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Message: [QUOTE="Shrmdougluvr, post: 4009192, member: 396"] First of all, the payout for Dino at this point, is probably in the $10m + range. From an article in 2018, Alabama was paying out about $1.91m to nonconference sacrificial lambs. In that article, it reported the largest payout for any such game was just over $2.1m paid out by Nebraska in 2013. Even with "inflation," Syracuse is maybe getting paid $2.5m per game to get smacked on national TV. So you want to trade roughly 3-4 losses, just to finance buying out a losing coach? This is the proverbial "cutting off your nose in spite of your face." FWIW, I would be fine with him being let go if we could afford it. He's maxed out at this point, and what he has isn't good enough. But I don't see the value in the University dropping $10m and scheduling a few guaranteed losses (also higher risk of injury, disruption of travel, etc.), just too potentially win a couple extra games sometime down the road. [/QUOTE]