Matt Rhule fired
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Coaching in the NFL is much different than coaching College Football. Much different skill sets and it’s far from a given that success in one guarantees success in the other. Ruhle has proven to be a heck of a college coach and I suspect he will be a hot commodity for many top college football programs. Nebraska would be wise to pursue him but he might have even bigger programs come calling. I could see Oklahoma pulling the rip cord on Venables based on how things are going.
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Better there than Wisconsin. Wherever he goes, money won’t be a concern:
The Carolina Panthers are on the hook for a hefty buyout figure following Monday's firing of head coach Matt Rhule in the middle of his third season. With four years left on his long-term seven-year contract, the Panthers owe Rhule more than $40 million, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
But his buyout will be reduced if he gets another job right away, correct? Isn’t that way some coaches work as “analysts” for a year or two?
The reason some ex-coachs work as analysts is because they don't have offers to coach. It has nothing to do with the buy-out. These guys want to coach and compete. The money is the same and therefore irelevant.
The rule is that most college head coaches struggle in the NFL. Pete Carroll is the only one who immediately comes to mind that succeeded at both.
So technically he’s the Rhule and not the exception.
Pete was basically running a pro team in college.
I did some reading up on structures of contracts and how buyouts work, because I was very curious if coaches were effectively incentivized to not work. Short answer: it's complicated and they're not all the same. In some contracts there might be an obligation on the coach to search for a new job appropriate to skill level "in good faith" (so you can't coach your nephew's pee wee league and collect full salary off the team that fired you). New salary/contract can reduce the obligation of the previous employer to pay out terms of the buyout, but not always that cut-and-dry. In other cases buyout terms can be re-negotiated to the satisfaction of both sides to enable each party to move on (like, maybe coach agrees to $5M if last employer doesn't hassle him about coaching nephew's pee wee league). Safe to say that no assumptions should be made about a buyout, and the headline numbers are often very misleading.
