You didn’t know the Pegulas? They own the bills , sabres, minor league organizations and professional lacrosse teams.If the Pegulas are involved in the buyout, I’d argue the opposite. I hadn’t heard of them so I looked up a few articles. Their donations helped the Penn state hockey team go from club level to frozen four in a little over a decade. All speculation at this point but if they helped cover the buyout, I would say the athletic department is in good shape there
Penn State Frozen Four Run Paved by $100M Pegula Donation
Penn State’s men’s hockey team has reached its first Frozen Four with help from Buffalo Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula.www.sportico.com
OT: Franklin Canned!!!
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The bills would be the only ones that would register for me and I’ve not heard of them, no.
My Bad on AD, read what you stated, went and looked for dirt but could only find good things being said about Kraft .
Feel the coach another Kraft hired at New England won't be in the running but possibly the current Cornhusker HC might be on the short list since Pat Kraft hired him as Temple's HC and he did a good enough job there to get poached by Baylor then after a failed NFL gig came back to the college game and has turned Nebraska's football around and has their fanbase thinking of the Tom Osborn days
Highly doubt it. No way. They’ll go for a current HC. This isn’t a “learn on the job” opportunity.
True. Rutgers has so little money compared to Penn State that they will always be at a disadvantage.
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From article you linked:
"The revenue-sharing era, when top programs are paying well in excess of $20.5 million to their players, that’s an even more expensive hit. The new economics of the sport should make contracts of the length and security afforded to Franklin a thing of the past—if presidents and athletic directors have the spine to stand up for fiscal sanity."
Okay very popular name in the sports, business, energy world. The name gets tossed around here all the time. Especially when referencing the desire for Rutgers to start a d1 hockey program. Plus daughter is a world class tennis player.
I’ve said it here before..too much OPM (other people’s money)…no one runs things like it’s their own money on the line…if it goes to hell, not my problem I’m long gone
Amazing when you see it broken down like this.
So why keep trying to play big time football when you don't have big time $$$$. That may be something will have to consider if the next 3-4 years.
That would explain it, hockey and tennis are nowhere near my radar
Unbelievable use of money, at a state university no less. Imagine the smell if that happened here
Don’t have to worry about that happening here. But if anything like that happened here there would be rioting in the streets. **** I still remember the girl sitting at center court of the RAC protesting something.
The 74 part series about it from nj.com would clearly win award after award
And rightfully so, the vast amounts of money that get thrown around for this stuff is absurd.
He's too busy running his short term rentals:
This plus Allar is done for the year with leg injury. I am now officially calling our game with PSU a toss up!!!
Greg's paid 6.5 million and coaches games and preps players like he's paid a million but its the cheap fans that is the reason he can't beat many teams with a pulse with even average consistency. ( that was a build on your post not a reply to u)
Why ? He gets paid millions here without any expectations. At PSU he’d be fired 3 years before his current contract here ends, not even counting the extension he’s going to get to 2035. His pay at RU is essentially a gift.
Seems like Rhule (PSU) would have to pay 5M to buy him out of his Nebraska deal….which isn’t a big hurdle considering lol.
They just hired Knowles at 3M/yr for 3 years too. Kotelnicki is owed 2M/yr for 2 more years as well. So that’s probably another 10M for the 2 coordinators less mitigations from future employment.
Wonder if they might not look at another OSU DC but this time for HC. Matt Patricia has done wonders for the OSU defense this year and has been a HC before, albeit in the NFL.
They just hired Knowles at 3M/yr for 3 years too. Kotelnicki is owed 2M/yr for 2 more years as well. So that’s probably another 10M for the 2 coordinators less mitigations from future employment.
Wonder if they might not look at another OSU DC but this time for HC. Matt Patricia has done wonders for the OSU defense this year and has been a HC before, albeit in the NFL.
Indiana fans might have said the same a few years ago.
But they found the right man for the job after years of disappointment with only a couple of nice years to keep them going..
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This was the peak of gluttony; for years in the late 2010s and into the 2020s, agents regularly fleeced athletic directors with preposterous long-term deals with outrageous amounts of guaranteed money.
Five years ago, when sports shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic and everyone on every college campus was panicking about revenue generation and expenditures, my colleague Chris Vannini and I spoke to several athletic directors and even some coaching agents who hoped that the financial crisis would lead to a recalibration of coaching contracts — and schools’ willingness to pay massive buyouts. Some theorized that contracts could be structured smarter from the schools’ perspective, with smaller base pay and incentives to ensure that big payments came with actual on-field success. Or, perhaps in the transfer portal era, coaches could simply have shorter contracts; long-term deals have long been used for recruiting, to show that the head coach would be there for the duration of a recruit’s time on campus. That’s not necessary in an era of player transience.
Not really. The uniforms are much flashier than he is. Even a PSU-dressed mannequin would see value in returning kicks and punts.
Shelby - Cheese is a big fan and has very similar views as Shelby on the program. I wasn't serious, but posted it because there are definitely Schiano fan-boys who think this way.
I talked to Barry Alvarez and he had a lot of great things to say about a guy named Chris A. Gotta think he's in the running too.
Because it was his dream job. And in an alternative universe, there's a Greg Schiano that stayed with Ohio State in 2019, spent an additional six years there, and is currently being begged to take the Penn State job.
Surprised to see this in print: "Some theorized that contracts could be structured smarter from the schools’ perspective, with smaller base pay and incentives to ensure that big payments came with actual on-field success."
Talk is cheap, and action is difficult. Any coach with any confidence in their abilities should be willing to agree to a base of $4M (or $5M), and for each win over 6, an additional $1M- that would provide $10-11 million for 12 wins, and incentives could be built in for additional guaranteed years.
Ha. Shelby didn’t pick up on that. No harm done. No need for granting Shelby a do-over like Grifter Greg gave Illinois.
Got it. Yes it could only be in an alternate universe because in this one he’s a losing football coach.
So was Chris Ash, but he was the defensive coordinator on winning Ohio State teams.
people thinking 'Greg is in any discussion here is just laughable