expensive to fire him in future seasons, like this one for example.
And that's the only reason I haven't called for Gates to be fired – it's prohibitively expensive. Next year will be the same thing. And the year after that.
We're locked into Gates for at least another 3 seasons, and even then the buyout will be extremely costly to the AD and the football program, since donor $ is finite.
Until then, our only option is this:
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