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Message: [QUOTE="Jaybird65, post: 2574617, member: 7794"] It is not uncommon to make sure a coach has a 4 year life on a contract at all times to help with recruiting. This whole situation evolved with the manner in which he was hired in the 1st place with the manner in which JC retired. Recruiting would have been difficult during that 1st year if KO only had the 1 year contract. If a true search was able to be held, the new hire would have gotten a 4-5 year contract to start off & probably would have gotten an extension if they had won a national championship which would put us on about the same timeline as we are now. If we're going to look back at who made the "dumb" decision to give the extension, we have to look the whole way back to KO's 1st hiring as HC. KO had a couple year period in which everything he touched worked which has now changed significantly to other way. Folks keep referring to the fact that he is the highest paid head coach in the AAC; at the time of the extension UConn & he were still shining pretty brightly & I'm sure we all thought at the time that whoever the UConn head coach was should be the highest paid head coach in the AAC.... [/QUOTE]