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"Swinney’s contract also includes a buyout enhancement if he leaves to become the head coach at Alabama. His buyout is $4 million through Dec. 31, 2020; $3 million in 2021-2022; $2 million in 2023-2025; and $1 million in 2026-2027.
If Swinney leaves for Alabama, the buyout jumps to $6 million through Dec. 31, 2020; $4.5 million in 2021-2022; $3 million in 2023-2025; and $1.5 million in 2026-2027."
Contract - Average 9.3mm a year for 10 years ($93mm total)
Personally, I think this is crazy because he would be nuts to leave Clemson where he literally will have the stadium named after him and be the most popular person in the state of South Carolina to go to Alabama and follow Saban plus live in the shadow of Bear. That is some heavy shit man.
I don't think Dabo is worth this and I'll explain why:
1. Saban is worth the money because Alabama is aggressively expanding it's enrollment and want to grow to about 60K and his 9.4mm a year is driving up applications and quality of applications like crazy. Massive return on investment and worth every cent.
2. Clemson is in a category of selective school with an enrollment of 19K and not really looking to aggressively expand that enrollment. Granted Dabo is driving donations up and that is the counter argument but the fact is there is a limit to how much he can do that with a reduced base.
3. The ACC payouts are less:
Alabama - 43mm
Clemson - 30mm
So Dabo is going to take about 1/3 of all the money the ACC pays to the individual member teams and that doesn't include his assistants (Venables makes 2mm alone). I think you could have shaved a million, cut the contract to 5 years and he wasn't going to leave. AD's are idiots.
If Swinney leaves for Alabama, the buyout jumps to $6 million through Dec. 31, 2020; $4.5 million in 2021-2022; $3 million in 2023-2025; and $1.5 million in 2026-2027."
Contract - Average 9.3mm a year for 10 years ($93mm total)
Personally, I think this is crazy because he would be nuts to leave Clemson where he literally will have the stadium named after him and be the most popular person in the state of South Carolina to go to Alabama and follow Saban plus live in the shadow of Bear. That is some heavy shit man.
I don't think Dabo is worth this and I'll explain why:
1. Saban is worth the money because Alabama is aggressively expanding it's enrollment and want to grow to about 60K and his 9.4mm a year is driving up applications and quality of applications like crazy. Massive return on investment and worth every cent.
2. Clemson is in a category of selective school with an enrollment of 19K and not really looking to aggressively expand that enrollment. Granted Dabo is driving donations up and that is the counter argument but the fact is there is a limit to how much he can do that with a reduced base.
3. The ACC payouts are less:
Alabama - 43mm
Clemson - 30mm
So Dabo is going to take about 1/3 of all the money the ACC pays to the individual member teams and that doesn't include his assistants (Venables makes 2mm alone). I think you could have shaved a million, cut the contract to 5 years and he wasn't going to leave. AD's are idiots.