Topic: Coach Huff's Contract

[HerdEcon]

Coach Huff is in the 3rd year of a 4 year contract.  The 4th year will start in January 2024.  Huff's base salary is $755,500.  He receives another $405,500 for tv/radio appearances and fundraising appearances.   There also built in incentives for such things as winning season, attendance, ticket sales, bowl appearance, conference championship, and etc.

This year Marshall and Huff will start the renegotiation process.  If Huff wins a conference championship then Marshall will try to tie him to a longer term, more money, and a bigger buyout.  Huff's agent will shop around and test the waters.

My question is where are we if Huff doesn't win a championship?  Where are we if we are 7 wins or less?  Does Marshall extend the contract with a pay raise? 

I think Huff will be offered a contract extension this season irregardless of the outcome.  It will just be a matter of how long, how much, and the buyout.

Thoughts?

[MicDrass1]

His recruited qbs are R-FR.  He?s just getting started.

[wasbarryb]

His recruited qbs are R-FR.  He?s just getting started.

If he has a successful season and offered significantly bigger bucks at a more visible program, he will be gone faster than you can blink.

If he is all that convinced his red shirt QBGs are all that good, he'll offer them healthy NIL money to follow him.  If they decide not to follow, he won't let it affect his decision what so ever.

Welcome to the brave new world of college football!

[GreenDaddy]

I'd like to see us let the season mostly play out before signing him to an extension. If we have a good enough year that bigger programs will almost certainly come to poach then we need to sign him to the best contract we can for buyout money. As we have seen elsewhere, it doesn't matter what the buyout is for G5 coaches, the big schools can afford to pay it. We will need that money to help bring in the next coach.

[HoPPy785]

If he really tanks then we let him coach next year without an extension. If he does well then we extend and hope he doesn't leave. If he has a 6/7 win type of year then I think it all depends on the relationships behind the scenes and why we underachieved.

[W0lfman]

Coach's current contract states if he were to accept a job prior to his contract expiring MU would receive 755k per remaining years of contract. If he leaves after this year he or a 3rd party would be responsible for 755k.

[WindMillersDad]

is there a copy of his contract floating around out there on the world wide web .... or anyplace else ?

can someone post it on here ?

[HerdEcon]

Coach's current contract states if he were to accept a job prior to his contract expiring MU would receive 755k per remaining years of contract. If he leaves after this year he or a 3rd party would be responsible for 755k.

We would likely have to pay a higher base salary than $775k to attract a qualified replacement.

Unless Huff tanks this season he will get offered an extension.  I think he has enough good will with the current administration and financial supporters to get an extension offer, even if we end 7-5 as some publications predict. 

It would be nice to see the buyout increased since we all know Huff is out the door as soon as the right door opens.  Buyout increased to the total annual value (base salary plus bonuses) per year remaining on the contract.  Maybe then Marshall could walk away with a little pocket money. 

[Flat Tire 2]

Coach Huff is in the 3rd year of a 4 year contract.  The 4th year will start in January 2024.  Huff's base salary is $755,500.  He receives another $405,500 for tv/radio appearances and fundraising appearances.   There also built in incentives for such things as winning season, attendance, ticket sales, bowl appearance, conference championship, and etc.

This year Marshall and Huff will start the renegotiation process.  If Huff wins a conference championship then Marshall will try to tie him to a longer term, more money, and a bigger buyout.  Huff's agent will shop around and test the waters.

My question is where are we if Huff doesn't win a championship?  Where are we if we are 7 wins or less?  Does Marshall extend the contract with a pay raise? 

I think Huff will be offered a contract extension this season irregardless of the outcome.  It will just be a matter of how long, how much, and the buyout.

Thoughts?

Just look at the basketball program to find your answer. We keep a coach who can't win a championship and has a couple of bad seasons.

[Flat Tire 2]

If he has a successful season and offered significantly bigger bucks at a more visible program, he will be gone faster than you can blink.

If he is all that convinced his red shirt QBGs are all that good, he'll offer them healthy NIL money to follow him.  If they decide not to follow, he won't let it affect his decision what so ever.

Welcome to the brave new world of college football!

I read a quotation from Huff saying that he would leave for a program that had the chance to be a national power. I think he is smart enough not to take a job at a school doesn't have the resources to be good or a national contender. Huff also said a coach is either going to be fired or he will leave. That is true statement.

 Look at all the good MU coaches who took the money and left MU. If someone offered you the money, you would be a fool not to consider the offer. I don't begrudge Donnan or Donovan for leaving for SEC schools. It is just a reality of coaching. Saying that, I bleed Green.

[svherd]

Lets see how the season plays out. If he has a good year, then talk extension immediately. If not, let the contract roll through and see what happens.

[W0lfman]

is there a copy of his contract floating around out there on the world wide web .... or anyplace else ?

can someone post it on here ?

let's see if this works for you... uploaded as attachment

[MicDrass1]

Huff?s Herd seems to play well OOC.  That?s enough for an extension.  Especially if he does it again this year.

[herdfan129]

I would like to see us start including in the contract that whichever team poaches our coach they must agree to a home game in Huntington as well. I think WKU did this and possibly still does.

[miltonherdfan]

Huff?s Herd seems to play well OOC.  That?s enough for an extension.  Especially if he does it again this year.

