College football’s coaching buyout culture just might be headed for a reckoning. Legendary coach Mack Brown thinks he knows why. After Penn State fired James Franklin last weekend, they triggered a staggering $50 million buyout that ranks second only to Jimbo Fisher’s $76 million. And now, the college football world is starting to ask a simple question: how can schools keep paying coaches not to coach when they’re already hemorrhaging money to keep players on the roster through NIL?

Brown, who wrapped up his second stint at North Carolina with a modest $2.89 million buyout, sees the writing on the wall. And he might be the only coach in America who’s been calling this mess exactly what it is for years.

Brown said it straight on The Stampede podcast when discussing where coaching co

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