I think this carousel we are seeing a bunch of coaches explore, but i think we are going to see an unprecedented stay in coaches at their current gigs . I think a bunch of the schools hoping they land a large fish end up going smaller with a black eye but for the better overall.
The playoffs have opened some doors to smaller schools that simply did not exist before . Boise broke through last year, Tech is on the cusp, Louisville was on the cusp last year and this year. Why go to some big time program that will fire you for 9 wins, when your alma mater or some smaller school will pay you almost as much ? what if they give you 80% of the payouts for a playoff run ?
I keep hearing HC are ego maniacs , well offer one a $4M deal with incentives for 10+ wins, conference championships, playoff runs, and national championships. you knock them all out, you get $15M , you get 9 wins you get $4M . Performance based pay, how good are you really ?