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I had a hard time figuring out what was going on from the article but it makes it sound like we screwed him.

Well, the article indicates that at the time of the firing Stanford and Dawkins agreed to settle all the outstanding contract by Stanford paying Dawkins $2.3 million and Dawkins would drop any further claims against Stanford.
Once Dawkins was hired by UCF it says that Stanford decided that the clause in the contract that says if somebody else hires Dawkins it reduces what Stanford owes was still active. Dawkins says no way - that was what the settlement was about.

I suspect somebody here probably works on such things for a living, and could give us a deeper sense of what is probably going on.

My one general opinion is a top-flight school like Stanford should not take chances on coaches without DI head coaching experience. 

Yeah, it's a good thing we didn't take a chance on that Harbaugh guy.
Or that Shaw guy.

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I had a hard time figuring out what was going on from the article but it makes it sound like we screwed him.

Well, the article indicates that at the time of the firing Stanford and Dawkins agreed to settle all the outstanding contract by Stanford paying Dawkins $2.3 million and Dawkins would drop any further claims against Stanford.
Once Dawkins was hired by UCF it says that Stanford decided that the clause in the contract that says if somebody else hires Dawkins it reduces what Stanford owes was still active. Dawkins says no way - that was what the settlement was about.

I suspect somebody here probably works on such things for a living, and could give us a deeper sense of what is probably going on.

My one general opinion is a top-flight school like Stanford should not take chances on coaches without DI head coaching experience. 

Yeah, it's a good thing we didn't take a chance on that Harbaugh guy.
Or that Shaw guy.