Better job huh? You think any potential coaches and their agents will consider the fact you've just fired the 2007 National Coach of the Year two years removed? Or perhaps the fact that ku witheld damning information gathered over the years only to launch a financially motivated witch hunt (Mike Leach's words not mine)? You see coaches kind of hold those buyouts as sacred. It's their sense of financial security which would lure them from other jobs.
You had a very good coach and you fired him. The guy is 3 wins shy of being the all-time winningest coach in ku history. He took your program to new heights and ku dumped him at the first sign of adversity. Yeah, they'll be lining up for the job.