At a time when universities are doing all that they can to cut back on budgets so that they arent losing money year aftetr year, one has to wondrer if the large salaries that college head coaches make should be reeduced in order to help with the cut backs. Most recently Oklahoma Head Coach Jeff Capel was fired at OU for a number of differnt reason. Reasons that stemmed far beyond his dismal 2009-2010 team record. Capels team faced classroom issues that put several of Capels players in jeopardy of being kicked out of school. His players also faced off the court issues that included run ins with the law on several occasions. In addition Capel was not seeing eye to eye with the current athletics director on the direction that the program should go. As a result Capel was fired after the 2009-2010 season...
Now i have been fired from a job before ( let me know if you want to know why i was fired), as a result I received one more pay check as well as my vacation time and I was sent onmy way. Jeff Capel got fired and he received a 1.75 million dollare buy out.... I am smart enough to understand how contracts work, but shouldnt a contract be null and void when a person fails to meet the standards that are layed out in that particular contract. Maybe universities should consider writing contracts where if a Head Coach is fired for performance issues they are payed less in their buyout agrement. 1.75 million seems like alot of money to pay one person who didnt do the jobn you hired him for especially when your paying the new coach 1.2 million in the same year.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7214108/jeff-capel-got-175m-buyout-oklahoma-sooners
Chris
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