I have said this many times before - if you offer someone a 10 year contract at basically 1 million a year - the only way you offer that is if you have the money to get out of it as well.
I believe UR has the money and could have paid to get out of it - but chose not to. Why? Cause athletics are not that type of priority at UR. Would it have cost a lot of money in the short term - of course. You might have been paying Mooney $1 million not to coach, and then have to pay a new coach probably 750-1 million as well. So yeah - short term, it hurts the bank account - but long term your thinking, if we can back to the NCAA quickly - we will make that money back ten fold.
But in my opinion - I think UR spends just enough to put on the display they care, or just enough to be competitive. But doesn't take that extra step either in spending, admissions, scheduling, recruiting, etc to take the next step or even attempt to take the next step.
So is that Miller's fault - I don't know. But I think when the 10 year deal was made, they should have been thinking in the back of their heads - in 6 years - if we need to get out of this deal, are we willing to pay 4 million + hire a new coach to do so? If the answer is NO - then you don't offer that deal. And I would hope - with a pretty good business school on Campus - they would be able to ask and answer this simple question before handing out a contract like that.