Last Updated: November 16, 2023, 03:30 IST
Texas A&M fired soccer coach Jimbo Fisher, deciding that it was wonderful with paying him greater than $75 million — the stability of his absolutely assured, 10-yr contract that he signed in 2020. The buyout is the best paid to a coach in school sports activities historical past.
Athletic director Ross Bjork mentioned unrestricted contributions throughout the donor-backed twelfth Man Foundation shall be used to make an preliminary cost of $19 million to Fisher inside 60 days and the remaining can be paid with athletic division funds.
Some of the present buyouts for coaches at public universities on the high of faculty soccer, totaling $585.5 million:
— Contract expires 2031.
— His predecessor, Mark Richt, had a $4.1 million buyout in 2015.
— Contract expires 2031.
— His predecessor, Ed Orgeron, had a $16.9 million buyout in 2021.
— Contract expires 2031.
— He would owe Penn State $6 million if he left for the NFL this yr.
— Contract expires 2031.
— If Swinney took one other job this yr, he would owe Clemson $5 million. If that job was Alabama, the place he was a stroll-on, he would owe $7.5 million.
— Contract expires 2031, signed 2022.
— Nebraska required to pay solely 90% of remaining contract worth.
— His predecessor, Scott Frost, had a $15 million buyout in 2022.
— Contract expires 2031.
— Kentucky required to pay solely 75% of remaining contract worth.
— His predecessor, Joker Phillips, had a $2.5 million buyout in 2012.
— Contract expires 2029, signed in 2023.
— Tennessee paid buyouts of $12.6 million to Jeremy Pruitt in 2020 and $8.3 million to Butch Jones in 2017.
— Contract expires 2028, signed in 2022.
— An NFL crew or one other faculty must pay Ohio State $4.5 million if it had been to rent Day earlier than Feb. 1, 2024.
— Contract expires 2030, signed in 2021.
— Alabama would owe Saban 48 months’ pay if he had been fired, or for the variety of months remaining if contract is inside 4 years of expiration.
— Contract expires 2028, signed in 2023.
— An NFL crew or one other faculty must pay Oregon $20 million to rent him at any level in the course of the contract time period.
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