(03-13-2018 06:15 PM)emu steve Wrote: If I remember correctly, Murphy gets a year added to his contract AND the price of him leaving goes up.
Murphy's contract is golden handcuffs. EMU and Murphy are joined at the hips.
Steve I just reread the contract and here is what I gleaned. Keep in mind I have no professional legal expertise but it is pretty straight forward as written
1) The 20 win season this year automatically extends his term two more seasons beyond this one as you have correctly stated.
2) His penalty for leaving prior to contract end is his "base salary" that is defined as $210,000. There is no additional cost for him to leave at any time over another. He does get an additional $10K bonus each year for staying employed, however.
Now it gets interesting:
The CIT or CBI tourney invite earns him a $7,500 bonus.
Each win in the tournament earns him another $2,500.
While he has already earned another $25K in bonus (20-24 wins), winning another four games would increase that payment to $30K due to exceeding 25 wins.
So if we to win the tournament this would be Murph's additional income.
Tournament appearance $ 7,500
Five tourney wins at $2.5K each 12,500
Incremental bonus for >25 wins 5,000
So in other words Murphy can make $25,000 if we could win this tournament. Like it or not this is what it is.