As one of the most anticipated college football seasons creeps around the corner, so too does a most unusual coaching hiring cycle. We are a couple months or, perhaps, a few weeks away from the last “silly season,” as it’s known, before college athletics moves into a revenue-sharing model with athletes.
The question looms: Will revenue sharing impact firing decisions and future coaching contracts?
In the last three hiring cycles, colleges agreed to pay out nearly $300 million to fired head coaches, setting a record last year with $132 million in buyout cash — more than half of that going to one man, Jimbo Fisher ($76 million).