It's Enough Money To Buy The Damn State

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Rich Rodriguez and Michigan Buy West Virginia [College Football]
Published 7/9/2008 by C'lay at Deadspin
... $1.5 million, spread over three years, beginning in 2010. U-M said it will pay the balance of the sum, $2.5 million, immediately and cover Rodriguez’s legal fees later. Awesome, there goes my wife's contribution to the Michigan athletic fund. In other news, call me crazy, but I believe this Michigan story actually broke today. Fist pump! (above the waist) U-M will pay $2.5 million of Rodriguez's $4 million buyout [Detroit Free Press] It's enough money to buy the damn state [mgoblog] ...

THE THREAD [07.10.08] :: Your Hate Makes You Stronger
Published 7/10/2008 by cocknfire at Garnet And Black Attack: Front Page Posts
... Best headline of the day: "It's Enough Money To Buy the Damn State." That's what Brian says of the West Virginia-Michigan peace deal. Brian sees Big Blue as trying to save some money and then figuring out its not worth it. ...

Corn Flakes - November In Norman We'll Party Like It's 1971!
Published 7/10/2008 by corn blight at Corn Nation: Front Page Posts
... Not really Nebraska-related.... but it is about big-time college football.  The fact that Rich Rod and the University of Michigan have to pay $4M back to West Virginia is good for college football, at least in the short term. What you hope is that athletic directors across the nation insist on huge buy-out clauses in their coaches contracts and that will slow down this damned arms race that's going on in Div IA sports. Left unabated sooner or later big-time college football will either collapse under it's own weight with catastrophic implications (ala ...