His Buyout is currently 6 mil and he isn't going anywhere with a buyout that large... so we are stuck together at the hip with him for the forseeable future. We have a 150 mil campaign going on and a recruiting season that is just around the corner that has the potential to be as good or better than all of the rest since Nutt has been here.(we can all agree that it isn't talent that has suffered here) The new ESPN television contract will be renegotiated when ATM comes in the spring and there will another 10-12 mill per school added to the SEC coffers.
With that all said and stated, the 150 Mill campaign is the 800 lb gorilla in the room and the reason that I personally think nothing will be done to jeopardize the success there...The New ESPN contract money (coming in the spring) should easily pay any buyout that is needed and also to pay anyone we want as a new HC if one is necessary
say this because changing horses right now could be dangerous to the recruiting year and campaign for excellence and nobody really wants Boone to make any decisons regarding who we get for the future HC hires) Waiting and watching and gearing up to make that next hire might be in order...the next hire has got to be a HOME RUN amongst all REBELS everywhere of all age brackets. Nothing else will do if our 150 mil campaign is going to be successful. To prove my point just wait and see how many asses are in the seats this weekend in Vaught for the Georgia game. I bet it will be a dismal turnout. Waiting and making Nutt make the hard choices and sitting on him a la Cutcliffe might make him leave of his own accord without a buyout being a problem. I guarantee you before Jan 1 that there will be a sister SEC school that will go and find and pay a coach somewhere 6 mill a year... probably Georgia. That will be the going rate for HC I expect. The New ESPN contract that is going to be renegotiated will probably be an extra 1-12 mill when aTm enters the picture in the spring. Money to hire anyone (Even the EVIL Saban) in the country if spent properly on athletics.
With all of the soul searching I have done over the last few sleepless hours I think maybe waiting and watching and sitting back and making Nutt feel his own hot seat might be just what the doctor ordered. All the while collecting names and making lists and judging interests and biding our time until we can find the right hire...for the right money...to satisfy everyone that is going to help with the 150 mill campaign and not alienate anyone... it is going to take everyone on board to realize success in that area and it is also going to make us competitive (hopefully) the longest and probably more so than any coaching hire we could ever make anyway. The way I see it... we have one pitch coming and it is IMPERATIVE we hit a home run or suffer a Huge setback. It has to be the right pitch we swing at and Boone is the Pitcher (God Help us) and any success we have for the next 20 years is on the line.
I ain't one for making hasty decisions that could be harmful just because I am mad at the moment. Lets let things play out... I for one think time is on our side...at least for the moment... we got plenty of football to be played out before we can hire anyone right now anyway. Boone has got to be run off first anyway. Maybe both of em (Boone and Nutt) will gun each other down worrying about what needs to be done next. I say we wait and watch.
