Clemson’s Dabo Swinney Has $9M Contract Buyout For Alabama After Saban Retirement
ZACH BACHAR
JANUARY 12, 2024
Jacksonville, Florida, December 29:
Head coach Dabo Swinney of the Clemson Tigers looks on amid the primary half of the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl against the Kentucky Wildcats at EverBank Stadium on December 29, 2023, in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Pictures)
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As Alabama looks for a unused head coach after Scratch Saban declared his retirement, Dabo Swinney’s dark red tie-specific clause in his contract seems more pertinent than ever.
The Clemson head coach agreed to a 10-year contract worth $115 million in Sep. 2022. According to Sahil Kurup of the Tuscaloosa News, he ought to pay 150 percent of his buyout in a given year on the off chance that he chooses to coach at Alabama over another school.
At the time he marked the expansion, Swinney would have had to pay $9 million in case he chose to return to Alabama, compared to $6 million for any other programme within the nation.
The 54-year-old was a wide recipient for the Dark red Tide back in his playing days, taking an interest in three seasons from 1990 through 1992. He at that point transitioned into coaching, beginning off as a graduate right hand beneath previous head coach Quality Stallings in 1993. He at that point served as Alabama’s wide receivers coach up until 2000 some time recently beginning his long career with Clemson in 2003.
In spite of the fact that he’s won two national championships with the Tigers, the team’s need of victory in later a long time may cause Swinney to consider returning to Tuscaloosa. After recording fair five add up to misfortunes from 2015 through 2019, Clemson has endured 12 massacres within the past four seasons. The Tigers have fizzled to create the College Football Playoff in each of the past three years.
Swinney has talked almost coaching the Blood red Tide within the past, telling ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit that he would be “lowered” to be considered a candidate in a Sep. 2017 meet.
“I’m lowered by that and certainly appreciate that anyone would indeed think that way, that they would need me to be a candidate for a work like Alabama,” he said (h/t Creg Stephenson of AL.com).
“I’ve continuously said ‘you never say never,’ since you’ve got no idea what the flow are reaching to be,” he included. “Ten a long time from presently, Alabama may call me and need me to come to Alabama, and the Clemson individuals may despise me at that point. I do not know.”
In the event that Swinney chooses to seek after the Blood red Tide’s head coaching opportunity, he’ll likely be arranged to pay more in a contract buyout compared to another school.
