1.  Don NOT under any circumstances hire a coach who's previous job was head coach at a power conference school.  No matter what he tells you, no matter the oral promises, he will leave at the first opportunity presented him by another power conference school.

2. While I understand that the Ohio University basketball head coaching position is not a "destination" job, the contract for our next head coach should be written in such a way that it is extremely disadvantageous for him to consider leaving before completion of his 4th year in Athens.

3.  The contract should stipulate in ironclad language that should the coach depart for another head coaching job at a Division ! school, that school will be required to play a game in Athens within 3 years of the date of departure.  This may be waived by Ohio University, or the departing coach may buy this clause out for $1 million within 60 days of his leaving..

4. Should the coach depart for another job, the contract should stipulate that within 3 days of his resignation, he must A) physcially meet with the team to explain his decision and B) must appear at a news conference to take questions about his decision to leave.  The departing coach may buy this clause out for $1 million. 

LOL. Great reply!

Some of the  irrational posts here truly make me laugh long and hard.

Buyouts are un-American and reek of desperation.  You want someone to stay?  Pay them.  If you can't afford them, don't resort to some punitive gimmick.

Sure you can!  I forget which school it was, but it was a power conference team that had to go play some piddly mid major in Podunk precisely because they were obligated to when the coach at Podunk took his new job.  I'm not smart enough to think of this one myself.

All you need to do is start thinking out side the box.  Nothing new would ever happen with the attitude of "if we could have done this we already would have..."

I was questionable on JC until I saw Ndour.

Sure I hated JC since he beat our arse at KSU every game I watched.

But when I saw Ndour live I said damn.....if he leaves it would be nice to get a coach who could recruit someone like that.

The Buyout would be tax deductable, so take it off before you compute the taxes.


Exactly. The buyouts work in both directions. If Ohio wants to fire a coach early, they pay a buyout. If the coach wants to leave early, he pays a buyout. For that matter, if you want to change cell service providers early, you probably pay a buyout. They are not uncommon or un-American at all.

Doesn't the new school usually pay the buyout?  In Geno's case he didn't tell Bradley about the buyout provision and thus became personally liable.  At least that's my understanding.   Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.

I'd get sooooo excited seeing the Bryant Bulldogs and Coach O'Shea in the Convo!  Talk about excitement!

They were supposed to come here the year he took the job. Game vanished. So did the time Western Carolina was supposed to come here before LH got that job.