1-3 vs OOC G5 = "well"??

[bbcard1]

1-3 vs OOC G5 = "well"??

In all fairness, it's a damn big 1. The dismantling of Navy was also impressive. I'd take Huff as long as he wants to stay here and I'll be happy to worry about the football team and let someone else worry about the coach's contract.

[miltonherdfan]

In all fairness, it's a damn big 1. The dismantling of Navy was also impressive. I'd take Huff as long as he wants to stay here and I'll be happy to worry about the football team and let someone else worry about the coach's contract.

the 1 in "1-3 vs OOC G5" IS Navy

if we're all honest with ourselves, we all know it's this close to being 1-4 vs OOC "FBS" (if our ND upset would've been a L).  we all know how big of a win ND was, but we also know laying the green glasses aside & looking objectively, we're probably gonna be the only team in 50 yrs that wasn't good enough to beat MAC power BG but was able to beat ND in the same season.  & in consecutive weeks, at that.  the ND win was an opportunity for us to announce to the rest of college football that we are back & ready to make some noise, & instead we screwed the pooch & showed where we really were as a program by losing to BG 7 days later.

but, back to what i posted, 1-3 vs OOC G5 (win = navy) doesn't equal anything positive.

[Flat Tire 2]

Hated getting upset at BGSU, we should have put the game away in the first quarter until we fumble on the goal line and we lost momentum (remember the game with wvu). I will give the BG coaching staff credit, they noticed we lost one of our best defensive backs during the ND game. The replacement at the DB position was not very good and BG exploited it with a good QB and WR. On the plus side, Huff has been working the portal to bring better plays to handle that type of situation.

I live in Florida and there are a ton of ND fans living down here. I see as much ND clothing as I see Florida clothing.  I still get comments from people when I wear my MU clothing about upsetting ND. I bet most of the casual fans never heard of MU.  My guess is that the vast majority of the ND and causal fans don't know we got beat by BG the following week. I wonder how many fans remember what Appy did after upsetting Michigan? All fans talk about is that Appy beat Michigan. We play well and beat ND, but I don't think we had team that was good enough to make a run to the playoffs.

I am not happy with losing to BG, but I have been attending MU games since the 1960's and we have never had a greater victory. I never thought in my wildest dreams we would beat the icon of college football on national over the air TV (not a cable channel or regional network). JMO.

[carolinaherdfan]

Hated getting upset at BGSU, we should have put the game away in the first quarter until we fumble on the goal line and we lost momentum (remember the game with wvu). I will give the BG coaching staff credit, they noticed we lost one of our best defensive backs during the ND game. The replacement at the DB position was not very good and BG exploited it with a good QB and WR. On the plus side, Huff has been working the portal to bring better plays to handle that type of situation.

I live in Florida and there are a ton of ND fans living down here. I see as much ND clothing as I see Florida clothing.  I still get comments from peoplr when I wear my MU clothing about upsetting ND. I bet most of the casual fans never heard of MU.  My guess is that the vast majority of the ND and causal fans don't know we got beat by BG the following week. I wonder how many fans remember what Appy did after upsetting Michigan? All fans talk about is that Appy beat Michigan. We play well and beat ND, but I don't think we had team that was good enough to make a run to the playoffs.

I am not happy with losing to BG, but I have been attending MU games since the 1960's and we have never had a greater victory. I never thought in my wildest dreams we would beat the icon of college football on national over the air TV (not a cable channel or regional network). JMO.

I agree 100%

[andy31]

I think I would have tried to tack a year or two onto the deal after last season.  I think Huff will leave us for greener pastures at some point so it would have sweetened the buyout for us a little without doing a prohibitively long extension.

[MicDrass1]

I like beating Notre Dame more than BG

I like winning against the P5s the most

[bbcard1]

I think you can blame ECU on coaching, but BG was completely on player lack of performance...not motivation, but fumbling...happens sometimes. That said, the same player who fumbled away the victory at BG was instrumental in the win at ND.

[BigJimslade]

Coach Huff is in the 3rd year of a 4 year contract.  The 4th year will start in January 2024.  Huff's base salary is $755,500.  He receives another $405,500 for tv/radio appearances and fundraising appearances.   There also built in incentives for such things as winning season, attendance, ticket sales, bowl appearance, conference championship, and etc.

This year Marshall and Huff will start the renegotiation process.  If Huff wins a conference championship then Marshall will try to tie him to a longer term, more money, and a bigger buyout.  Huff's agent will shop around and test the waters.

My question is where are we if Huff doesn't win a championship?  Where are we if we are 7 wins or less?  Does Marshall extend the contract with a pay raise? 

I think Huff will be offered a contract extension this season irregardless of the outcome.  It will just be a matter of how long, how much, and the buyout.

Thoughts?

I have no thoughts on this cause it doesn?t really matter

[ru4mu2]

I have no thoughts on this cause it doesn?t really matter

We know....

[Johnnyherd]

I heard an interview of Coach Huff where I earned some respect he said, (paraphrasing)

"I have heard mentioned that some people think Marshall needs to raise my contract, don't worry about me, we (his family) have all we need. 

There are much more important things that need funding around here, mainly a training table so that athletes can eat and we can recruit against schools that have such facilities, if you have money to give, please support our athletes don't worry about me."