Quote Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer View Post
  1. To fire Lemonis - you must pay 6MM buyout (According to Coach 34)
  2. To NIL Skenes - 250K (According to a dumb-as-dogshit LSU fan I know)
  3. Then MSU is better off keeping Lemonis and getting 4 Paul Skenes type pitch talents for 1M by appropriating "buyout" dollars to getting top-notch All American players.
  4. Win the National Championship in 2024
  5. Then fire Lemonis after the dog pile clears and buyout is zero, hire only 350K coaches from here out.
Buy out will NEVER be zero or even close to it. You can go a year without extending a coach's contract but not multiple years. If you do you will hamstring his efforts to recruit and retain coaches. It will become quite obvious the school is preparing to make a change. You really either need to commit to a coach or move on. Giving a coach one last 'trial' year in his 5th season on the job is not really a position you want to be in. Either you believe in a guy or you dont.