Even if he does, his buyout is currently $20 million and only goes down to $16 million on April 1. Even with how deep Ohio State's pockets are, I can't imagine them paying that plus whatever they have left to pay Holtmann.
I know what you're sayin', but "college" FB and BB are in crazy world now. I could totally imagine tOSU spending $XXmillion on a new coach. In fact, it's not that hard for me to imagine pretty much any big school nowadays spending $XX million on just about anything. I mean, $20M for OSU basketball is sorta, kinda like $76M for Texas A&M football?
And, honest question, who are they/them in cases like this? We talk about how deep OSU's pockets are, but doesn't that just mean there are some filthy wealthy alums who can sell one of their Gulfstreams to buy the next hoops-God coach?