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I Wish I Had The Buyouts that NCAA Coaches Get (And You Will Too)
Getting fired has never felt so good
It is Saturday in autumn. Rivalry week no less. That means college football games will be kicking off shortly. The pageantry, the competition, the tradition. The money!
The chance for once great coaches to be buried in piles of money for being awful at their jobs.
Last week, Dan Mullen was fired as the coach of the Florida Gators after four seasons at the helm. As an avid Gator fan I can tell you that his tenure had some very high highs and some very low lows. His performance was inconsistent, his defenses were not good and his post game comments raised more than a few eyebrows. For the powerful people who run the show in Gainesville those things were enough to cut him loose one game before the end of the season.
For the most part I liked the guy. He produces prolific offenses that are generally fun to watch and he has a proven track record of developing offensive players (Kyle Trask anyone?) that out perform their scouting projections. I felt bad for him when they fired him.
Then I read his buyout clause.
Per his contract, Dan Mullen is owed a whopping $12 million. Let me write that again. He is owed, legally bindingly owed, $12,000,000 for…
