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I'm surprised it was so fast. He could have taken his time.

It's been 2 months since there was a vacancy and he needed a job.  Plenty of time.  IMO. 

They also negotiated the buyout from $49 million to $9 million, but waiving the offset

Could you explain or provide a link?

Whose buyout, which way?

Blacksburg is a good place fan base is rousing also.Just haven't had much to pull for - much like Browns Fans

You and @SuperMario and a few others might appreciate this:

I grew up in the Cleveland area.  I was thinking about it a while back in reference to something on here and I really wasn't much of a cfb fan until I started at Ohio State in the fall of 1993. I was always an Ohio State guy but I was just a LOT more interested in the Browns.

Well, I realized something.  The Browns were actually better than the Buckeyes when I was growing up. That sounds INSANE given how woeful the Browns have been and how good the Buckeyes have been but hear me out:

I was born in 1975 so I have no personal recollection of any of Woody's teams and I was too young to be interested in Ohio State's NC near miss in 1979.

I turned 5 before the 1980 football season and the Browns had their best run of the last 60+ years in the 1980s when I was 5-14. They made the playoffs seven times in those 10 years including five straight years from 1985-1989. That five year run included three AFC Championship games including one at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (the Drive).

When the Browns won the AFC Central Division in 1989 it was their fourth Division Championship in five years and their fifth straight playoff appearance. In the ~35 years since they've only made four playoff appearances and that 1989 AFC Central Championship remains the most recent for the franchise.

The great run by the Browns in the 1980s coincided with the most pedestrian decade the Buckeyes have had since probably the 1930s. After almost winning the NC in his first season upon taking over from Woody, Earle Bruce led the Buckeyes to a 9-3 record every year for six straight years then went 10-3 when they played an extra game in 1986. That was capped by middling years in the transition from Bruce to Cooper.

I think he's talking about Franklin.  He had an off-set, essentially he was required to "look" for work, and if he found a job whatever the new job paid would be off-set from what PSU owed him.  Looks like instead they just gave him $9 MM and they both told each other to F off. 

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You and @SuperMario and a few others might appreciate this:

I grew up in the Cleveland area.  I was thinking about it a while back in reference to something on here and I really wasn't much of a cfb fan until I started at Ohio State in the fall of 1993. I was always an Ohio State guy but I was just a LOT more interested in the Browns.

Well, I realized something.  The Browns were actually better than the Buckeyes when I was growing up. That sounds INSANE given how woeful the Browns have been and how good the Buckeyes have been but hear me out:

I was born in 1975 so I have no personal recollection of any of Woody's teams and I was too young to be interested in Ohio State's NC near miss in 1979.

I turned 5 before the 1980 football season and the Browns had their best run of the last 60+ years in the 1980s when I was 5-14. They made the playoffs seven times in those 10 years including five straight years from 1985-1989. That five year run included three AFC Championship games including one at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (the Drive).

When the Browns won the AFC Central Division in 1989 it was their fourth Division Championship in five years and their fifth straight playoff appearance. In the ~35 years since they've only made four playoff appearances and that 1989 AFC Central Championship remains the most recent for the franchise.

The great run by the Browns in the 1980s coincided with the most pedestrian decade the Buckeyes have had since probably the 1930s. After almost winning the NC in his first season upon taking over from Woody, Earle Bruce led the Buckeyes to a 9-3 record every year for six straight years then went 10-3 when they played an extra game in 1986. That was capped by middling years in the transition from Bruce to Cooper.

This is really interesting on a lot of levels:
1) Just to go back and think about the 80's Browns. They were electric on so many levels and the NFL was a different league and time in pro sports. So many of the Browns players were on the team in the fall and worked normal jobs in the off-season so it made them more relatable humans. My cousin and my aunt lived in Brook Park in a condo project and a couple doors down from Eddie Johnson. He would always come out and play catch with the kids and was simply an awesome dude. He was also far from wealthy. Imagine an NFL player in the league for 10 years not being wealthy? From that, we as a family were lucky to meet a lot of the players back then because of it.

2) Really interesting to hear your dynamic of the strength of your Browns fanhood, especially during the down times of OSU because that is a similar reflection of a lot of people becoming strong Indians fans when the Browns dipped and the timing was electric there as well. As much as it was a slugfest as a Cleveland sports fan that had a lot of heartbreak, there has also been a decent ride if you were a Browns, Indians, Buckeye, Cavs fan.. Browns in the 80's and despite the heartbreak of the 90's and disappearing it lead the Indians amazing teams of the 90's and then from their ownership sale and cheapskate dolan's leading to their fall off, the Buckeyes then picked up in the early 2000's to heal that and win a title.. Buckeyes have been pretty strong since, but had a couple tough championship moments but that's when lebron was starting to make some runs in Cleveland. 

Cleveland fans have not had an abundance of titles, but there's been at least one good team to really dive into for the last 40 years.. definitely not the Browns since returning in '99 but the Buckeyes have certainly filled that gap for a long time.