Suspended athletic director John Currie was the only Tennessee official to sign the memorandum of understanding with Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano.

The full MOU was released to GoVols247 on Monday in response to an open records request.

The length of Tennessee's proposed deal with Schiano was for six seasons through Jan. 31, 2024, and the former coach at Rutgers and of the NFL's Tampa Bay Bucs would have earned a starting base salary of $4.4 million.

Built-in annual raises of $50,000 would have brought the average annual salary to $4.5 million and increased the total worth of the deal to $27 million.

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The MOU was not signed by Tennessee chancellor Beverly Davenport or David Miller, the university's chief financial officer.

Tennessee believes the absence of their signatures makes the MOU a non-binding legal document and thus off the hook for any compensation to Schiano.

The incentive structure, camp compensation and other allowances for moving and vehicle expenses are similar to the deal Tennessee reached with Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, who was introduced as the new coach of the Vols on Thursday.

However, the buyout figures in Schiano's deal are different.

Tennessee would have owed 75 percent of the base salary remaining on the deal for terminating Schiano without cause as opposed to the 60 percent buyout in Pruitt's deal, though in both deals the buyout is not mitigated by the coach's next job and would be paid in equal monthly installments over the remainder of the term.

Schiano's buyout for leaving the Vols would have been an initial total of $5 million after the first contract year, then dropped by $1.5 million in the second contract year and by $1 million the next two contract years.

In Pruitt's deal, the initial buyout is $6 million, and the figure drops by $1 million each year.

Tennessee's deal with Schiano fell through on Nov. 26 due to widespread backlash publicly from fans and privately from former players and athletic department personnel, and Currie was suspended with pay and supplanted by Phillip Fulmer five days later after the Vols' search meandered through multiple public missteps.

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