At 93 years young, Chuck Neinas has watched colleges burn money on football since Bunny Oakes was hopping on the sidelines at CU.

But he’s never seen a bonfire like this before. Penn State, LSU, Florida, Arkansas, UCLA and Oregon State have all fired their football coaches before Halloween. ESPN.com published a report on Tuesday estimating contract buyouts for fired Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) coaches are up to roughly $168 million so far.

“There used to be (scenarios where) you got a four-year deal (to coach),” Neinas, the former Big 12 and Big Eight commissioner who calls Boulder County home, told The Denver Post. “They’d stay with you four years. Because the first year, you can forget it. The second year, you think, you’d see some improvements. The third year, you should be a winn

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