According to GA, the buyout will be paid over 5 years.
"His contract will pay him $1.15-million a year for five years, which works to $850,000 less per year than Skip Holtz was making. USF will be paying his $500,000 buyout to Western Kentucky, so that works to an additional $100,000 per year, but it's worth noting that he will keep the same staff for his assistants as Holtz: $1.9-million, which should allow him to surround himself with solid recruiters as an extension of his own coaching philosophy."
http://www.tampabay....ars-575-million
For a minute I thought I was crazy. Someone said we were paying him 1.9 million and I was like
Hopefully with only 1.15 mill if we need to bump up the pool to get a solid DC we can afford to.