[Cactus Jack]

His buyout is $33.38 Million. I’m sure Kentucky can come up with that….

I’m ready for a damn change in Lexington.

I was telling my buddy that he done good throughout his early stages of his career at UK and got them right where he wanted them when they offered him a lifetime contract and now he doesn’t give a shit because he knows he’s gonna get paid one way or another.

I actually don't think that the school could come up with $33 million. It's doubtful that those kinds of funds are just locked away in a vault in the AD'S office or sitting in an account and not earmarked for something else.

This will probably provide some perspective. These are currently the highest paid coaches and roughly how many million they are getting per year (this season):

1. Self - $9.625
2. Calipari - $8.53 ($9.0 next year)
3. Izzo - $6.196
4. Pearl - $5.716
5. Barnes - $5.700
6. Drew - $5.100
7. Hurley - $5.000
8. Underwood - $4.700
9. Sampson - $4.610
10. Oats - $4.530


Cal is the 2nd highest paid coach in the nation. We'd owe him 75% of his contract if we fired him. 75% of what he'd have been owed this season is still enough to make him the 2nd highest paid coach (Izzo makes ~72% of what he does).

For $33 million, UK could theoretically hire a staff of: Hurley, Self, and Drew (otherwise known as the last three coaches to win a title) and still have over $12 million remaining.

Again, keep in mind that all of this is before you even consider the money we'd have to spend to get someone better.