UTSA disputes ‘payout’ calculation to Larry Coker

SAN ANTONIO — The Larry Coker story has taken a few odd twists in the last several hours.

Here is the latest:

UTSA’s former football coach said in an interview earlier this week that he is due a buyout after being fired, noting succinctly, “They let me go.”

He also said his exit from the university fell under a “termination without cause” section of his contract, which would trigger the payments.

“I had a buyout,” Coker said. “They had to pay me to make a change. Just whatever my contract said, that’s what they had to pay me. It was only fair. They knew that when they let me go.”

UTSA isn’t commenting on Coker’s assertion that he is scheduled to receive the payments.

But university officials are…