SMU is paying a heavy price for ....

[mr. pony]

... not firing JJ when he quit to go to ASU.

[Ponymon]

Sure am glad we renewed his contract for ANOTHER 4 years. Guarantees bottom 10 status for most of the remainder of the decade!

[gostangs]

would have been a 4 year buy out. Did you have an extra 10 million to help that out?

[Nacho]

At least he was recruiting for asu.

[gostangs]

we have a no cost fire clause after this year.

[RebStang]

would have been a 4 year buy out. Did you have an extra 10 million to help that out?

Wasn't there evidence that he had verbally accepted the job and had even made some recruiting calls for them? That's justification for termination for cause - no buyout would have been owed.

[ponyscott]

Sure am glad we renewed his contract for ANOTHER 4 years. Guarantees bottom 10 status for most of the remainder of the decade!

Dude get a clue...its was redone for a reason. He is out for $1 million by years end...the last contract was way too expensive. June has to perform this year...if not, he is out. Simple.

[ponyscott]

Nm

[gostangs]

Reb - you are wrong. It was considered. We had no legal standing to dismiss without a payment

[RebStang]

Reb - you are wrong. It was considered. We had no legal standing to dismiss without a payment

So, he's free to pick up the phone and recruit for another school as long as they haven't paid him? That's some terrible contract writing if that isn't grounds for immediate termination with no buyout.

I work in sales and I can guarantee you that if I call one of my potential customers and tell them that I think they should do business with a competing company, I'm not going to have a job if my boss finds out about it.

[Ponymon]

We, obviously, have IDIOTS writing our Head Coach contracts! Maybe the school should sue the lawyers who advised on the contract?

[deepellumfrog]

Reb - you are wrong. It was considered. We had no legal standing to dismiss without a payment

So, he's free to pick up the phone and recruit for another school as long as they haven't paid him? That's some terrible contract writing if that isn't grounds for immediate termination with no buyout.

I work in sales and I can guarantee you that if I call one of my potential customers and tell them that I think they should do business with a competing company, I'm not going to have a job if my boss finds out about it.

Do you have a guaranteed employment contract?

[Rebel10]

... not firing JJ when he quit to go to ASU.

I don't think he ever officially quit but it does seem that SMU probably should have made the change then.