IvanBear said:
bear2be2 said:
IvanBear said:
Bears2Cane said:
IvanBear said:
Bears2Cane said:
Y'all are so desperate to hate on Mack that you've got to cite to CSD ~possibly~ leaving for one of the top two or three most coveted jobs in the country. If Drew leaves for UK it has very little to do with Mack/Baylor and everything to do with UK being UK.
And the whole we didn't have a buyout on our national champion winning coach that keeps the Kentucky's of the world away part.
If Kentucky had to pay 15-20 million to get Drew, then yeah, Mack could avoid real criticism, but we're not by all accounts.
You and I both know that 15-20 million wouldn't stop Kentucky from getting their guy.
It sure sounds like it stopped them from going after Nate Oats. $33 million stopped them from dumping Cal.
Either way that's the level of buyout that should be on Drew, it's not there and that's on our AD who's signed multiple contracts with Drew at this point.
You can only sign someone to a contract they agree to, and Mack has no leverage in a negotiation with Drew. If Drew wants a small buyout, he gets a small buyout. Period.
That is exactly how a negotiation would go with someone bad at their job.
Someone bad at their job would try to play hardball with a highly successful, highly sought after coach and potentially piss him off unnecessarily.
The fact that we've kept poachers at bay for 21 years with a heretofore unknown buyout on Drew's contract proves the point everyone here is making. Losing Drew to Kentucky (if we do) will have far more to do with Kentucky than Baylor.
There are plenty of valid reasons to criticize Rhoades, if that's your desire. This isn't one of them.