Quote Originally Posted by dawgs View Post
Pretty sure Louisville has a huge buyout clause in petrino's contract. He screwed then once, screwed the falcons, and they had all the leverage coming off the motorcycle debacle, so they made sure the contract pretty much makes it prohibitive for anyone else to come in and hire him. Plus he's getting up there in age, any other P5 program that's better than Louisville is going to be looking at a younger version of petrino. Only saban and Meyer are such great coaches that everyone else would hire them regardless of age.
These top programs need to get away from this. They're all looking for the HR hire who becomes a beast of a coach that you have for 20+ years, but how often does that happen? Coaches of any caliber or age are rarely at a school for more than 10-15 years at absolute most, so they need to just focus on hiring the absolute best coach they can regardless of age. Otherwise you end up where the SEC is right now where schools like UGA, Florida, Tennessee, and LSU all have crap or unproven coaches (though at Florida and LSU, they obviously didn't go super young).