re: The Coach Orgeron Vision/Plan

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Coach Orgeron knows his leverage and his strengths.

His leverage/strengths are his Louisiana/Cajun heritage, his coaching experiences (DT, HC, etc...), his relationship skills, his recruiting prowess, his strong motivational skillset, and the fact that his players love him. He also has the binder, which many make fun of, but which shows he has been preparing for this opportunity for a couple of decades, inclusive of his coaching under and with National Championship and Super Bowl champion coaches.

As such, Coach O knows that his way to succeed in his dream job is to take a decidedly CEO-style approach, and to obtain and empower great coordinators and position coaches, while he recruits, organizes, addresses the media as the LSU football figure head, and through practice and game day motivation and management.

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So essentially Orgeron is getting 3.5 Mil a year to be LSU's HC (Head Cheerleader) and Coonass Icon. I guess it could work, but I still think he's over paid for what he does. IMO his contract should have been heavy on the incentive side and next to nothing on the guarantee end.

This is what an unproven or failed HC contract should look like:
Term: 4 year contract( anything less would hurt recruiting)
Salary: 1 Mil per year (Unproven HC shouldn't get big time guaranteed money)
Incentives: 250K for power 5 non conference and SEC regular season win (2.5 Mil total)
1 Mil for SEC west champion
1.5 Mil for SEC Champion
100-750K for winning non play off bowl game depending on the bowl.
1.5 Mil for playoff win
2.5 Mil for National Champion

Win SEC west guarantee 30% increase in base salary with contract extension.
Win SEC 50% increase in base salary with contract extension.
Win natty and double base salary with a contract extension.

That could be a 9 million dollar bonus with a salary increase and a contract extension!