This is exactly what happened in the situation with Huggins and Weiser.
Think of all the money we saved though! We were able to buy saddles and spurs for our entire equestrian team, furnish our baseball post-season awards banquet with plaques and framed jerseys for graduating seniors and get a year's supply of Ace wrap for the track team!
This is a particular issue with me. OB would rant and rave when he was re-hired, using mentoring (which I don't object to, by the way) and the equestrian team as his talking points with the media. What really "grinds my gears," as Peter Griffin would say, is that his daughter was on the equestrian team, and he was talking about how unappreciated and lacking resources that program was. OB came back with a $1.85 million salary - use some of that money to fund the freakin' equestrian team, you know? If it's really a priority, after all.