We’re in the wrong business (payout to former Arky OC Dan Enos)

His boss fired his ass

 

Is this kind of like UF does with buyout disbursements to 4 former coaches?

 

Enos pays kickbacks???

 

Peter Principle Pays!

 

But of course, you are wrong on all accounts. Just because a coach gets paid stupid money for sucking doesn't mean schools should start throwing money at students. The answer is to stop throwing money at coaches who fail.

But for whatever reason, the universities keep doing it; I truly do not know how college coaches got such leverage. They should be incentivized to succeed, not fail. If they fail, they lose.

 

He was pretty solid in 2015-16 at Arkansas the first time too, literally the only reason Pittman hired him because they worked together then.

Sometimes I think having an experienced coach can go against you because they hire people they worked with who were good 10 years ago and don’t pay enough attention to realize they suck now.

 

Sure they can. A school would get more bang for their buck paying money to a star QB or star WR than to some schlub journeyman assistant coach. Folks are so used to old model of coaches being paid gobs of money to suck at their job that they hardly bat an eye at stories like this.

 

I would have contributed!!

 

They are a hot commodity, so many jobs to fill and so few that can be successfull. There are probably more decent coaches though than there are schools that can afford a talented enough roster to compete as well as they are expected to. Many are fired for performing exactly as they should considering the talent they are given.

 

It definitely requires good coaching and organization to develop talent but the defensive class we have coming in is what it takes for them to be successful. No coach can win without talent.

 

Who the heck agrees to a contract like that for an Asst. coach?? I would rather have an unproven up and comer than paying millions for a washed up retread.

 

Maybe. There was terrible body language from their players against MSU...particularly the QB. His line can't block for him and it looked like he had given up.

 

Hmmmm...sounds a lot like our last lost decade (along with some not-so-stellar coaching). Lesson learned hopefully?

 

I’m not going to make fun of them too much, it’s a situation that appears all too familiar to Gator fans. I think this one is much like the last regime in Gainesville in that it’s too little, too late to save Pittman’s job. Arky is an all-out dumpster fire this year, far worse off than I thought they would be.

 

After taxes... it's only a little more than half that

 

Anagram for Dan Enos:

So An End

 

The entertainment business overpays in every facet. It’s absurd the ridiculous amounts of money people get paid to do nothing but entertain us

 

Can’t make a silk purse out of alligator hide.

 

You can coach ‘em up and scheme all you want, but unless you got the hogs, it’s not gonna do much. Firing an OC halfway thru his first season sounds like scapegoating to me.

 

Reminds me of the quote from Chris Rock to Shaq about him being “rich”: “Shaq is rich, the guy writing his check is wealthy.” While the contracts seem absurd, somebody is obviously making enough to pay the ‘talent’ those dollars and still make billions. NFL, college, movies, music - the amount made by entertainers seems ludicrous but then you look at the revenue generated by that talent and those behind it who are clearly doing even better than said talent and are clearly not going bankrupt.

Like you, it seems absurd to me, but I am older and do not play in the social media monetization field. Not sure what is going on in entertainment (not my field) but it seems (for now?) that there is enough money to pay crappy coaches not to coach and unproven high school kids.Of course, those paying such sums are not forced to do so at gunpoint so who is at fault (if there is fault)- the entertainer or the employer (who can chose to hire someone else)?