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Bill Self Receives Multi-Year Extension at Kansas: Is He Still Underpaid?

Chris Johnson — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:11:37 +0000

Chris Johnson is an RTC columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn.

If there’s a college basketball coach who deserves a pay raise, Bill Self probably qualifies. At face value, that statement may come off as snobbish or patronizing – many believe college athletics coaches are grossly overpaid, that their lofty range of compensation would be better spent elsewhere – but if you’re willing to accept today’s coaching salary standards as a premise for discussion, Self is long past due on the list of coaches meriting an augmented payment scale. In nine seasons at Kansas, Self has won five Big 12 Tournament [...]

Big Ten Summer Check In: Iowa Hawkeyes

Deepak Jayanti — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:33:44 +0000

Iowa basketball made headlines this past week when its head coach Fran McCaffery signed a huge contract extension to remain in Iowa City. After just two seasons, McCaffery has been chosen to lead th Iowa program for the next decade and can make up to $2M per year if the Hawkeyes return to the NCAA Tournament multiple times during that period. Hawkeye Nation definitely remembers the last time it tasted the NCAAs in 2006, when they were upset by Northwestern State in the first round. It has been a crazy ride for Iowa since then but they are beginning to see [...]

Comings & Goings: Fordham Pays Pecora; Howland and DePaul?

rtmsf — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:14:47 +0000

The big news today in this area was of course the news that Tony Barbee is leaving UTEP to take the Auburn job. We handled that separately here.

The other piece of coaching news is that Hofstra’s Tom Pecora has signed with Fordham for a non-puny sum of $705,000 per year. Wow. In the same New York Post article, Joe DeLessio says that Paul Hewitt is still the leading candidate to take the St. John’s job but a hefty buyout of $3.5M is holding up things.

In a pre-emptive strike by Northern Iowa to try to [...]

Morning Five: 12.21.09 Edition

rtmsf — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:23:08 +0000

Iowa starting point guard Anthony Tucker was charged with public intoxication on the night of his team’s win over Drake, 71-67, and he will be suspended from the team immediately. This is his second such charge, as he pleaded guilty to the same charge one year ago in Iowa City. According to Jim Calhoun, he and UConn are very close to signing a five-year extension to his current contract that will keep the acerbic coach in Storrs into his seventies. Reportedly, Ken Kreyeske was his top negotiator in the discussions. Ohio State’s Evan Turner is on the record stating that his return [...]