I get what you're saying, it's all relative though man. Yeah, I'd LOVE a $4 million dollar severanace package, sure, b/c I make nowhere near that. Marrone was making over 1 MILLION at Syracuse as a coach and was making MILLIONS at Buffalo. $4 Million isn't THAT much when you've already been making Millions. It's relative. And others keep saying this will be his "last chance" at a payday. Really? Is he 90? He's a coach, not a player. He could go coach Rutgers or Syracuse 3 years from now and go back to making more than a Million a year if he wanted to.
Reality is, he's a quitter and didn't want to be here anymore. There are people that when the going gets tough, they either hunker down, or they get going. Marrone appears to be the latter.