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Message: [QUOTE="721Comstock, post: 4451882, member: 5429"] When the deal/extension was signed, Dino had built us up to a 10 win season, our first Top 25 ranking in ages, and with noteworthy Top 25 wins in the prior seasons vs/ Clemson, VaTech, etc. Clearly the concern was more of: we need to protect ourselves against Dino getting raided by the Football Factory programs of the world. and not we need to make it affordable for if/when we want to kick him to the curb sometime down the road. It's not that he was 2nd coming of Saban, Dabo, or anybody else. It's just what you have to do when you're an also-ran P5 program who seemed to have caught lightning in a bottle with a coaching hire. So, while I seriously doubt that ADJW never believed he'd be paying the buyout, he likely thought the odds of it were very, very low. [/QUOTE]