Whether or not Bret Bielema and Jeff Long get employed will not reduce the buyouts by much. With his horrible record, no major college will hire Bret Bielema as a head coach. The best we can hope for is that some small college hires him as a head coach or else he gets hired as a top assistant. In either event, he will not earn more and certainly not much more than $1 million per year and, considering how he became fat and lazy, most likely he will not make an effort to get employed.
And, considering how much he messed up at the UofA, Jeff Long will have to take a big pay cut. And certainly I haven’t heard any rumors that any college is seeking to hire Bret Bielema or Jeff Long.
Basically, in addition the what they have already been paid, that will be almost $20 million down the drain by foolish UofA and foundation administrators that have far more money than sense.