Hate to have to remind angry UCLA fans following their basketball team's humiliating season-ending defeat Wednesday night against USC, but Coach Steve Alford won't be fired this year.
Or next year.
Or the year after that.
If you care enough about UCLA basketball to demand a coaching change, then you know UCLA would have to pay Alford $10.6 million if they fired him before April 30.
Here's the part you might not remember: Alford's buyout will decrease every year, but only slightly — to $7.8 million in 2017 and $5.2 million in 2018.
That's a lot of money for a public university in a financially troubled state such as California.