https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-football-coaches-fir...

Virginia Tech paying 8.5M. Texas paid 24M to get rid of the staff last year. Ridiculous.

Mullen out at Florida.

If enough schools fire their coach, James Franklin can keep losing this season at State Penn and still bolt to somewhere else. That honeymoon should be over soon.

Rumor is that he is about to sign or has already signed an extension at Penn State
https://www.on3.com/teams/penn-state-nittany-lions/news/p... /

Firings or openings? Because the number of openings will shoot up as current coaches leave to fill some of these openings

No one else thinks the millions in payouts are crazy and shouldn't be happening?

What's your point? There's only 3 ways they don't happen:
1) Schools stick with their losing/bad coaches through the end of their contracts, regardless the damage that does to recruiting, fan support, fund raising, etc.

2) Schools concoct real or imagined reasons to fire said losing/bad coaches "for cause" (thus voiding or reducing the buy-out). These justifications may be subsequently found to have been dubious or insufficient (hello Kansas and David Beatty), leading to reinstated buyouts and (depending on how nasty things get) putative or compensatory damages. Alternatively, you'd see a rise in the proportion of contracts that require pay-out regardless of NCAA or other sanction.

3) If real, enforceable mechanisms are developed that release schools from their contractual obligation to pay out the previously negotiated and mutually agreed to buyouts for early termination of a coach's contract, I predict you'd start to see contracts that are heavily front loaded to mitigate this risk (e.g. currently Coach A is signed to a school to coach for 10 years at $10 million/year; to mitigate against early-termination risk/legally excused welching on the buyout, Coach A's contract might instead be structured such that he's paid $99.1 Million dollars in year 1 and $100,000/year in years 2-10).

Do you think any of those are more likely than large payouts continuing to be paid?

Was never amateur sports. You really think Wooden didn't pay /. know of payments to players? Really?

I agree and it’s always gone on. I could tell you stories about little old me. Why does it have to be under the table? I will say that when coaches were being paid like professors, that kind of stuff was penny ante. Sure, it went on, but the dollars are much bigger today. The NCAA doesn’t want to deal with the baggage of players being employees, but that’s what they are in the new era. The coaches salaries and buyouts are indicative, as well as the TV deals. It’s time to move on and give up the charade.

That's happened at way more schools than you think

No-work jobs used to be very common for collage athletes, even pray tell at our dear old alma mater. Yes, at OHIO. I remember back in my student days, in the Hess Era, I had a fellow student and football player brag to me about his nice cushy job where he got a regular paycheck from the university and showing up and working was strictly optional. He kind of considered it a perk of being a scholarship football player.

Now, up at the Big Football Farm in Cowtown, there was a professor (initials of WWS) who gave every OSU athlete one letter grade higher than he earned if he took WWS’ public relations class during the quarter that his sport was being played. WWS announced this openly in class for all to hear. His rational was that the athlete was engaged in a public relation program for the university when on the field or court. (I’ve used the male pronoun here because as best I can recall there were few if any women’s varsity sports at that time at Cowtown U.)

Skip Holtz done at LaTech.