'My colleagues and I are still in shock.' 32 majors marked for elimination at WVU

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26. "Neal Brown is in his fifth year as the head coach at West Virginia."

Neal Brown’s West Virginia Contract: What’s Neal Brown’s Buyout if Fired?

West Virginia athletics director Shane Lyons was fired in November 2022 because of “the football situation,” Lyons said two weeks after his dismissal.

“The football situation” was, more specifically, a two-year contract extension signed by head coach Neal Brown in April 2021.

The extension might be the only reason Lyons was fired after a five-win 2022 season — the program’s fourth straight season with six or fewer wins, all under Brown — and Brown survived the college football hot seat.

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His salary for 2023 is $4 million — up from $3.5 million in 2022 — and increases by $1 million in each of the next two years before a $2-million raise in 2026:

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https://sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/college-football/neal-browns-contract-buyout-west-virginia-bm01/

It looks like the football coach is set to "earn" about $16.7 million from 2023-2026, and he apparently (according to the article) is under contract until 2026. Further, it seems that they are set to give him a raise of $2 million after 2026 if they give him a new contract.

How many linguists, English professors, and mathematicians could be employed by trimming the fat from the football program or perhaps by simply eliminating the football team? What is a university's purpose after all--the education of students and scholars or the fielding a football team?