Another bad news hit Crimson Tide Football: The head coach of Crimson Tide Football shed tears as four of his star players made a final decision to terminate their huge contracts.

Another bad news hit Crimson Tide Football: The head coach of Crimson Tide Football shed tears as four of his star players made a final decision to terminate their huge contracts.

Crimson Tide Football has received more unfavorable news: Four of their top players have decided to end their enormous contracts, causing the head coach of the team to cry.

Nick Saban’s announcement of his retirement has made Alabama search for a new head coach, and this could make Dabo Swinney’s contract’s Crimson Tide-specific clause even more important.

accepted a 10-year, $115 million contract. If he decides to coach at Alabama rather than another institution, he will be required to pay 150 percent of his buyout in any given year, according to Sahil Kurup of the Tuscaloosa News.

Swinney would have had to pay $9 million if he had decided to go back to Alabama at the time he signed the extension, as opposed to $6 million for any other program in the nation.

During his playing career, the 54-year-old was a wide receiver for the Crimson Tide, playing for the team for three seasons (1990–1992). After that, he made the switch to coaching, beginning in 1993 as a graduate assistant under former head coach Gene Stallings. After that, he was the wide receivers coach at Alabama until 2000. In 2003, he began a long career as the head coach at Clemson.

Despite his two national championships with the Tigers, Swinney might think about going back to Tuscaloosa given the team’s recent struggles. Despite having only five losses in total from 2015 to 2019, Clemson has lost 12 games in the last four seasons. For the past three years, the Tigers have not advanced to the College Football Playoffs.

In September 2017, Swinney expressed his interest in returning to coach the Crimson Tide, telling ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit that he would be “humbled” to be given the opportunity to interview.

“That makes me feel humbled, and I’m grateful that someone would even consider me for a position like Alabama,” he remarked (via Creg Stephenson of AL.com).

“I’ve always said, ‘You never say never,’ because you have no idea what the dynamics are going to be,” he stated. “In ten years, Alabama might call and ask me to move there, and at that point, the Clemson community might despise me.” I’m not sure.

In comparison to another institution, Swinney will probably be willing to pay more in a contract buyout if he chooses to seek the head coaching position with the Crimson Tide.