📡 Watch Dabo Swinney explain ‘Alabama buyout’ in contract extension - AL.com

[planomateo]

The numbers suggest otherwise in my opinion. If Alabama wants him, they'll get him.

Enhancement equals in addition to. So if he leaves Clemson for Alabama, the buyout would be both numbers.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Ugh, I just really hope we don't offer him.

He's just too goofy.

 

[planomateo]

Hard to argue with his results

 

[rammerjammer]

i think when Coach Saban retires, they should actually let him pick. or at least let him have a say in the matter. or at the VERY least give them a top 3 of who he'd want to follow him.

When he left LSU, you do know who he recommended to take his place, right? Houston Dale Nutt

 

[ElephantStomp]

I hope we go after Dabo when CNS decides to retire. “Goofy” or not the dude is good at his job.

 

[RollllTide!]

IMO we all think too much about the future and not enough about the present. We have the best money could buy and we need to ride that horse till the cows come home or the wheels fall off. Dabo is a great BAMA alum but he has some baggage with his time with us whether it was his fault or not. By the time Saban retires there will be a completely different set of options.

I say long live the Saban era. I heard he just had the number one drafted group for 2019. RolllllTide!

 

[sean]

When he left LSU, you do know who he recommended to take his place, right? Houston Dale Nutt

well i guess it's a good thing that people don't change.




who knows what kind of coach Houston Nutt would've been with that kind of talent...? he certainly didn't have it at arkansas or ole miss. i mean he had talent, but not the same as he would've had at lsu. hell, he may have won the conference a couple times. you just never know.

 

[Sid Youngleman]

Seems they were convinced there was/is a real possibility that he would leave for bama. If not why bother with the extra buy out if he left for bama.

I suspect it's something more subtle and more bush-league than that. For Clemson to insert that clause into Dabo's contract is to proclaim before the world that Alabama . . . Alabama! . . . covets their coach and regards him as another Nick Saban. At bottom, it's a lingering symptom of a chronic inferiority complex.

 

[mando]

I suspect it's something more subtle and more bush-league than that. For Clemson to insert that clause into Dabo's contract is to proclaim before the world that Alabama . . . Alabama! . . . covets their coach and regards him as another Nick Saban. At bottom, it's a lingering symptom of a chronic inferiority complex.

Yeah after I posted that I thought well there are other reasons. One I thought about was they could be sending a message to their fan base and recruits that Dabo is NOT going to Bama so stop toying with that thought. Your points may be other selling points that I had not thought about. Either way their marketing machine will milk it for all its worth.

 

[sean]

it will probably be a thing that will start to be put into other coaches contracts.

 

[pop2]

We wouldn't need him until 2025 or 2026 and I don't think an extra $1MM or $500M would stop anything if we wanted him.

 

[utstnx]

The buyout is not restrictive in any way whatsoever. Whats an extra 2/3 mil??? If Bama really wanted Dabo and Dabo really wanted to come....whats 2/3 mil to Bama? That's almost a joke. To me this is totally gonna backfire on Clemson and is worse than No Bama buyout. It makes them look so scared of Alabama, It tells Clemson recruits that Clemson is worried Dabo will go to Bama, and it helps Bama because they can say Look...Come to Bama...you get Nick Saban and if he retires "everyone...even Clemson knows.....Dabo is next at Bama."

2 or 3 mil on a 100 mil contract??? Is Jimmy Sexton negotiating for Dabo?

 

[PurlJam]

I dunno, Dabo may be around 65 by then.

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[TideatMileHigh]

I suspect it's something more subtle and more bush-league than that. For Clemson to insert that clause into Dabo's contract is to proclaim before the world that Alabama . . . Alabama! . . . covets their coach and regards him as another Nick Saban. At bottom, it's a lingering symptom of a chronic inferiority complex.

Which is exactly what Clemson is. A historically second rate school that is on par with the ACC's version of Auburn. A quick analysis of Clemson reveals this is to be a very self evident truth. Their mascot looks like a serial killer pedo that escaped from a mental asylum and their silly little graveyard is a symbolic reflection of their inferiority complex to which you alluded to.

Unfortunately, they wont be going away anytime soon unless they get hit with a scandal. Dabo is a great coach, but he is too goofy to run an NFL franchise, and I do not see him doing a lateral move anytime soon. It benefits Clemson as well, that the only schools capable of challenging Clemson- being FSU and Miami- both seem to be stagnant.

 

[Bama News]

Watch Dabo Swinney explain ‘Alabama buyout’ in contract extension

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney recently agreed to a 10-year extension, which calls for an enhanced buyout if he leaves for Alabama.

www.al.com

Don’t harp on the numbers of the contract but the message.

That was the point Clemson coach Dabo Swinney made when he was asked about his contract extension’s enhanced buyout, which calls for a bigger buyout if he leaves for Alabama.

Last month, Swinney agreed to a new 10-year, $93-million contract at Clemson.

Swinney, a Pelham native and Alabama graduate, is now the highest-paid coach in college football at an average of $9.3 million per year through the 2028 season. Alabama’s Nick Saban is next at an average of $9.25 million per year.

“Well, that came from the school and their proposal and I didn’t have a problem with it,” Swinney said of the “Alabama buyout” during a recent appearance at the Florence Prowl & Growl. “This contract was all about a mutual commitment to each other — you know, Clemson and myself. And so, I didn’t have any issues with it at all. Just honored to be able to be the coach here, and it’s been a great decade, and, hopefully, we can have another decade and maybe another decade after that. We’ll see. It’s a blessing. Just thankful it all came together. … We’re excited to be moving forward.”

Buyout numbers:

Through 2020

$4 million

$6 million for Alabama

Through 2022

$3 million

$4.5 million for Alabama

Through 2025

$2 million

$3 million for Alabama

Through 2027

$1 million

$1.5 million for Alabama

While the money is the attention-grabber, Swinney said the 10 years was more the message.

“Just trying to be a good steward of all the blessings that God has given me,” Swinney said. “Hopefully, we can be here a long time. That was what everyone wanted the message to be through this contract. Not the numbers or anything like that. The market is what it is. … At the end of the day, the term was more the message and the type of commitment I wanted to make, and the school wanted to make.”

 

['65 Cobra]

IMHO, while I respect Dabo's results, I do believe that his pathway in recent years (which culminated in two natties) was in a VERY significant way due to the fact that the ACC is a complete joke. His teams are always fresh when they get to the playoffs. I also believe that had they been forced to play OK in the first round last year, they would have lost in that round - at best they would have lost to us in the final.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

 

[bama alum]

Yep, Clemson's done.