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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 4056312, member: 173"]
There's a concept in macroeconomic theory called "opportunity cost".  The issue is that whatever resources get spent on one thing, CANNOT be spent on another.

Its really easy to armchair quarterback, and be baffled why other people won't spend their (limited) resources in the way you would prefer.  That the buyout "isn't insurmountable" isn't the issue.  Its that there's limited resources, and something won't get done that would also have value to the university as a whole if the money gets spent on a buyout.

As others have said, universities that buy out coaches are often doing that with money boosters pony up specifically to pay to dump a coach.  I see a lot of angst from people that Syracuse might not choose to spend their own money to dump Dino - I have yet to see the link to a GoFundMe that would, possibly, actually matter.

(And "not going to games anymore" if Dino gets fired is not likely to lead to the result you want.  If I was in charge of spending and knew I had declining revenues from attendance, major uncertainty it could be turned around sustainably, AND lots of other things I wanted/needed to spend money on - the last thing I would do is dedicate more resources to the AD.  Alabama was still drawing 92,000 fans to games when Mike Shula was coaching them to sub-500 seasons - that they have revenue certainty is a big part of why they can and do make changes more quickly than Syracuse.  While that may seem counter-intuitive - Its also reality.  That northeastern fans in general and Syracuse fans specifically are very fickle contributes to the tendency to hang on to losing coaches longer than other schools would.)
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