Old Balls doesn't have a "lifetime" contract worth $2 million a year.
He can make over $2 million with his bonuses as the head coach, but if he steps down from coaching and stays with K-State athletics, he gets paid $150k a year. Plus he can be dismissed, and I think that will cost K-State $1 million, I'd have to go back and re-read the contract but I think that's right.
His current contract has a lot more "with the written permission of the Athletic Director" clauses in it than his previous contracts ever dreamed of having.
As far as taking risks are concerned . . . I would have much rather have had Krause up to his old tricks of his Colbert Hills deal days in getting facilities built rather than having him conjuring up dumbass contracts for coaches. That's what I thought they guy would be doing and that's why at first I was perfectly fine with him being made the AD . . . I had no idea (as I am sure most didn't either) that he was capable of being that stupid in regards to a coaching contract . . . and no, the contract extension in and of itself was no big deal whatsoever, it was obviously the rest that was a big deal.