Petrino supposedly ran your program into the ground, or at least that's what many fans and Sports Illustrated think.Nice try “Zipp”, but the McElwain example is another swing and a miss. Do you not read what you link? In this case, you linked a story about his buyout with Florida that has the least amount of details of any story I’ve seen about the case, but it does contain the basic fact that led to his settlement: “… the school negotiated an agreement - presumably because McElwain failed to provide evidence to support his Oct. 23 claim (at a press conference) he, his family, staff and players had received death threats from the UF fan base.” The reason that this became an issue is that Florida was going to use that to justify a “for cause” firing on the grounds that if McElwain’s claim of death threats was real, and he then failed to report them to Florida administration officials, even when he was subsequently asked by them, then he failed in his duty to protect his players. So, McElwain settled since he was in danger of not receiving any of his buyout money from Florida, as well as having Florida not continue with their portion of his buyout to Colordao State from his buyout there when he got the Florida job. It was a circus, and I’m sorry you seem to not remember it or understand all of this.
When you cited the Les Miles case as an example, I’ll consider that strike 1 on this topic. Now, McElwain is strike 2. Care to try for strike 3? Or maybe you can come up with some real rationale for Petrino to make a deal concerning the buyout, but we haven’t seen a good reason yet. You should just give it up while you are so far behind on this silly argument.
"Vince" evidently didn't agree...
And he opened up the doors to Fort Knox and said "Bobby, come get it!" That was his choice AND the U of L backstory.
Here's another guy... Why in heaven's name would Pitt offer Stallings something less than his full buyout? Didn't they hear?...An AD MUST pay the contract amount!!
Boggles the mind...
Kevin Stallings
Last edited: