One does not need a paragraph up top reminding them of the sticky situations WVU has found itself in regarding contracts in recent years…a few words will do. Dakich. Beilein. Rodriguez. Buffalo. Central Florida.

To review: Dakich never signed one, Beilein negotiated a buyout settlement, Rodriguez is embarrassing himself and Buffalo and UCF backed out of football game contracts and tried to ignore buyouts, but eventually paid.

WVU is to accept blame maybe once, though does anyone really hold feet to the fire over the Dakich exit? Things turned out rather nicely, don’t you think? Beilein had a good argument, WVU can’t help that Rodriguez thinks he can win and, to be honest, the administration was really trying to collect from Buffalo and UCF, who were all screwed up by external factors.

So sometimes contracts are just crazy. Consider — and please, do not worry about — the lifetime contract signed May 1 by Bob Huggins.

Rather, Huggins is guaranteed the mean salary for Big East coaches every year beginning in 2009. It’s a shrewd, if not selfless move in that one of the country’s winningest active coaches is taking a middle-of-the-pack salary in the Big East.

However, it is and will continue to be almost impossible for WVU to determine the mean because, as Associate Athletic Director for finance Russ Sharp says, “you’re only as accurate as the information people share and some people don’t share that information.”