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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
A lot of GM's backed off because the bidding was getting ridiculously high. And while analysts thought he'd get a lot, a lot of people knew some idiot sucker would win the Richards sweepstakes but in a few years would be left holding the bag..... in fact lots of people here thought that.
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Hence the contracts being front loaded. The vast majority of analysts were not predicting Richards to fall off after 1-2 years.
For all intents and purposes, Richards was given a 6 year contract.