San Diego Union Tribune: Long Beach's unique way to pay coach Dan Monson

[BleedGopher]

per the Union Tribune:

Monson for years has assembled the nation’s toughest, most unforgiving nonconference schedule that includes a game against No. 18 San Diego State on Wednesday night at Viejas Arena. The reasoning, he told USA Today in 2013, is “it’s a great coaching tool to help prepare a team” and “it’s the only way to elevate a mid-major school” and “it helps with recruiting” and it “entices a lot of players who have a chip on their shoulder to beat the school that didn’t notice them.”

What Monson doesn’t mention is that the brutal string of road games against college basketball blue bloods also yields him hundreds of thousands of dollars each season. In a unique arrangement, clauses in his last two contracts with Long Beach State allow him to keep a sizeable chunk of the sometimes six-figure guarantees that schools pay for a one-off “buy” game in their arena.

Since 2011-12, according to documents obtained by U-T San Diego, Monson has been eligible to receive nearly $1 million of the $1.46 million paid to Long Beach State from 16 buy games he scheduled.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/dec/09/sdsu-basketball-long-beach-state-monson-contract/

Go Gophers!!

 

[Shawn Bradley Guy]

Great article. I don't really mind this incentive in his contract. But with that said, the two separate trips to New York within a weeks time (when campus is based in California) is ridiculous. I know the holiday is smack dab in the middle...but, do a better job scheduling when you're the one profiting off these as a coach.

I'll never forget Monson's Century 21 blazer that he sported during an actual game.