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Message: [QUOTE="tennmike, post: 2488779, member: 4444"] Our once proud brand has sunk to a new low; Ollie needs to go now before this mess gets unrecoverable. As to the buyout, this is where the AD needs to earn his keep. The ~$10 million is to be paid out over the term of the contract (2021). Generally, the payout would be offset by earnings at another institution should Ollie become the head basketball coach elsewhere. Benedict needs to communicate to Ollie that the gig is up. Further, he needs to convince him that an employed head coach has more value than an unemployed one. Ollie needs a change in scenery; his own personal brand may be tarnishing more quickly than ours - he needs to be out as bad as we need him out. Ollie cannot fix this team. Benedict then must help Ollie find that next job to mitigate the payout. We can get a very good coach and still save $500k annually from what we are paying Ollie. So $2 million of the $10 is comp differential. Let's say Ollie earns $1 million/year at his next school...we've accounted for $6 of the $10 million. Granted, this is an oversimplification. Not saying that this is easy, but how much is this disaster going to cost us if this continues? [/QUOTE]