Chip Scoggins column: Replacing Smith not a cheap proposition

Donate To GopherHole
dpodoll68 said:
Who said that I wanted a new coach? I'm just saying that if they think he needs to be fired, they can't keep him solely because it would cost too much to fire him.
Click to expand...

You obviously only read a sentence of my post
 

howeda7 said:
The MN athletic department does not receive any money from the state (funding for TCF aside.) Any legislator who's going to hold up funding for any other U project to grandstand about $$ wasted on athletics will do it whether we fire Tubby or not. They already have plenty of ammo (UNC buyout, etc.)
Click to expand...

So profits earned in the athletic department are held separate from the university as a whole?
 


howeda7 said:
+1 on this and the double-counting of the salary. This '$6 million' # is garbage. I heard someone on 1500 throw it out yesterday too. Unless we get Shaka Smart, the new coach will probably be paid less than Tubby makes now. The buyout of the assistants should not be much more than that difference. The cost to fire Tubby will be approximately the cost of the actual buyout, $2.5 million, or about 3 football series' with UNC. Not $6 million. This decision should be based on basketball and not $$.
Click to expand...

Depending on who the hire would be, there may be a buy-out for the coach at his present job.
 

station19 said:
Depending on who the hire would be, there may be a buy-out for the coach at his present job.
Click to expand...

Possible, but I think those things are often worked out between the coach and school. Did we pay one for Monson? Tubby? I don't think so.
 


Winasota Gopher said:
So profits earned in the athletic department are held separate from the university as a whole?
Click to expand...

The Athletic Department is supposed to be self-funding yes. It's one of Joel's most treasured accomplishments.
 

Say it ain't so...

From the Barn said:
Are the assistants even under contract?
Click to expand...

The assistant basketball coaches must be on an annual contract. I'm confident that is the norm.
If we did something different for the guys we have, that is silly.

I don't know what they make but I'd also be surprised if it is much over a $100,000 for some and $200,000 for a one or two.

We have football coaches making in this salary range and football is a much higher revenue sport.
Yes, there are more football assistants than basketball but there are 120 players and only twice as many coaches in football versus basketball.

Then again the writer must have researched it....so I go back to my original point....if the assistant basketball coaches are not on annual contracts that is/was stupid.
 

Chip also didn't take Trevor's returned tuition into account.
 




You must log in or register to reply here.



Top Bottom