(02-05-2020 11:40 AM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote:  

(02-05-2020 11:38 AM)Uncwnew2theboard Wrote:  I suspect they both are making very well in the conference they are in, I hear UNCW maybe be a little low on funds after having to buy out CB, I also hear they were going to try to get girls basketball their own locker room, but that's on hold now.

I don't think we can afford to go cheap with our hire just because of CB's buyout. That's a good way to end up with another bad hire all over again.

Usually when a HC gets let go here, big donors step up to pay for the buyout. And I also imagine we wouldn't have let go of CB when we did without some assurance that the money would be there. That's not always a good thing, since those big donors might use that leverage to try to impact the hiring decision. But that's the nature of the business, particularly at the mid-major level.

But either way we can't afford to miss out on a quality candidate over the money. I imagine our next hire will make as much or more than CB got.

UNCW has moved to a perfomance based contract with a smaller guarantee. It's a contract that has evolved due to past mistakes. I doubt the contract will look much different for the next coach.