I will say it again. If you cannot afford to fire the coach, then you cannot afford to play at this level.
At this level, there is never a need to give someone a $5M buyout.
Both points well taken and understood ... Having said that it should also be understood that much of what was handed out to Diaco and his assistants was done by Wharde & followed by the present administration to show the powers that be we could compete to get to the next level.
Sad to say we lost under paid coaches that helped in the climbing of the D1 ladder at the expense of some over paid taking us down. Randy's biggest problem was with Hathaway & UConn being the lowest paid team in The Big East. He made this point publicly along with others that did not like Jeff.
Things got bumped up a bit for the PP / George fiasco....
Sad to say now we have an over paid staff with a wacky control freak of a leader that renders their knowledge useless. This is sad in several directions as many of his staff bought in as we did. We spend money on seasons tickets and get disappointed, several of them left comfortable jobs and moved family's buying into the BD hype.
We can only hope for a strike of Jim / Geno lightning next....