Most notably Davie and Faust.
Weis had two decent years to start and everyone knew 2007 was gonna be horrible due to Ty's recruiting dereliction of duty. Still Weis made it even worse and could have been gone after 2008.
ND allows itself to get caught up in "honoring the contract" discussions. Buy-out clauses are negotiated for reason.
You let someone go...you still have to "honor the contract". Another thing other schools don't worry much about...