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re: So if IU is paying $11.2m-does the next LSU coach make $13m+. Is BK underpaid?
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:13 pm to Covingtontiger77
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:13 pm to Covingtontiger77
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So if IU is paying $11.2m-does the next LSU coach make $13m+
I kinda thought coaches' salaries would come down as more resources were allocated to NIL. That's what I get for thinkin
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Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:15 pm to TDsngumbo
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Not for an LSU head coach. A 9 win season should unlock 70% of the contract. A 10 win regular season should unlock 80% of the contract. Two 10 win regular seasons within 4 years or playoffs unlocks 100% of the contract. Two 8 win regular seasons in a row drops the coach into 60% of the contract and one 5 win regular season removes 100% of the buyout.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:15 pm to Covingtontiger77
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So if IU is paying $11.2m-does the next LSU coach make $13m+. Is BK underpaid?
No.
IU is just paying a premium for a coach to make sure they stay relevant. Cignetti is a good coach, but he only has one good win in his 2 years there. IU is jumping the gun here because they know he will be a hot commodity in a couple months.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:16 pm to Covingtontiger77
BK is way overpaid for his results
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:18 pm to Covingtontiger77
It's likely that the revenue boost a successful football team brings to the athletics department more than pays for Cignetti's raise.
This post was edited on 10/17/25 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:28 pm to Covingtontiger77
At this point, who would pay more than $10m/yr for Kelly? He got the existing -$100m contract based on expectations that he’d make playoffs and compete for NC’s.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:29 pm to TDsngumbo
Sounds great but no agent is going to allow a high profile head coach to sign that type of deal!
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:32 pm to Covingtontiger77
LSU’s next coach will be signed to a prove it deal or he should anyway.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:33 pm to Brlaf77
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Sounds great but no agent is going to allow a high profile head coach to sign that type of deal!
I get that, but our most successful coaches were not really all that high profile before being hired as the LSU HC.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:37 pm to Covingtontiger77
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[img]not worth the risk of being trapped in a 10 year deal you can’t get out of easily.
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And yet that’s exactly what Woody did
Did you exclude the condition of the statement, because it doesn't fit your narrative or did you simply not understand it?
The full statement with the condition in bold
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Unless you’re getting a really heavy hitter it’s probably not worth the risk of being trapped in a 10 year deal.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:38 pm to TexasTiger_08
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BK hasn't earned a raise.
BK hasn't earned his salary.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:39 pm to TDsngumbo
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Not for an LSU head coach. A 9 win season should unlock 70% of the contract. A 10 win regular season should unlock 80% of the contract. Two 10 win regular seasons within 4 years or playoffs unlocks 100% of the contract. Two 8 win regular seasons in a row drops the coach into 60% of the contract and one 5 win regular season removes 100% of the buyout.
There has to be some incentive and accountability.
Sounds great in theory, but the market is what it is. That type of contract structure means that your “70%” probably needs to be equal to Team B’s “100%” (assuming Team B is offering a fully guaranteed contract). Which means you’re just paying even more with the incentives.
Still, I really expected the coaching market to cool down at least a little bit under the new revenue sharing regime.
This Cignetti contract is nuts though. He has precisely 1 career win over a ranked FBS team (2 if you count Iowa who is now unranked) and they throw him an 8 year $93 million extension?
I realize he’s brought Indiana back to relevance but damn. It definitely makes me reconsider my thoughts about the future of coaching contracts.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:42 pm to Covingtontiger77
Here's the hard truth about all of this, it's 100% supply and demand and we as fans demand a lot. Not just LSU fans either but pretty much every fanbase of top programs in college football are not willing to accept not being good. Because of this demand to win football games, athletic departments, and more specifically athletic directors, are in an interesting position. AD's know they HAVE to win in football with their football hire because they know that bad football hires get AD's fired. They also know that nobody is going to want to hear excuses about them not being able to land a quality coach because of money or contract length issues. Look no further than the portal and think of how many times the answer from fans on a given player was "don't let him say no! Pay him double the market value, we have to have him!" We do pretty much the same thing with coaching hires. Can you imagine the melt around here if Brian Kelly wasn't the coach anymore and LSU lost out on every top candidate to places like Indiana because Indiana was willing to offer a big buyout and 8 years where you weren't? People would throw a fit.
With this pressure, or demand in this case, the leverage automatically belongs to the asset that has a promising enough resume to sell to the fanbase that he is a potential big winner. So here's the choice an AD has
1) Stick to your guns with a contract offer that gives the school more off ramps if things don't go well
2) Give the asset what he wants to get him
The complication with option #1, though, is that if you aren't willing to give him what he wants and the market dictates he can get is somewhere else, you're not getting that coach and will potentially get run out of town for "botching" the football hire.
Option two leaves you married to a guy you want gone assuming it doesn't work out. We, as fans, can pitch as many and as big a fits as we wants and throw out as many "just offer 5 year contracts!" all we want, but as long as the demand for wins is this high, premier coaches are that few & other schools are willing to pay that price for their man, these contracts ain't going anywhere.
With this pressure, or demand in this case, the leverage automatically belongs to the asset that has a promising enough resume to sell to the fanbase that he is a potential big winner. So here's the choice an AD has
1) Stick to your guns with a contract offer that gives the school more off ramps if things don't go well
2) Give the asset what he wants to get him
The complication with option #1, though, is that if you aren't willing to give him what he wants and the market dictates he can get is somewhere else, you're not getting that coach and will potentially get run out of town for "botching" the football hire.
Option two leaves you married to a guy you want gone assuming it doesn't work out. We, as fans, can pitch as many and as big a fits as we wants and throw out as many "just offer 5 year contracts!" all we want, but as long as the demand for wins is this high, premier coaches are that few & other schools are willing to pay that price for their man, these contracts ain't going anywhere.
This post was edited on 10/17/25 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 10/17/25 at 1:00 pm to The Pirate King
None of them are underpaid ... the real question is who is the most overpaid.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 2:10 pm to Covingtontiger77
They are all overpriced prima donnas
Posted on 10/17/25 at 2:18 pm to Covingtontiger77
If there’s a guy you want or want to keep, you’re going to have to give insane contracts. Because if whatever school don’t, another one will
Posted on 10/17/25 at 2:22 pm to Covingtontiger77
BK steals money everyday! He is way overpaid should get $5-6M we aren’t paying for wins he had a Grand Valley State!
This should be his last contract ever at LSU! If he wants to go give him a 1 way 1st class ticket and don’t let Woody hire the next FB Coach!
This should be his last contract ever at LSU! If he wants to go give him a 1 way 1st class ticket and don’t let Woody hire the next FB Coach!
Posted on 10/17/25 at 2:25 pm to 777Tiger
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even the faggie AD thinks it's ooc after the Jumbo payout debacle
Aggie AD's will is about to be tested with Sexton beginning to float out the Elko to Penn St balloons.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 2:34 pm to TDsngumbo
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A 9 win season should unlock 70% of the contract. A 10 win regular season should unlock 80% of the contract. Two 10 win regular seasons within 4 years or playoffs unlocks 100% of the contract. Two 8 win regular seasons in a row drops the coach into 60% of the contract and one 5 win regular season removes 100% of the buyout.
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