What is the cost savings of a lost season?
With the new contract if Harbaugh fails this coming season what is the buyout 12 months from now compared to now? Just trying to figure the price we put on another losing another season. It seems most everyone is on board with a discounted Harbaugh. I am not in that camp at all but wondered if its 10,15, 20 Million? I havent seen football fans this happy since the Minnesota game. Ill give ya this when the board has an idea dont swim upstream its official this is a good thing.
January 8th, 2021 at 7:12 PM ^
Read the post about the contract details. Buyout after next year is 4 mil.
January 8th, 2021 at 7:13 PM ^
That is 50% of the equation/question.
January 8th, 2021 at 8:25 PM ^
Or do you mean "fitty cent" ?
January 8th, 2021 at 7:14 PM ^
Correct - a whole thread for this question, which is answered by the previous post - wow
January 8th, 2021 at 7:17 PM ^
My bad didnt see this years buyout on there.
January 8th, 2021 at 7:24 PM ^
All good - we have all made some MGoBloopers
January 8th, 2021 at 7:12 PM ^
I thought I heard it was a $10 million buyout for Jim (not any other staffers) this year. And in year 1 of his new contract I believe it's $4 million and goes down by $1 million each year after.
January 8th, 2021 at 7:16 PM ^
$6 million is the divide in the price? Wow I hope we are missing something there?
Also thank you for the response. I really didnt know how wide the divide was from this year to next.
January 8th, 2021 at 7:41 PM ^
It is probably more than $6 million. Presumably a new coach would
be paid more than $4 million next year.
January 8th, 2021 at 7:54 PM ^
Presumably, a new coach will require Michigan to pay a buyout. Unless they find someone that is on the bench and will come cheap. There's usually a decent reason why coaches are on the bench and readily available without a buyout...
January 8th, 2021 at 7:13 PM ^
That's one hell of a word salad you just served up for the board. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
January 8th, 2021 at 7:16 PM ^
Yes - concerns exist about Wernicke’s area
January 8th, 2021 at 7:19 PM ^
What's the cost of lost brain cells?
January 8th, 2021 at 7:28 PM ^
Why save when you can spend and get more in return?
January 8th, 2021 at 7:32 PM ^
The "price" is that this move will set the program back years.
When Harbaugh started, we hoped we could get back to some sort of parity with OSU.
After 2019, we hoped we could get back to some sort of parity with PSU, Wisconsin, and OSU.
Now, we are hoping we can get back to some sort of parity with MSU, PSU, Wisconsin, OSU, and maybe even Indiana and Iowa.
But by all means, extend him.
January 8th, 2021 at 8:00 PM ^
Yeah, the negs are coming for you tonight... I really don't understand the love for bringing him back. He is very clearly not the same coach that had this program humming in 2015 and 2016. His demeanor is different; his clarity of thought is non-existant; his ability to communicate has declined from what we heard in the 2018 Amazon documentary (which wasn't good); his offense hasn't improved, or even changed, despite the constant changes in assistants. We see the same mistakes, unforced errors, and lack of development every year since 2017. Welcome to competing against MSU, MD, and Rutger for 3rd-4th place every year...
But by all means, extend him.
January 9th, 2021 at 1:09 AM ^
And Indiana.
January 8th, 2021 at 7:43 PM ^
"Ill give ya this when the board has an idea dont swim upstream its official this is a good thing."
Thanks so much for giving us this!
I stopped doing the NYT Sunday cross word because this sentence is a far more challenging puzzle.
January 8th, 2021 at 7:49 PM ^
One possibility is that JH is very popular with the Board of Regents and within the AD and Warde felt he couldn't really fire him and bring in Campbell after just one truly crappy season. I wouldn't have supported firing JH after 2019 but wouldn't have been bummed if he had jumped to Cowboys.
This is a place where athletic department lifers, Regents, and former players seem to have a lot of influence and can make life either easier for someone they like or nastier for an outsider w/no UM connection. Maybe these people told Warde that JH deserved one more season before moving on.
Suffice to say, anything worse than 9 wins and Warde will feel he has clearance to move. Not that 9-4 should be the standard here, but that's what he averaged 2015-19, more or less.
Campbell and Fickell and maybe a few others will be available - and we'll get one of them.
So what is the cost of one lost season - it may be that the new guy won't have to fight as many people under the surface that loved JH. Another off season and JH's love will be gone even with most of those folks.
January 8th, 2021 at 9:06 PM ^
So now we have only one of these awful posts. Zero would be better than one, however. One more new post and the excellent post that answers the OP's inartful questions will be pushed off the main page.
Moms?
Rob F?
January 8th, 2021 at 9:14 PM ^
thirty pieces of silver
January 8th, 2021 at 9:19 PM ^
I think 12 mil plus assistant coaches so 13-14 mil buyout yesterday compared to a 4 mil buyout today.
January 8th, 2021 at 11:37 PM ^
Thanks Fezz. Day drinking is a hell of a mofo. And im on the westcoast even worse. Lol
January 9th, 2021 at 6:20 AM ^
Harbaugh still has a higher Win rate than Bo. So is Bo a loser piece of trash now too in your eyes?
January 9th, 2021 at 9:09 AM ^
Every single player Bo coached, won at least one Big Ten title. It's about winning the title. And since the new title game format, we haven't been even in the game. Win record is a distant third.
January 9th, 2021 at 9:57 AM ^
Jim Harbaugh has a win% of 68% in B1G games Bo’s was 72% with 13 B1G titles. What was your argument again about win %?
4 times in 21 years Bo lost more than 1 B1G game. Jim has lost more than 1 game in 5 out of 6 seasons.
GTFO with your win% argument.
January 9th, 2021 at 10:34 AM ^
Probably more than a million.