Coaches that are unproven as capable of winning big time college conference championships or making it to the college playoffs should not be offered deals as though they have accomplished that. Obviously, the athletic directors who made these deals are to blame. It is not the salaries that are a problem for us. The problem is these ridiculous buy out terms that their lawyers seem to have no problem getting our (and most other ADs across the country) to agree to.
Now, there will be those who say, "they would not have signed a deal without that". I'm not so sure, and, if you're write then, ok, just tell them to go away then. Go and find you a high school coach who has won a bunch of state championships, offer him $500,000 a year, offer to increase that 8x if he wins the SEC, offer ZERO buy out. That would have just as much of a chance of winning the SEC than these stupid deals would and it would be the proper way to handle the taxpayer's money of the great state of Tennessee.