Earlier this week one of the worst kept secrets in all college football was proven right when Urban Meyer was announced as the new head football coach at Ohio State. When i heard this announcement and the fact the contract is a 6 year $24 Million with an additional $2.4 Million in bonuses I thought to myself, When we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat. I also began thinking about contracts in sports themselves. Time and time again we hear of a coach who is under contract just up and leaving a school or program to go get a different coaching position elsewhere. Urban has done this at least 3 time that I know of and many other coaches have done the same. The unfair and otherwise dishonest thing about it is when these coaches go into someones home and tells these 17 or 18 year olds that if they will commit 4 or more years of there life to that school that said coach will be there to help them along this new adventure in life. They also tell the kids mom and dad that they should fear not that there child will be taken care of and the coach will be there every step of the way. But because money has gotten so big in college sports now it seems to only take a sniff of a big pay check to make some of these coaches go back on every word they just said to these kids and parents, and the sad part is the atheletes are expected to stay at these schools whether they like it or not or transfer and face a penalty of losing eligibility but no such penalty on these coaches. Now I understand that some instinces are different, say if a coach is fired or leaves for family reason, but in my eyes, in most cases these coaches should be held to the contracts that they have signed and should not be let out of them so easy until the contract is fulfilled. I have the utmost respect for the coaches that do the right thing and stay with there programs through thick and thin. But coaches like Lavell Edwards, Bronco Mendenhall, Ron McBride, Kyle Whitttingham and others like them are becoming a rare exception to the rule and I would just like to see more coaches like them out there and the Urban Meyers of the world just go away. So is a Contract worth anything these days? I guess it depends on who you ask!
i agree they should treat these coaches the same they do players. People say that meyer has a excuse cause of his health is why he left florida and thats fine but to turn around not even a year later and jump to Ohio St just doesn't seem right i hope future students look at his history before they jump in with him.
ReplyDeleteHe only had health issues because he didn't know how he was gonna live without his beloved Tebow! What a joke of a coach, i remember when he told Utah that he was here for good and then not too much longer after that he's gone to Florida. Also he tells fans that he hasn't been contacted by Ohio State then less than a week later he is the head coach. You can't trust this guy at all. He is simply trrible.
ReplyDeleteI think that they should make the coach financially responsible. If a school fires a coach before his contract is left the school is obligated to either buy out the contract or pay the coach for the additional years left on the said contract. I haven't heard of coaches paying back their remaining years of their contracts. Maybe it's in their contract that they can leave without penalty or maybe i'm wrong or maybe the schools hiring them are buying out their contracts. If this is the case then maybe they should make the coach pay the buyout financially. if you hit these coaches where it counts in the pocketbook they would be less inclined to leave.
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