2025 NCAA Football Thread

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Quitting is one thing, but we're talking about other teams being able to hire active coaches to their teams mid-season. Why are teams allowed to interview current coaches for lateral moves mid-season anyway? It's odd. And results in people who routinely do it - like Kiffin - to be widely reviled for it, as we're seeing.

Well he doesn't consider it lateral I guess.

The coaches have all the power here. If a school tried to get a non-compete clause, they'd never be able to hire the coach they really want. Kiffin would certainly never have agreed to something like that at Ole Miss.

Yes Kiffin is reviled but if he wins they will love him in BTR. Doesn't strike me as a guy that cares a lot about honor and legacy. Well other than he wants to be known as a guy who won a natty.

He almost accepted the Auburn job a few years ago. He campaigned for the Alabama job. And rumor has it he told his assistants he was going to Florida earlier this year until a better job came along.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Non-compete clause would surely not be legal. Buyout money with offsets is a quasi non-compete clause because you won't be able to collect it all unless you stay out of coaching. I also doubt teams would go European soccer and start having release clauses in coaches contracts that would force another school to pay someone to take their coach, but it would be better hedge than a non-compete IMO.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

Well he doesn't consider it lateral I guess.



The coaches have all the power here. If a school tried to get a non-compete clause, they'd never be able to hire the coach they really want. Kiffin would certainly never have agreed to something like that at Ole Miss.



Yes Kiffin is reviled but if he wins they will love him in BTR. Doesn't strike me as a guy that cares a lot about honor and legacy. Well other than he wants to be known as a guy who won a natty.



He almost accepted the Auburn job a few years ago. He campaigned for the Alabama job. And rumor has it he told his assistants he was going to Florida earlier this year until a better job came along.

Oh agreed about Kiffin. This isn't a hill I'm going to die on, that's true how it would make it harder for schools to hire their true #1. Safe to say it just has a greasy feel to it, it's an odd quirk you don't see in the pros. You'd also think it'd be more damaging to a coach's reputation like Lane than it seems to be..

LSU fans just better not act shocked when it inevitably happens to them to...though I know they will.