Usually, the months of December and January in college football are about championships or contract purchases. Every year, there is a segment of the sports community that is in a position to win and win big, while others are spending a lot of money to start all over again with the hope of better days in the future.
South Carolina and Texas recently spent tens of millions of dollars when they fired their top coaches, Will Muschamp and Tom Herman, respectively. In addition to paying the terminated principal coaches the money owed for the remainder of their contracts, assistant coaches must also pay.
A college football coach fired in 2020, however, refused to accept school compensation allowed by his contract.
Former Utah State coach Gary Andersen, who was fired in November after the Aggies’ 0-3 season began, will not accept any money from the university purchase, according to Deseret News columnist Doug Robinson. Andersen had three more years left on the contract he signed in 2018, which amounted to $ 900,000 a year, which means that he failed to receive a payment of $ 2.7 million.
Robinson wrote that while Andersen did not like to comment publicly on his decision, he was able to confirm it through two sources. The columnist wrote: “He doesn’t think he will train again, but he will probably do some camps and work with young people. He said several times that he had nothing but good wishes for the state of Utah and its football program, and he was sincere. And that was it. “
According to Robinson’s column, “Andersen actually signed a separation agreement at the end of the year, releasing the USU from its obligation to continue paying his salary until the end of the contract.”
But this was not the first time Andersen left money on the table.
“When he abruptly left the Oregon State coach in the middle of the 2017 season, four years from the end of his contract (with a one-year extension), he stopped paying $ 12.6 million,” Robinson wrote. “According to a former OSU employee, Andersen resigned because he no longer believed that his team was capable and that, in order to succeed, he would have to start over entirely with an entirely new team; this was not an attractive option. “
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Andersen and Oregon State Athletic Director Scott Barnes, who ironically held the same position in Utah while Andersen was there, mutually agreed to split up when it was decided that Andersen would not succeed in Oregon. But, as he would do years later in the state of Utah, Andersen signed an agreement that exempted OSU from the obligation to buy the coach’s contract.