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Originally Posted by Drake
Florida State fires Willie Taggart. Odell Haggins, who is in 26th season on FSU’s coaching staff, will be interim head coach
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He'll get paid nearly $17 million not to coach for the next few years. That is what FSU will pay to buy him out. They also paid Oregon $3 million to help with the buyout of his contract when they hired him, and paid a further $1.5 to Oregon to partially compensate Oregon for paying the buyout of whomever they hired him from.
What is mind boggling is FSU apparently raised these funds on fairly short order (the $17 million), from donors, alumni etc. That is a staggering amount of cash to come up with on short notice.
Which makes you wonder what some of these schools are going to do now that they can 'pay' athletes. If they can raise $17 million to fire someone they can probably raise all kinds of cash to pay players to attend. Makes it a pretty un-level playing field for those schools that cannot.