re: Top frauds as football HCs. #1 is easy

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I get this in one way, but any time you pay someone $76 million dollars to not coach your team anymore, insinuates that you were sold a false bill of goods and thus, he was a fraud.

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I know the rant loves to get hung up on the buyout, it’s triple the 2nd place buyout or whatever, but a number is just a number. He was fired because we didn’t think he would get us to where we needed to be, and it was easier to cut bait quicker. As fan support dies out/disinterest in the program, it might have costed more to keep him in the long run.

All that to say, the guy you quoted is spot on. Someone with a Natty, multiple BCS bowl wins, numerous 10+ win seasons isn’t a fraud. He had a sustained level of success…. Just not at our school and we didn’t see it in the future, so we let him go. Jimbo being #1 is just recency bias and very shortsighted. And I say all this not a fan of Jimbo and am glad he’s gone from our program.