So let’s just say it really is true – despite the school denying the ESPN report – that Florida State raised $20 million from donors to help pay off Willie Taggart’s contract.
It’s getting sort of blown off as no big deal and the cost of doing business – no matter how Taggart is getting paid out – but that’s an astronomical amount of money just to help get rid of a football coach who would’ve likely been more than fine with time and another recruiting class or two to build up the O line.
To put this insane aspect of our world into some sort of perspective, if private donors, or anyone, had taken that $20 million and instead wanted Taggart to enter the race to be the Democratic candidate for president, he’d have ranked fourth in fund raising over the latest round behind just Steyer, Bernie and Liz.
It was easier to find the money to get rid of a football coach than it was for Cory Booker, Amy Kloubuchar, Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro combined to fund their respective campaigns from July through September.
Or, instead of paying off the bad contract of an already generational-wealthy football coach, that coin could’ve paid the tuition for around 800 Florida kids to go to FSU for four years.
