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OT: Self gets lifetime deal

Or the punishment is way more severe than anyone thought
 
tcf15 said:
My god, his contract stipulates that he will not be fired regardless of what will happen in the infractions case. The things that happen when a donor is running your athletic department.

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Now THAT is hilarious. Most contracts have a morality clause where if you F up you’re fired. His has a clause where they are EXPECTING him to be found guilty of something and all it costs him is an adjustment to his lifetime salary.

Good god!!!
 
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tcf15 said:
My god, his contract stipulates that he will not be fired regardless of what will happen in the infractions case. The things that happen when a donor is running your athletic department.

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Makes it pretty clear how they want him to handle recruiting going forward
 
If there was a god, the Rotten Fruit would give nose picker a lifetime contract.
This contract stinks something fierce. 💩 I don't have a good theory on it, but given the infractions still being out there, it doesn't sound right.
 
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The NCAA needs villains so at least we have one sticking around for a while.
 
how does KU get crazy rich alumni to personally finance the basketball program? it's a similarly sized public university, where are UConn's boosters at?
 
tcf15 said:
My god, his contract stipulates that he will not be fired regardless of what will happen in the infractions case. The things that happen when a donor is running your athletic department.

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Wow... actually speechless after what just happened with les miles. This is like a you to the NCAA, unless of course they’re in cahoots and paying off Emmett and the NCAA, which I wouldn’t put pass all of them
 
bendm said:
how does KU get crazy rich alumni to personally finance the basketball program? it's a similarly sized public university, where are UConn's boosters at?
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I wonder the same thing about SEC programs. Where the hell are they getting all these uber rich alumni that give their life savings to athletics? Their academics are not any better than UConn other than Vanderbilt and maybe Georgia/Florida.
 
Isn't that lyric in an Alanis Morissette song, "Got a lifetime contract, and died the next day. Isn't it ironic? Don't ya think? A little too ironic? Yeah, I really do think."
 
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And to think Lew Perkins was too corrupt for these guys.
 
UConn was my first love, but I am a Kansas Alum.

Love that Bill will be around forever. Everyone here can act holier than and keep your head in the sand, but if you are a smart athletic department, you keep your HOF coach happy. With the rumors of him going to San Antonio, this was needed.
 
So a state that just this year suspended tenure protections so they have cover to fire professors and which is absolutely not hiring anybody to new tenure lines is handing out lifetime contracts to a coach who already makes at least the salary of any ten professors before endorsements. Good stuff.
 
aburks41 said:
I wonder the same thing about SEC programs. Where the hell are they getting all these uber rich alumni that give their life savings to athletics? Their academics are not any better than UConn other than Vanderbilt and maybe Georgia/Florida.
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Most UConn alum are tied down paying the insane taxes in the Northeast states
 
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superjohn said:
How do you compensate them?
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I am certain you recognize that the complexity of that solution is absolutely 1000% not the point in this context. You have people on this board saying that paying the players would somehow compromise the integrity of college sports. Meanwhile the FBI has Bill Self's assistants on wiretaps talking about giving cash to players and he gets rewarded with a lifetime contract that stipulates that he can't get fired for what's on those tapes.

And to your point, saying that something is complicated is not a credible reason not to do it. There are a million different options, it could be figured out if anyone had the appetite for it. Let them exploit their image and likeness, take some portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars in tv revenues, ad sales, concessions, ticket sales and put it in a fund that players can access after their playing career for health care, benefits, etc. Smart people can figure this out.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
I am certain you recognize that the complexity of that solution is absolutely 1000% not the point in this context. You have people on this board saying that paying the players would somehow compromise the integrity of college sports. Meanwhile the FBI has Bill Self's assistants on wiretaps talking about giving cash to players and he gets rewarded with a lifetime contract that stipulates that he can't get fired for what's on those tapes.

And to your point, saying that something is complicated is not a credible reason not to do it. There are a million different options, it could be figured out if anyone had the appetite for it. Let them exploit their image and likeness, take some portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars in tv revenues, ad sales, concessions, ticket sales and put it in a fund that players can access after their playing career for health care, benefits, etc. Smart people can figure this out.
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So no salaries?
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
I have no idea. Again, that has nothing to do with the issue here. I'm sure someone who gets paid to figure this out could figure it out. Weird that that's such an objectionable idea but handing out bags of cash in hotel rooms in Vegas is no big deal.
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You brought up compensating players, I asked how you would do it? I said nothing about it being an objectionable idea.
 
superjohn said:
You brought up compensating players, I asked how you would do it? I said nothing about it being an objectionable idea.
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The way the SCOTUS is asking questions in their NCAA case, and after all is said and done this might be a moot point. The super conservative Justice Thomas lit into the NCAA's logic and legal experts are saying it doesn't look good for their case. Emmert and the Presidents have no one to blame but themselves. The "amateur scholar-athlete" charade has been going on for decades, its about time they called a spade a spade and fixed it.
 
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