Jessica Smetana

It's not like it's Alabama.

Yeah.

which is something you probably shouldn't say if you coach at UAB.

But yeah, the James Franklin thing is shocking.

I was less shocked when I found out his buyout's not like a $50 million lump sum payment, which some of them are.

So they're going to be able to pay it out over a few years.

And there's been a lot of conversation about this duty to mitigate clause in his buyout, which means that if he gets another job, the money will offset.

But that's pretty standard among college coaching contracts.

Mike, I don't know if Mario's got one of those.

You probably know more contract details than us laypeople, but it's going to be interesting what the appetite is for hiring him at another coaching job, too, because he's also someone that I think a lot of fans of non-Penn State teams

maybe even including Penn State the last couple weeks.

They've been clowning him for a long time for his reputation of not being able to win a big game.

Now, I have seen a number of Wisconsin fans say, we don't even care who it is.

Just get Luke Fickle out of here.

And this may, in fact, be Luke Fickle's last game coaching Wisconsin because they have had a terrible season.

He has not been fired yet, and they play Ohio State on Saturday.

I'm not sure what the spread is there, but I imagine it's like five touchdowns.

So

So I'm curious to see if he does get another head coaching job or if he does broadcasting or what.

But I think the buyout number, we'll just kind of have to wait and see what that ends up being.