3D Chess - the Lesson of Paul Skenes

[maroonmania]

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.

[Johnson85]

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.

You can extend a coach while keeping the buyout the same. So if Lem has 3 years and a buyout that is $2M if he has 2 years left on his contract and $1M if he has one year left, then pretty easy to renew him to 4 years and make the buyout start at $2M, reduce to $1M, then $500k. That's not going to hamstring recruiting. Now at some point the coach will refuse to sign an extension as the cheap buyout gets closer to the current year, but I can't imagine Lemonis would balk at this point at getting a 4 year extension if there is any buyout after the end of his current contract. If he gets a $100k if he is fired after what would be the end of his current contract, that's a pretty good deal for somebody that arguably should be fired.