South Carolina president reveals school reached out to FSU to ask about handling Willie Taggart's buyout
Update: Later Monday night, President Caslen recanted the comments below in a statement.
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With South Carolina sitting at 4-7 with only a game against Clemson remaining, a disappointing 4-8 final record is likely.
However, in recent days, both AD Ray Tanner and school president Robert Caslen have offered their support to coach Will Muschamp.
But, on Monday, Caslen spoke with SCNow.com and said Tanner has reached out to Florida State to ask how the Seminoles came up with the money to pay for fired coach Willie Taggart’s $18 million buyout:
“No, but our athletic director (Ray Tanner) has,” Caslen said during an interview session at the Morning News. “And they’ve got a whole lot more money in their athletic endowment than we do. I know that, for a fact.
“Listen, for the record, (Muschamp) is my coach, period. And he’ll remain my coach, just for the record. If you look at the athletic director’s statement (from Saturday), that’s the same that I endorse.”
Muschamp’s buyout is a hefty $19.4 million right now and $18.8 million after Dec. 31.
Caslen continues to speak about the situation, making headlines each time. At some point, it’s worth asking what he hopes to gain by speaking about Muschamp’s future so often.
Sounds like coach Boom is gonna get the boot. I’m sure he will have enough to eat and live on for long time.
This does not bode well for Boom. He’s a good guy but not an head coach.
He is loyal to his players. Or atleast to Jake Bentley. I’ll give him that much
Ouch.
Please tell me this is fake news.
I doubt Scar is in the red like FSU athletics were (are?). FSU had to go to the Boosters hat in hand BEFORE they fired ol’Willie and handed him $20,000,000, they recieved a six million dollar “donation” back in May just to keep the lights on. This was after FSU athletics reported being in the red 3 million dollar. So word of advice to ya’ll cocks fans, the absolute last people on earth you want your Athletics Department talking to is anyone affiliated with FSU…
Will received $6 Million…as I recall from Florida, when fired & $19 Million from the Cocks…Gosh…what a retirement! Not bad fora Genuinely FAILED HEAD COACH.
Wow, a failure is a multi millionaire. Scratch my head
See ya Boom
The GangClux are desperate ! They can’t stand the fact that Clemson is on top of the college football world both on and off the field.They are probably thinking, “geee if we can only pull a rabbit out of or hat and find a way to beat Clemson on Nov. 30 and pull off the biggest upset in college football history our school president is going to treat us to an ice cream party” .
Looks like a fishing expedition to guage interest from other teams/programs/schools. Sounds like the president is feeling the heat from alumni and boosters.