Anyone who honestly think Kevin Patrick's buyout is anything more than $1M, or even half that, is trippin. Dudes a ******* DL coach, he's not a HC or a Coordinator, or even and Associate HC or Assistant HC. Secondly what agent/lawyer would have his coach sign a contract that makes it financially impossible to go to a better job?
And by the way NCStates HC only has a buyout of $1.68M this year and it reduces to $840k next year. So seriously, anyone who believes Kevin Patrick's buyout is even 25% of his HC's would make his buyout <$500k. **** no way his buyout is even more than his actual salary for that year. And the $750k increase Doren got for his assistants also is used for the 10th assistant. The 10th assistant they hired was Associate HC/Co-DC Ted Roof who was DC for GTech. So No way in **** that doesn't cost at least $350k, and thats on the low end of what it likely was given Roof was making ******* $800k/yr at GTech. So that $750k gets reduced to $400k for the other 9 assistants to get a raise...So max Patricks contract would have increased is maybe $50k max pushing it to $400k.
Kevin Patrick at most is going to have a buyout <$400k. And **** we wouldn't even necessarily need to give him a raise - we're a better school, Miami is a better place to live, its his alma mater, and theres no state income tax in Florida, which will save him at least like $25k/yr from living in North Carolina. If we assume we give him a small raise and pay him $425k/yr and he had a buyout of $400k, that means it would cost us $2.9M/5yrs to get him - or essentially $580k/yr... Certainly in our price range
Basically, If Kevin Patrick is the guy we want, we'll get him.