The question becomes “what can they afford now?” Also, “how much taxpayer money gets wasted to cover this?”Told y'all who were saying they couldn't afford to do this that you're retarded. No question they were gonna fire him if he sucked this year.
I should have phrased that better. I wish that after Champ we should have recognized the damage and hired an elite coach. But I don't remember Champ's buyout either. Just seems like FSU was quick to recognize the damage and made a change. Just adding to frustration of this weekend.I mean they kind of did. Mac won two division titles in a row. We would be untouchable if we fired a coach during one of those years. He got fired a half season after that.
Champ didn’t get fired in 2013 although he should have, we lost like half the roster to injury that year and was outed the following year.
We will see if they go for a big buyout name somewhere (as if they’d be interested after this debacle). I’m really in disbelief there’s no way this doesn’t set them back in a big way financially.
Do we at least get their RB?
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that Haggins is a fixture at the school and may be given a chance to earn his position over the next month. If he beats BC and gets them to a bowl, it may be hard to fire him and they may be stuck again.
They raised $20M in private donations just to get rid of him.WiLLLLLLLie Taggart had a 6yr/$30M contract with FSU and they owe him 85% of the remaining salary. So Taggart will tack home approx $17M on his way out of FSU plus the approx $10M he made already. Many boosters had to be consulted to cover this bill.
Gonna be a lot of alums working overtime slinging burgers and fries to pay that bill.