https://www.expressnews.com/sports/...-coach-Jeff-Traylor-with-10-year-16579400.php Should Traylor choose to leave UTSA before or during the first year of the new agreement, the school would be entitled to a $7.5 million buyout. That figure decreases to $7 million in the second year of the new contract, dropping by $1 million each of the following three years. Spoiler
Don't know how he'll fare as HC, but he is completely plugged into the HS coaching fraternity in Texas. It was Cedar Park, I believe, that he turned from a nobody into a perennial power before he went to Baylor. eta: it was Cedar Hill, not Cedar Park At Cedar Hill, McGuire took on a program that had not recorded a winning season in years and had never won a playoff game. As head coach from 2003 through 2016, McGuire went 141-42 and led the Longhorns to four state-championship games, winning in 2006, 2013 and 2014 and finishing runner-up in 2012. His teams won seven district titles, nine bi-district championships, and appeared in the playoffs in 12 straight years. Just found this, it's a good read, when I say "plugged in" I mean plugged in: https://www.lubbockonline.com/story...rst-impression-tech-football-fans/6358453001/
You know it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy in Dan Mullen getting fired @ Florida. The guy reeks of smugness and arrogance - his disregard for recruiting was just one of many things that doomed him. Florida is still paying severance pay/buyouts to now 3 coaches in Muschamp, McElwain and now Mullen. I wish I could become a head coach for a major college football team. I would insist on a contract that would pay me at least 4 to 5 million a season and that if I got fired that they (the college or university) would pay me twice as much (8 to 10 million) just to go away.
Cant remember where I read this but apparently colleges have paid something like $600M in buyouts the past decade. Insane.
