re: Bert's buyout not $15M after all

So... Why would someone from Bert's camp float the buyout figure to the media or go to them about it, because that seems to be the understanding right now? Rev can you dig in and see if this is legitimate or not?

I can only assume that he's wanting the college football world to know that it doesn't take that much to buy him out because he's expecting suitors and/or wants out, right?

I think wally was told to put pressure on them both. Then long let the contract out to take pressure off him and place it squarely on Bert.

It is over for him. I think beating auburn and winning out is the only way to keep his job. I will say that at this point I do not want Him to accomplish this goal. Infact I would want him fired anyways. We are boring and predictable. It's time for a change no matter what.

We have seen signs of his ineptness since year one. We didn't know it then and blamed it on JLS. This dude has been a fraud his whole time here.

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I don't think it came from CBB's camp at all.

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See this is what I was assuming at first too, I mean obviously it was put out there intentionally with Long's blessing to say "game on."

But this guy I normally hear this stuff from is swearing it came from someone on Bert's side and that they consider this the first shots fired because he won't go quietly into the night. I don't know how this would benefit him other than signaling to other programs to come bang his door down for his services, and with his ego that's not hard to believe either.

Occams razor says it was an AD release, so that's what we'll go with until there's more out there.

I would be very shocked to find out that CBB had anything to do with it. And I'm not sure Long did. More like a BOT member who wants some action decided to force the issue.

Time to fire up good ol' Flightaware.

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It makes sense, we all know the media in the state is controlled by the hill. Look at ole Wally the past week. He was unleashed by somebody...

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This. I think some of these people just moved to Arkansas if they don’t know how this all works. Stories like this don’t just pop up in the ADG because we have excellent journalists.

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Wally doesn't know jack shite about what goes on at the UofA. He's a shamockery of a journalist and sports editor. Orville was close with Broyles and as connected as a sports writer could get. Wally is basically Peej with column space.

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But, But, but... he wont write anything scathing without some prodding. And he received a little shock last week.

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"...To arrive at the number, you take the numerator (if done in December would be $15.4 million…if done in January would be $11.7 million) and you divide by the denominator (the total months of the Term of Employment Agreement…which is now 97 months – early Dec 2012 – Dec 2020). Thus, if done in December the total monthly payout to Bielema would be $158,763 and if done in January would be $120,619. Then you multiply the monthly number by the remaining months under contract. In December that would be 37 and in January 36.

Thus, if Bielema is let go in early December, Arkansas will owe him $5,874,231. If he is let go in early January, Arkansas would owe him $4,342,284.

All of the above remains subject to offset from any work Bielema accepts in coaching football or as an administrator with a University or professional team.

For sure, $5.8 million is a lot more than the $1 million it would have been under the original contract, but is a whole lot less than the $15.4 million that Arkansas and his agent allowed to be written about for years mistakenly. I wonder why they never corrected the authors about this ongoing mistake?"

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