I have a new mission and I need all of you to help me. If you see anyone on this board or on Twitter try to tell you we can't afford the buyout for oscar, which is dirt cheap, almost certainly the cheapest in the Big 12, please tell them they are wrong. It's actually the opposite, we can't afford not to buy him out.
I don't know if people think the athletic department works like a bodega, but every large school athletic department budget has room for buyouts. Last fiscal year we nearly had a $90 million dollar budget as an athletic department. If we don't get a penny from a donor for the buyout, they simply make room in other places in the budget. We don't need to take out a payday loan because we only have $230 in the cash register.
Now what being strapped with the budget can hurt is how much we pay the next guy. Although I don't think we're hurting as badly as some think.
We'll see what happens with Gene's list, but the next guy will be the gauge of how cash strapped we are, not the buyout.