[Goose]

Gotta believe there's more to this story than has been stated.  When your athletic department is running a $20M budget deficit and you are looking at cutting multiple sports, you don't add $2M+ to that unless you really had no choice.

Adding to the total speculation, they may have waited to fire Yikes because they have some actions that they can say are firing for cause. No $2M+ involved in that case. The strange timing could be related to that. I almost can't believe it could be that they worked out a deal with Kelley in just a week. That is pretty quick, UNLESS there was some previous discussions. If there were, the plot really thickens.

[Goose]

Gotta believe there's more to this story than has been stated.  When your athletic department is running a $20M budget deficit and you are looking at cutting multiple sports, you don't add $2M+ to that unless you really had no choice.

Adding to the total speculation, they may have waited to fire Yikes because they have some actions that they can say are firing for cause. No $2M+ involved in that case. The strange timing could be related to that. I almost can't believe it could be that they worked out a deal with Kelley in just a week. That is pretty quick, UNLESS there was some previous discussions. If there were, the plot really thickens.