To everybody, you're all hitting it on the head.
The contract blows, the school wants him out, he wants out, everybody and their brother wants him out but he isn't going to walk away from that money and if he gets fired, he'll go the Randy route and will never heard from again in the head coaching ranks. Randy's football accomplishments were a lot more impressive Golden's and he's coaching linebackers for a 6-6 (2-8) team. There's so much red tape to it with the administration turnover as well.
The money they lose is going to just compound the money that they're paying which is why they're in desperation mode with all these, "Just Hold For Next Year," comments. They want to cushion the money loss as best as possible.
In the wildest dream of the administration, they never would have guessed that the program would have collapsed this year like it did. They were led to believe this was going to be a 10 win season. That's their own fault, again, and they will pay the incredibly steep price for it as they should and more.
As far as Butch goes, there's a chance and there will always be a chance until further notice. That's all I got until school starts back up.