On the surface, the only thing more absurd than a public university paying its football coach millions of dollars a year is a public university paying its football coach $11 million to go away.
University of Wisconsin officials are preparing to write that eight-figure check to ousted coach Paul Chryst. In announcing the deal, the Badgers took pains to point out that $11 million is much less than the $20 million remaining on Chryst’s contract, and the money will come not from taxpayers but from private funds.
So, presumably, Wisconsinites from Kenosha north to Superior can rest easy knowing the brass drove a hard bargain and tapped into a handy slush fund.
