That comes on top of the biggest expense, paying off the fired coach's remaining years. Buyouts and ballooning salaries are simply part of the cost of doing business in big-time college athletics. If you don't sell tickets, you don't have money for your athletic program and the women's athletic program. So the coach hasn't got just to win, he's got to sell tickets. And they get paid for it.
Salaries continue to skyrocket, just like the players in pro athletics.
I didn't dream of it. The new Arkansas coach won't approach that figure, but the checkbook is open. Inc. All rights reserved. This document cannot be reprinted without the express written permission of Little Rock Newspapers, Inc.