BleedCubbieBlue

Yes, but you have to supply the carbon copy imprinter.

On a completely unrelated note, @Chris007 and I will be starting our own agency called the Chris007 & BleedCubbieBlue Center for Teams Who Can't Hoop Good. We will be working exclusively with crappy teams to exploit their misfortune to extract the absolute most money we can for our clients.

In fairness, his coach has never seen a hump that he didn't think he could work through.

What if Scott Dolson is Keyser ****!ng Soze? If he fires Woody and QB blocks Pearl, Dolson would presumably still have the money left-over from paying Woody his buyout payment instead of his salary. He takes the $3.2M and gives it to Dusty May. Since he isn't spending more money, I don't think it would require board approval. QB looks like a jerk, he is off the board in 2025, and Scott Dolson gets the guy he wanted all along. It takes all the heat off Dolson and if for some reason it doesn't go well for Dusty, QB gets all the blame.

My read on the situation is that we are looking at a giant game of chicken. Dolson doesn't want to fire Woody without approval for the new coach, and Buckner doesn't want to be the most hated IU player of all time (yes, even more than Dan Dakich), by not hiring Pearl. Before all of the info leaked, Dolson didn't have any leverage. If he can't blame Buckner for everything, it will look like he is incompetent and didn't have a plan to hire anyone. Now that people are finding out that Buckner is blocking Pearl, in favor of his nepo-baby, Dolson can turn it all on Buckner. Now we just have to see who will blink first.

Correct. I believe the exact language is "In the event the Coach terminates the Agreement under the provisions of this Paragraph, Coach or his designee will pay the Coach's Buy-out Amount..."

I believe this is correct. To sweeten the deal even more, Bruce Pearl only has to pay 50% of the buyout within 30 days of leaving. The rest of the buyout isn't due for another year. Theoretically, if a booster could pay the buyout and Pearl didn't take a salary for the first year, he could sign on the dotted line tomorrow, and then sign his real contract in 2025 after Buckner is off the board.

Yes. That is my understanding based on how I read the delegation of authority to the BoT.

Buckner is not the King of the Board, he is the Chair of the Board. Article VIII Section C of the BoT bylaws specifically states: The decision of the majority voting on the question shall prevail.

The board gets its power through its delegation of authority, the President has the rest of the power. The delegation dealing with coaches is as follows: Approval of salary, increases, performance bonuses, or other forms of compensation for the President and those head coaches making more than a dollar amount designated annually in writing by the Trustees to the President; Presumably the salary for Woodson has already been approved. Since the buyout figure for this year would actually be less than the salary, I don't think that it would require board approval. With all of that said, Bruce Pearl's buyout and salary would also not be approved. I think this may be Dolson's nuclear option. He fires Woodson and dares the board to not allow him to hire another coach.

But on the bright side, you have a built-in excuse for sucking. "These guys haven't been playing together very long".

You want to unite people? Hire a coach that can win. Winning fixes everything.

Apparently all of the recruiting his has been doing is conflicting with his tee times.

Everyone who covers IU basketball and has been given the green light to go after Woodson needs to aim their fire at QB. Maybe if he is named and shamed enough, he will have no choice but to go along with Dolson. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Somebody should probably tell the emperor that he is naked.

Stop trying to apply logic to this situation. Instead, call up one of your buddies from high school - the guy that always managed to talk you into some crazy @$$ situation - and go get rip roaring drunk. Then tell your buddy to convince you that he can coach Indiana basketball. This will help you with two things. It will get you into the same headspace as the current clown orgy running the show, and it will probably convince you that your crazy high school buddy is more qualified to coach this team than our current coach. Either way, the liquor will help you understand why QB is sticking by Woodson. Once you remove all logic, it makes perfect sense.

Do you have any idea if IU has reached out to anyone in Drew's camp?

IU is looking good but I have to get back to the chores.

Not really. It is probably 70% riding and 30% fixing. All you need is some good wool socks and a fleece-lined tin cloth and you are good to go.

I come in from mending fences on the ranch and I am welcomed to this garbage. At least they started scoring when I started watching.

It’s not you, it’s me.

$8.5M is his opt out. The $17M buyout is what the university would owe him if they fired him. His opt out drops to $7M on May 1st.

More like a confederacy of dunces.

You are correct. Buyouts essentially act as a way to guarantee a coach time and also act as a pre-negotiated severance package. I think that it is interesting that Bruce Pearl actually has two buyout clauses in his contract. One is a coach's buyout that acts like an opt out and the other is a university buyout that acts like a guarantee of time and a severance package. The coach's buyout is much lower than the university buyout, which is why there was initially confusion on the buyout total for BP. Why would you negotiate a lower buyout for your opt out if you intended for your contract to act as a lifetime contract?