How shrewd is Greg Byrne?
The Athletic Director’s contract is set to expire the summer of 2022. So, when Alabama coaches’ contracts were set for revision and renewal this summer, he gave nearly everyone a raise and an extension -- but at the same time, the extensions or signings expire the year before or the year of his contract expiry.
Why does this matter? If Byrne is feeling the heat or he needs to make a hypothetical job-saving series of hires, the University will have a year’s worth of new data points to evaluate the personnel moves, or at the least, will have concrete evidence that he is making changes in his renewal year.