lol of course we kept the worst coach in the country. Why not.
We're hearing extension too for recruiting optics purposes. Oh Cal you really know how to fail big.
socaltownie warned about the slippery-slope of keeping a coach and the need to extend. If you keep a guy after going 3-15 this year, do you fire him if he goes 7-11 next year? And if you don't extend him now (which I can't imagine they would do, but I honestly couldn't really imagine keeping him either), you probably have to extend him next year if you decide to keep him.
I don't know if people realize it, but Ernie Kent originally got a 5-year deal with WSU. He went 13-18 (7-11) his first year, and got a 1-year extension to keep him at 5 years (presumably for recruiting optics), He went 9-22 (1-17) in year 2, and he got another 1-year extension! He went 13-18 (6-12) in year 3, and he got another 1-year extension to keep him at 5 years. They finally wised up the last two years and stopped the extensions, but those first three extensions are why there is still a three-year buyout of his contract after five years of coaching.
This is just another part of what makes this decision so frustrating. People keep suggesting that it is cheaper to keep him, and that is why we are doing it. The reality is that keeping him has costs too.
