It's amazing to me that Ron gave Danny an $18 million fully guaranteed buyout when there were no potential suitors trying to take him away. Like, why? I'd understand if he was having insane success at Wake and we were afraid a bigger school would poach him, but that wasn't even remotely the case.
Moreover, DM lost leverage when WF lost the 4 early season games last year before the contract was signed. This message board was calling for DM to be fired and recruits had not yet signed LOIs. Most people thought the contract was announced to save the recruits from de-committing, and probably contained language protecting WF with a cheap buyout.