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College Football Buyouts: 5 Head Coaches Whose Contracts Could Complicate a Firing

SI Feed·Joe Cox·15 days ago
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Across the college football landscape, for every happy fan, there's an angry fan. Many of those angry fans want to sever relationships with overpaid, underachieving coaches. But in the words of legendary college football analyst Lee Corso, not so fast. With coaching buyouts in the eight figure realm, some coaches are simply too costly to move on from. Here are five head coaches whose buyouts could provide some last-minute job security.

Dabo Swinney, Clemson

As of last December, USAToday reported Dabo's buyout at $60 million. Swinney is 11-8 over the last season and a half and Clemson feels far gone from his dominant run in the late 2010s. But with the double cost hammer of paying Swinney's buyout and bringing in another high-priced coach, Clemson is stuck with Dabo until it simply has no other option than to take a massive financial hit.

Steve Sarkisian, Texas

Yes, Texas's comeback win over Ole Miss cooled this particular fire-- at least for the moment.…

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