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Post by vu72 on Mar 30, 2006 12:43:10 GMT -5
The other day it was announced that Valpo had signed Stacy Adams to a new four year contract.
My question is: In today's world where coaches break contracts on a regular basis, generally because of much more lucrative offers from big schools, what is the value of a contract from Valpo's perspective? Under what situations might we bring a suit to enforce a contract?
Finally, some AD's have added language to coaches contracts that if they jump to a different (presumably larger) school that that school must agree to play a couple of games at the school with the broken contract.
Have you ever considered such language for our coaches?
Thank you for your time and consideration.
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Post by rlh on Apr 20, 2006 0:10:39 GMT -5
Somehow I screwed up and erased the original post by Mark Labarbera. Fortunately, I was able to backspace and copy and paste it, so below is his answer as it was written. I'll do better in the future....rlh
"I'm sorry that it has taken a few weeks to get going with this portion of the Board. It is my intention to take one question a month. Please feel free to comment on my answer. In a week or so I will wrap things up with a few final thoughts.
Coaches contracts. One of the primary reasons for coaches contracts at all levels is to send a clear message to recruits that there will be consistency with the coaching staff. It is a common occurance for opposing schools to suggest that a head coach may be leaving for any number of reasons. It is also a way for the AD to let all of the University's boosters know that they support that coach and what they are doing with the program.
Schools in the I-A football conferences will often put buy-out clauses in the contracts of their football and basketball coaches. In my expereince these are usally cash payments not scheduling arangements, but scheduling arrangements are certainly something that could be incluuded.
It is difficult for mid-major schools to include buy-out clauses. If it is the goal of a mid-major to hire a young up-and-coming coach it usually difficult to get them to agree to something that may hinder their ability to move to that top level. Also, if a mid-major were to be too agressive in enforcing a contract of a coach looking to move up to a bigger program it could have a negative effect on trying to hire the next coach. Once again someone who is good and also looking for the opportunity to coach at the next level will be leary of being put in a situation where this made more difficult.
Finding a coach that can create a quality program capable of winning at the D-I level is a tricky process. A mid-major school is fortunate indeed if it can find one who's sole motivation is not money. A mid-major school can never compete with schools in the power conferences on money terms alone. I know of one situation where a school wrote a check for $1 million to buy out a coach's contract with their former school. "
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Post by ml on Apr 20, 2006 21:43:50 GMT -5
It would be fine with me to leave all of the questions showing. I was feeling badly that I hadn't been on to answer any of the questions so I wanted to get the process moving
I was hoping that his would promote some positive dialog not create it's own set of arguments. I am happy to address other issues if it is going to be constructive.
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