Jessica Smetana
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OK, give me another guess.
Former father, former ESPN employee, son played college football, was an analyst at Alabama for a long time, was on the UAB staff.
Thank you.
It's a fun game.
Billy loves the guessing game.
Billy, you guess.
You love the guessing game.
Sorry, I was hardly listening to you.
Trent Dilfer's record was 9-21, Dan, at UAB.
And he also, like Mike said, made a lot of jerky comments, like when he had his grandson join him in a press conference and then was like, what?
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