Oh for sure. I mean since the dawn of time, people and organizations do what ever they can to get out of bad contracts. It's clear that MSU is trying to do just that as is Purdue in this case. I mean why pay millions of dollars to get rid of an unwanted employee if you could just not pay them instead? The real question is how legitimate of a legal case do they have? In the MSU case, if the coach was misusing his position, power, and authority in attempt to "trade" a job opportunity for sexual favors as was what was originally alleged, I think there's a fairly good legal argument for MSU (by the way, I do agree with you that some of the facts of the allegations are let's go with questionable based on the alleged victim's released texts). And there's still a lot of question there whether the argument will hold especially with the victim's case being thrown out. In this Purdue case, from a legal perspective, there's going to need to be a lot more released about Walters improprieties for them to have a shot at a "for cause" firing in my opinion. But hey, when millions are on the line, gotta shoot your shot if you're the university.