WORTH MONITORING: Hard jobs in the SEC got distinctly harder with Oklahoma and Texas entering the league. It is tougher to fight into the middle class for addresses like Arkansas, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State and South Carolina. (Things can change fast in either direction -- check the 2023 preseason hot seats for casual Missouri references.)
Vanderbilt is fresh off a winless SEC season under Clark Lea (9-27) as he enters Year 4. It's hard to imagine that school stomaching another massive buyout. The firing of basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse this spring, after he'd been extended in the fall of 2022 without reaching the NCAA tournament, is believed to be one of the biggest in college basketball history. (Reports vary but have started at $15 million.) Lea is an alum projected to be owed in the neighborhood of $18 million, and he was extended prior to the 2023 season through 2029. That's five years after the current season as the school pushes through a massive facility build.
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Vanderbilt is fresh off a winless SEC season under Clark Lea (9-27) as he enters Year 4. It's hard to imagine that school stomaching another massive buyout. The firing of basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse this spring, after he'd been extended in the fall of 2022 without reaching the NCAA tournament, is believed to be one of the biggest in college basketball history. (Reports vary but have started at $15 million.) Lea is an alum projected to be owed in the neighborhood of $18 million, and he was extended prior to the 2023 season through 2029. That's five years after the current season as the school pushes through a massive facility build.
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