KBTX article about Phil's retirement says that G "makes $250,000 per year, with a guaranteed buyout, should the university choose to terminate without cause." It also says that G's contract was extended in 2022 through March 2026. This is why we'll have him one more year.
This is exactly what Bjork would have done, just like he did with Blair and Jo Evans. Let the clock run out while the program deteriorates further instead of moving on. Trev: "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
“A crowded world thinks that aloneness is always loneliness, and that to seek it is perversion.”
John Graves
Goodbye to a River