Don't they still owe Gill 3 years of his contract, counting this year? If they fired Weis after this season, they would be paying Gill, Weis, and whoever else they could actually afford. No wonder these guys can never get improvements to their stadium off the ground.
IIRC Gill had to get paid the rest of his money within 60 days or 90 days or something. Greatest contract ever.
it was 120 days. the contract part of his wiki page is lolsville...
Termination and Contract Controversy This section's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. (September 2012)
A review of nine other Big 12 coaches’ contracts — as a private institution Baylor is not required to release such information and the contract of Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville was not available — showed that most coaches would suffer a financial penalty for terminating the contract. Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman, for example, would owe the Aggies $1.8 million (his annual salary) for leaving before his contract expires, just as Gill did when he had to pay the University at Buffalo $200,000 for taking the job at Kansas. KU Athletics paid that. Gill’s current contract did not include such a penalty.
Of the nine contracts available, six were written with language more favorable to the university than Gill’s. Not surprisingly, the University of Texas and Oklahoma University stand to save the most via buyouts should they ever elect to dump football coaches Mack Brown or Bob Stoops before the end of their contracts. In addition, Oklahoma State would save 25 percent of its contract with coach Mike Gundy should OSU can Gundy without cause and Iowa State would save nearly 50 percent if the Cyclones hand Paul Rhoads his walking papers.
Why Gill’s contract was written in such a one-sided manner is puzzling, especially given he was making less than $500,000 a year at Buffalo. Optimists would say former KU Athletic Director Lew Perkins was so convinced Gill would upgrade the football program that he did not see the need to include language that is pretty standard in college coaching contracts. Perkins was terminated shortly after signing the contract amid a number of scandals.
Pessimists would question the competence of KU athletics, which just went through a messy divorce with Mangino. Because there was no buyout in place, Perkins had to launch an investigation into Mangino’s coaching tactics in order to scare the coach into thinking KU could fire him with cause. That put Mangino in the mood to negotiate and led to a $3 million settlement.[14]
University of Kansas head football coach Turner Gill's departure was a costly one. The university owed coach Gill nearly $6 million, money that was due in just 120 days. [15]
Despite calls to resign and forfeit the remaining funds given his dismal performance, and as a demonstration of integrity and personal responsibility, he refused and the university was forced to tap boosters to pay out the remainder of his contract.
