$2.3M for a buyout on MG is chump change. Allowing your most visible program to crash through to the ACC basement (a near-certainty if not fired after THIS season) has real costs, too.
And it only saves you 1/3 of that $2.3M, don’t it??
Firing an underperforming coach always costs money. We make a lot of it (though much less than we would in a properly-run conference), especially through TV dollars.
Unless you go back to the insane notion of “coaching through the end of the contract” which nobody does anywhere, ever. Not anymore.
Remember how lucky we got with TOB wanting to go to UVA and we had to pay him peanuts of what we owed him? Consider that found money for this.
This is a bad situation. Sitting on it and allowing it to fester only makes it worse.
AND YES, you hire a REAL COACH. You can’t bring back the guy who couldn’t land any of the Big South jobs he went after. Spend money to make money. You want to fill seats in that ridiculously over-capacity hockey arena, or have it be empty for three more years? Really think that will be net in NC State’s financial interests??
Nobody knows what is in Arch’s contract for sure, but if he WANTS to come back here as is rumored, then he likely has a favorable buyout for his alma mater (as many similarly situated coaches do).
It’s not like he doesn’t have business or legal representation, and/or nobody has ever considered this eventuality before.
I mean, not EVERYBODY in the world operates like NC State does.
