I think you could have fired for cause and paid nothing but there would have been a court battle there and not worth it so I think 2.5 million is not bad considering by contract he was owed over 5 to be fired without cause.
What I took from it is that the timeline reported as it went wasn't crazy off. To me the messages read that Mullen was the first place Currie was going and maybe a deal could have gotten done if Kelly says yes to Gators. Schiano was clearly the second choice and Currie desperately wanted to get that done on Sunday.
I'm not sure why he was in such a rush. No school was going to steal Schiano out from under him. We don't know what the phone calls were like on Sunday when DiPietro and Currie spoke. Based on emails which included draft releases that were composed on Saturday, they wanted a 4pm Sunday press conference with Mullen or Schiano. Gundy was third on the pecking order.
We knew it at the time and the lack of text/emails back it up that Currie didn't grasp the PR fallout with Schiano and the magnitude of needing a plan to try and sell it/overcome it. A story from a national writer was not enough of a plan.
Moving past Schiano when Gundy said no, feels like some panic started setting in. Currie asks Doeren's agent if they can just fly him to Knoxville then comes back, no that's too fast. Then Currie after interviewing Doeren, who emailed Currie before the search started expressing interest in the job, doesn't reply to Doeren's agent the next morning as he's off to LA. Just seems there was no plan at that point all scramble. And that's when Davenport and DiPietro had enough.
The fact that he told Davenport that he wasn't going to talk to Jubron about the search backs up his wish for privacy but that obviously wasn't a savvy move. He did the same with Charlie Anderson and that decision was a costly one for Currie on that Wednesday before he was called home on Thursday.
Bottom line, Currie was going Mullen first. Then Currie and his small group didn't vet out the PR impact of hiring Schiano. Gundy simply wouldn't come. They probably over thought Doeren as there were texts expressing social media backlash. Not say they should have hired him, but I think Currie talked himself out of hiring Doeren. Then when he couldn't be found for 6 hours. No one on campus knew if Doeren was happening or was dead only to learn Currie had bolted Raleigh for LA. It was at that point, it was over.
Not sure if that all makes sense.
Alot happened in a week, please follow up with any other questions.
