So to wrap things up in a nutshell:

[mattropolis]

1) He retired with a few games left so we could start putting out feelers. He knew this was it.
2) He stepped down from interim AD job when the real search for an AD began.
3) There isn't, nor ever was any "coach in waiting" language in O'Leary's contract.

Thanks to so many for being completely off-base and well, just wrong about not only how O'Leary has always carried himself but how UCF conducts business as a football program. This has played out exactly how any big-time program would and should conduct business. Now they'll conduct a nationwide search for our next coach, just like we were going to do all along. Some day our fans will grow up as well.

 

[cmhatter]

::waiting for OP to modify post after seeing UCF owes Brent Key $700,000::

 

[Black&GoldKnight]

Number 3....... $700,000 in Keys pockets says youre wrong there

 

[ucfversusbcs]

suck it @mattropolis oh btw*

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...rent-key-not-naming-coach-20151025-story.html

 

[cmhatter]

This isn't going to go well for mattropolis

 

[Poolside Knight]

1) He retired with a few games left so we could start putting out feelers. He knew this was it.
2) He stepped down from interim AD job when the real search for an AD began.
3) There isn't, nor ever was any "coach in waiting" language in anybodies contract.

Thanks to so many for being completely off-base and well, just wrong about not only how O'Leary has always carried himself but how UCF conducts business as a football program. This has played out exactly how any big-time program would and should conduct business. Now they'll conduct a nationwide search for our next coach, just like we were going to do all along. Some day our fans will grow up as well.

just quit while you are behind

 

[PITB0SS]

ugh. why could "Brent Key" get a buy out like that!?!?! This is sad for UCF.

jeesk mattropolis, you're wrong again

 

[mattropolis]

Key could have taken a higher paying job (as a head coach or something else) but stayed here instead (like it or not). That clause was probably added to compensate him for that choice. I don't know if that is a somewhat standard clause that has been used for OCs. I'm not going to take the time to research it.

I've worked on large DoD programs most of my professional career and we have found all kinds of creative ways to put work on contract. This was creative if it is counted not as compensstion but as some other "bucket" of money.

 

[mattropolis]

::waiting for OP to modify post after seeing UCF owes Brent Key $700,000::

Modified. Thanks for your feedback.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

Key could have taken a higher paying job (as head coach at UAB) but stayed here instead (like it or not). That clause was probably added to compensate him for that choice. I don't know if that is a somewhat standard clause that has been used for OCs. I'm not going to take the time to research it.

Just take what you said back and edit the post. You sound like GOL.*

 

[Poolside Knight]

ugh. why could "Brent Key" get a buy out like that!?!?! This is sad for UCF.

jeesk mattropolis, you're wrong again

Seriously he had zero experience as a coordinator and his first chance at it was a disaster.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

Seriously he had zero experience as a coordinator and his first chance at it was a disaster.

He should be pissed at GOL since it was his decision to move him there but hey he got a $700k buyout so yay for extortion.

 

[mattropolis]

Seriously he had zero experience as a coordinator and his first chance at it was a disaster.

Not advocating for Key or anybody else...just dismayed at how so many think we conduct business like we're some D3 program, when in the end we did everything as it should be done by a big program. So they made some compensation deal in Key's contract. Lot's of schools are paying lots of coaches who aren't there any longer. There was never anything gauranteeing him the job and that is all that matters. He will not be retained when the next staff comes in.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

Not advocating for Key or anybody else...just dismayed at how so many think we conduct business like we're some D3 program, when in the end we did everything as it should be done by a big program. So they made some compensation deal in Key's contract. Lot's of schools are paying lots of coaches who aren't there any longer. There was never anything gauranteeing him the job and that is all that matters. He will not be retained when the next staff comes in.

Yet you continue to stand by your original post flawed information and all.

 

[mattropolis]

This isn't going to go well for mattropolis

I like pain! It's a message board...i hope nobody actually gets upset about anything said on here. If they do, that is their problem. We're all just fans with different mindsets and different life experiences. It's so easy to rile people up on boards as well.