BOULDER — If you got heartburn watching former Colorado football coach Mike MacIntyre walk away from the storm with his framed bison under one arm and $10.3 million under the other, imagine the indigestion they’re feeling down in Louisville right about now.
The Cardinals fired Bobby Petrino on Nov. 11. And handed him $14.1 million as a going-away gift.
“I’m sure we’ve been shaking our heads now for some time,” chuckled Chuck Neinas, the Boulder-based athletics consultant and a longtime mover-and-shaker in big-time college sports, when asked about buyouts. “It’s just the price of doing business.