re: Total Cost of Firing Butch

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Worth every penny to get his worthless arse out.

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Would've paid even more to do it. We were the second most profitable program in the nation last season. We have plenty of money and holding onto to Butch would've cost us far more than we're paying. In retrospect, we held onto him far too long for 'stability's sake' and it cost us financially and in terms of turning a decent job of rebuilding into yet another rebuild.

We'd have been in better shape by every measure had Butch been let go after last season but the AD was afraid that firing him after numerically decent season wasn't justifiable despite all evidence pointing to an absolute shite show of a poor job that season. And the AD was right in the sense that we would've been crucified by the media and everyone else for it.

Ironically, UF did what we should've done despite those fears and no one gave a damn about it. UF is in fact now praised both for the firing and for fricking Mac over while we're crucified for backing out of hiring Schiano.

Of course, very few will even acknowledge that glaring double standard.

UT should've fired Butch the first time he walked out on the field during spring game with a microphone. His personality is what scuttled his coaching career, IMO.

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Ironically, UF did what we should've done despite those fears and no one gave a damn about it. UF is in fact now praised both for the firing and for fricking Mac over while we're crucified for backing out of hiring Schiano.

Of course, very few will even acknowledge that glaring double standard.

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For what it's worth, I've seen many criticize them for it... they just did it so god damn fast that it was in and out of the headlines pretty quickly. UT's hiring search went on for so long they had a hard time getting the Schiano situation out of the headlines. Also, twitter riots have a way of being remembered.

As someone married to a Vol, I know what you guys are going through. The fact that a contract was ever drawn up for him was really odd... he's just not a hire that's going to move the needle in the right direction for UT, regardless of whether he might end up having success (which the odds were dubious IMO). Pruitt at least gives you some hope of something different than what you've gotten with both of the previous 2 hires.

As I said in another post before... as irritating as it was to lose the 2016 game to UT with the Hail Mary... in the long run, it may have been to our benefit. I was shocked when they kept him on board for one more season.

Even though the mou wasn't fully signed, this is terrible. Combine this with firing the AD and man oh man.

the MOU is a signed contract based on what I could read that is official until the signed perm contract is in place. They will owe some of this too.

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Currie was fired for cause

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Will Currie be paid more or less than $1M for being fired for cause?

Some of Botch's staff has already gotten jobs including Shoop so that's a buyout offset and I'm sure more will get jobs. Gillispe was retained by Pruitt and he was one of the better paid coaches none cord. And when Botch gets a job coaching at a NAIA school in Butte Montana that $37,000 will be offset so there's that.

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Explain please

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He did not hire Gruden

As a UT fan I couldn't care less about the money UT owes anyone as it's mostly booster money. UT, and UTAD are fine financially. Not sure why other fans care.

I'm just tired of buyouts forcing schools to keep coaches longer than they should. Fan expectations, and buyouts arent matching up. Out of control.

I don't care for the Jones era. Never thought he was a good fit, and a "seedy salesman" type. I would have preferred to keep Dooley, Chaney, and Pittman at dirt cheap then go thru the last 5 yrs. Dooley was hamstrung asst coaches wise, ie LB coach turned UT DC in Sunsari, cause Hart wanted to bring his own guy. Who turned out to be Jones, and his pack of MAC assts.

Hope Pruitt does it, but i'm concerned with rumors of his temper. One thing is getting fired up, but seems he may be a bit redneck off. Which is fine to a point too, but don't want to wake up one day to social media pic of him shirtless drunk looking to fight the bar.

We'll see just wish we could fire coaches easier. UF lucked out with coach macs "death threats" screw up, and they pounced. If it werent for that they would still have him as a coach.

I dunno if Currie was ever actually fired, or just suspended?

Additionally, did he meet the terms for show cause when he went to the west coach meeting with Leach rather than coming home for a meeting as Bev had directed him?