re: Has a major program ever retained a coach with zero support because of the buyout cost?

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Buyouts are typically reduced by whatever that coach ends up making in their next job. So if your buyout is 10m a year for five years, and your next job is 4 m, then only 6m is owed. Also, there are clauses that require you to seek employment, you can't do what Ed O did, that was a special agreement and not typical.

Therefore, don't look at that buyout number for a coach as something you necessarily have to pay. Jimbo's could be different, I'm just commenting in general.

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Generally speaking you are right. But Jimbo got the equivalent of Saban's unprecedented contract structure, with no buyout, no offsetting salary stipulations, etc. It's a pure X years with X money owed, period.