Coaching Candidates There is a duty in basic contract law that the party damaged by the breach of a contract should mitigate their own damages. If your car gets damaged in an accident you can't then smash it into a tree, or go out and rent a Lamborghini and expect the party at fault to pay for the added expenses, (unless you were driving a Lamborghini at the time.) Generally a party that loses a job is required to seek other comparable employment. Gould would not have to accept employment as a nuclear physicist, or a cab driver, or to accept a head coaching job in some far off corner of the country...but on the other hand if he gets a job, say as an RB coach with Tedford at Fresno State, he probably can't say no, and then expect UCD to pay him as if he were still coaching here. Also he can't accept the job and expect the UC to pay his Davis salary on top of that.
Of course this general rule could probably be subject to a term of the contract itself, or could be negotiated in the "buy-out" which is essentially a revision of the contract.
This should all be preceded by "If I recall correctly..." It has been a long, long time since I fell asleep in contracts class.