the 1/1/18 deadline or leavitt gets $3m makes no sense to me. seems like such a stupid date to agree to since it's in the middle of bowl season. maybe it was actually just "before the 2018 season" but mcmurphy keeps saying 1/1/18 specifically.
been thinking more about this. the timeline that mcmurphy is reporting still just doesn't make sense to me. there was no real reason to be looking for a HCIW before snyder found out he had cancer. snyder wasn't retiring any time soon and was planning to return with a "loaded" team. you can argue that currie might have insisted on his own that we start planning to replace bill, but i don't buy that.
as much as currie and snyder disliked each other, i really don't think currie was planning on forcing snyder out any time soon pre-cancer. the cancer is what STARTED this whole thing, not ended it. it was basically an insurance policy in case snyder's cancer got worse and he wouldn't be able to coach in 2017. it was a complete unknown at the time how bad the cancer was.
here's what i think happened: snyder found out he had cancer, told currie, and currie used that information as motivation to reach out to leavitt to let him know and insist that he put the k-state clause in his contract. snyder found out about it, and got extremely pissed and threatened to sue currie and the university for a hipaa violation.
i believe leavitt when he says he wouldn't want to be HCIW, and i don't think that was ever a thing here. that's the only thing he really admitted to. and i'll say it again - the specific detail of the 1/1/18 deadline makes absolutely no sense, which makes me think mcmurphy is getting bad information. no athletic director would offer that in this situation, especially with a team that everyone thinks is going to be good. if you were to make a nyd bowl game, you're not going to make leavitt the head coach before the bowl game.
