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1. Hire younger coaches who will stay at Miami longer
2. Sign coaches to 15 or 20 year contracts when they are first hired. You may believe this is insane but here are the terms of the contract
a. If they are fired Miami only has to pay them for the next 2 or 3 years, not the whole period remaining on their contract.
b. Here is the even more important part. If they decide to leave Miami before the contract is up they can't have an NCAA or NFL job with another team. Maybe ban them from announcing too. Essentially they aren't allowed to leave Miami unless we fire them.
3. If they have a losing season their first year (ala Shannon) fire them. If they go 6-6 their first year, (ala Golden), a bit borderline on whether to fire them.
4. If they're overall win % isn't at least .667 after 2 years, fire them. This means that a coach who was 7-6 in year 1 has to go 11-2 in year 2, somebody who was 8-5 in year 1 has to go 10-3, 9-4 in year 1 has to go 9-4 in year 2, etc.
5. In the more borderline cases where a coach is 18-8 after 2 years, they get year 3 to get to double digit wins. If that's not achieved, fire them.
Summary: Some people will complain that the slavelike terms of the contract will prevent some coaches from coming here. This may be true. However, it also allows us to retain coaches forever if they do well.
I'm sure I'll also get some complaints about coaches needing more time. Somebody may point out a rare case such as John McKay who was 8-11-1 in his first 2 years at USC . However, for every McKay we may end up firing, there are about 20 Randy Shannons or Al Goldens who won't get 3 extra years they don't deserve to ruin the program.
If we can keep good coaches for 15 or 20 years and fire bad coaches after 1 or 2 years, we need to only get around 10% of our hires right to spend as much time under good coaches as bad coaches.
And yes if Richt isn't doing well after 2 years fire him.
2. Sign coaches to 15 or 20 year contracts when they are first hired. You may believe this is insane but here are the terms of the contract
a. If they are fired Miami only has to pay them for the next 2 or 3 years, not the whole period remaining on their contract.
b. Here is the even more important part. If they decide to leave Miami before the contract is up they can't have an NCAA or NFL job with another team. Maybe ban them from announcing too. Essentially they aren't allowed to leave Miami unless we fire them.
3. If they have a losing season their first year (ala Shannon) fire them. If they go 6-6 their first year, (ala Golden), a bit borderline on whether to fire them.
4. If they're overall win % isn't at least .667 after 2 years, fire them. This means that a coach who was 7-6 in year 1 has to go 11-2 in year 2, somebody who was 8-5 in year 1 has to go 10-3, 9-4 in year 1 has to go 9-4 in year 2, etc.
5. In the more borderline cases where a coach is 18-8 after 2 years, they get year 3 to get to double digit wins. If that's not achieved, fire them.
Summary: Some people will complain that the slavelike terms of the contract will prevent some coaches from coming here. This may be true. However, it also allows us to retain coaches forever if they do well.
I'm sure I'll also get some complaints about coaches needing more time. Somebody may point out a rare case such as John McKay who was 8-11-1 in his first 2 years at USC . However, for every McKay we may end up firing, there are about 20 Randy Shannons or Al Goldens who won't get 3 extra years they don't deserve to ruin the program.
If we can keep good coaches for 15 or 20 years and fire bad coaches after 1 or 2 years, we need to only get around 10% of our hires right to spend as much time under good coaches as bad coaches.
And yes if Richt isn't doing well after 2 years fire him.
