Calkins and Parrish opined that the $10mm buyout would be the largest buyout in NCAAb history and, therefore, are unsure a P5 school like Memphis would be able to financially afford such a historically large buyout.

(02-01-2016 10:49 PM)tiger2000 Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 10:41 PM)Easterwood Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 10:33 PM)Smith Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 09:14 PM)littledarrell1065 Wrote:  THE PROBLEM IS MONEY,MONEY,MONEY. THEY ARE NOT IN A P-5 CONFERENCE SO WITH ALL THE PROJECTS THAT THEY HAVE GOING ON CAMPUS THERE IS NOT ENOUGH MONEY. YOU CAN'T SQUEEZE BLOOD FROM A TURNIP. TRUST YOU ME THEY KNOW AND UNDERSTAND BUT WITH NO MONEY AT THEIR DISPOSEL THEIR HANDS ARE TIED, FRED SMITH IS A FOOTBALL GUY NOT BASKETBALL. MR LAURIE LIKES JOSH TOO MUCH FOR THEM TO ASK HIM, SO WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM.

Won't cost that much. Keep paying him but tell him to stay home. Since the team plays AAU ball hire an AAU coach for 10 grand a game and let the assistants conduct practice. Probably still beats as many top 50 teams.

College coaches, D1 and below coach AAU ball

Juco coaches coach AAU ball

HS coaches coach AAU ball

Ex and current NBA players and coaches coach AAU ball

Stars , movie and music , coach AAU ball

Hobos, Heros and Street Corner Clowns coach AAU ball

Drug dealers also

Videographers?

Nice!

Josh is our coach and is doing great. You guys need to get with the program because we are headed to the top with Pastner!

There isn't anything to be gained by firing him in at this point in the season. The team's trajectory isn't going to change - the season isn't going to be salvaged by letting him go with a month to go.
That, and a dramatic change in either direction will clarify and possibly make the decision easier; somehow a minor miracle happens and they win the conference tourney and go to the NCAA tourney and pull of an upset and the pressure to fire him lightens a little. Fall off a cliff and lose every game on in and it also becomes a more black-and-white decision. But due to the way the contract is set up there is nothing to be gained by announcing his firing right now. As such, the university is going to acknowledge the problem and do little more than talk about 'full support' and 'reviewing the situation.' Standard stuff.

(02-01-2016 11:33 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  Calkins and Parrish opined that the $10mm buyout would be the largest buyout in NCAAb history and, therefore, are unsure a P5 school like Memphis would be able to financially afford such a historically large buyout.

So is that egg on the face of Tom Bowen when he inevitably applies for jobs at bigger schools?

Not including a performance based out while adding automatic extensions?

(02-02-2016 06:50 AM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 11:33 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  Calkins and Parrish opined that the $10mm buyout would be the largest buyout in NCAAb history and, therefore, are unsure a P5 school like Memphis would be able to financially afford such a historically large buyout.

So is that egg on the face of Tom Bowen when he inevitably applies for jobs at bigger schools?

Not including a performance based out while adding automatic extensions?

Bowen has already started putting the blame on Shirley Raines for that - a friend who attended the St. Louis thing said that's what he said, before the company line of "we all need to support the players/this team this season."

This has to be the worst contract basketball history.

(02-02-2016 10:15 AM)batman Wrote:  This has to be the worst contract basketball history.

It's a head scratcher for sure.

(02-02-2016 10:11 AM)tigergreen Wrote:  

(02-02-2016 06:50 AM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 11:33 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  Calkins and Parrish opined that the $10mm buyout would be the largest buyout in NCAAb history and, therefore, are unsure a P5 school like Memphis would be able to financially afford such a historically large buyout.

So is that egg on the face of Tom Bowen when he inevitably applies for jobs at bigger schools?

Not including a performance based out while adding automatic extensions?

Bowen has already started putting the blame on Shirley Raines for that - a friend who attended the St. Louis thing said that's what he said, before the company line of "we all need to support the players/this team this season."

Tom Bowen was on the job for less than a year when this got done. Even if he signed on he was probably coerced. And it for sure wasn't Shirley Raines that did the coercing.

(02-02-2016 10:11 AM)tigergreen Wrote:  

(02-02-2016 06:50 AM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 11:33 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  Calkins and Parrish opined that the $10mm buyout would be the largest buyout in NCAAb history and, therefore, are unsure a P5 school like Memphis would be able to financially afford such a historically large buyout.

So is that egg on the face of Tom Bowen when he inevitably applies for jobs at bigger schools?

Not including a performance based out while adding automatic extensions?

Bowen has already started putting the blame on Shirley Raines for that - a friend who attended the St. Louis thing said that's what he said, before the company line of "we all need to support the players/this team this season."

Dateline Memphis Feb 2nd 2103:. Having just lost a close game to their conference rival many message board members were seen posting on their cranium-pads that it was Shirley Raines fault with others blaming RC Johnson.