Nice blog on buyouts by Veazey. This line in it is just sad.

[patdog]

<font face="Georgia" size="2"><font face="Georgia" size="2">The rise is best illustrated in State's deal with Tulane. When the original contract was signed on July 10, 1998, it was actually typewritten.</font></font>

<font face="Georgia" size="2">Nice to see that the Ninja is putting some pretty significant buyouts in these contracts.</font>

 

[Original48]

"It's all designed to ensure that what happened to State in 2008 doesn't happen again. Prior to that season, Central Michigan backed out of a handshake deal to play State in a two-for-one, leaving the school in a tough spot to fill games. That helped spawn home-and-home deals with Louisiana Tech and Middle Tennessee State."

Can't you just picture 'ol Lar..."Hell son, we don't need no paperwork! Put 'er there!"

 

[patdog]

With a handshake deal, as Larry found out, the buyout is $0.

 

[vhdawg]

...is why Tulane's not on the schedule anymore for 2011-13. No wonder they were willing to go shop for greener pastures.

 

[beachbumdawg]

i mean the schools that got bent over on the buyout know that now....which makes negotiations for future games more difficult

 

[vhdawg]

And will be so long as it's the athletic department in charge of scheduling.

 

[Todd4State]

wasn't expecting LSU to pull out of their 10 year deal. I bet they wished they had kept the deal now. We would give them at least one high attendance game.

And as far as the typewriter, I guess LT had Polk write up the contracts for him.