Food for thought about the Gamecocks OC

[kingofnerf]

On Friday, South Carolina’s Board of Trustees approved the contracts of White, Satterfield, Gray and Day.

Here are the details of each coach’s new deals at South Carolina:

Defensive coordinator Clayton White (signed three-year deal)

2021: $900,000
2022: $900,000
2023: $900,000

Offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield (signed two-year deal)

2021: $900,000
2022: $900,000

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/south-carolina-football/gamecocks-carolina-coaching-contract-details-2021-assistants-coordinators/

From a recruiting standpoint, how is only signing your new OC to a two-year deal any different than Spurrier infamously saying he might retire when he did?

Satt is a dead-man-walking to many recruits and competing recruiters.  Any decent computing recruiter can work that pretty good with recruits.

There are only 3 reasons you would do something like this:

1)  Satt is only passing through and is intending on going back to the NFL or a college head-coaching job after that.  Maybe he didn't give Shane a choice.

2)  He really wanted a 3-year deal like White and is not doing his job the best he can because he is bitter.

3)  Our AD and/or Shane is not experienced enough to know why you don't do something like this.

Unless something changes, next season is Satt's last, but I think you need to go ahead and make a change at the end of the season if we are still this bad.

 

[Swayin]

We could have hire the Coach from Coastal.

So could have the dozen other teams looking for new coaches, but he didn't get hired by any of them. Why do you think that is?

First, Shane was a bad hire. Admit it now or Four years from now. 

There's no way you or anyone else in the world could say this now and have it based on anything but knee-jerk, "we just lost a bad game" emotions. We won 2 games last year - what did you think would happen? And of course, you may well be right in the end - but to look at it through 6 games when we are 3-3 and say that, is just speculation. The biggest questions in my mind are about how Shane learns from the mistakes he is bound to make in his first season as head coach, and grows from there - not that he emerged from the womb  with every answer.

 

[kingofnerf]

I was just a casual fan when I first joined CT and certainly have learned a lot from others there and here over the years.

One of those things I am learning now is an AD has to have a certain amount of business acumen to be successful and I think that is one of Tanner's shortcomings.

The money stuff that happened with Muschamp's termination was outrageous and I thought Tanner should have been fired for that alone, Covid or not.

I think the contract situation with Satt is one of those things that could put us behind the 8-ball from the beginning, but an extension right now would be just as bad.  Still, I think the question of why he was only given a two-year contract when everyone else got a three-year deal needs to be asked.

The one good thing about Shane is he has Frank to fall back on for guidance if he needs it.  I am sure Frank whiffed on his share of hires, as all HCs do, in his day.

I still firmly believe Shane will turn things around for us, but we have to be realistic about some things.

The players are still the wild card in this whole thing.  When will they start consistently playing the way they should?