Thanks for the lesson on contract law. I assume coach K and Jay Wright had years left on their contracts and walked away anyway.
I think he will finish out his contract unless he gets fired or gets a better offer elsewhere, yes. You know, like every normal coach does.
These amounts are not what Rutgers owes Pike if Rutgers fires him. The figures are what Pike owes Rutgers if he leaves.
I uploaded Steve Pikiell’s contract and the most recent amendment to ChatGPT and had it interpret to determine how much we’d owe if we fired him without cause today. Here’s the result:
That contradicts what has been reported previously. Where did you get a copy of the actual contract from? I'd be curious to read it
I would argue we've had pretty bad luck the last few years. That doesn't mean it's necessarily enough of an excuse. But I definitely think our luck has been worse than average.
Thanks for sharing. I read the relevant sections and confirming what I said earlier is accurate -- he'd be entitled to his remaining salary in full through 2031. Which is about $4M per year. To the extent he gets a job elsewhere, we'd only owe him any shortfall.
Yeah..saw the other post..it's even worse. For a lawyer Hobbs was dumb as a rock.
True but nil coming in is kind of a once in a lifetime change. To me if I was making the decision it would come down to whether or not I think pike can navigate the nil world well enough to have a roster that can compete for ncaa births consistently. Whether you make it or not and how far you go often comes down to luck. Some have a higher bar ie consistently top 30 program which means you are pretty much always in the tourney. That’s the expectation I think a lot of people here have.
Luck?
you’re right - I shouldn’t have trusted the bot haha but I just read the “termination without cause” section myself and we’d owe him his base compensation for the balance of the agreement. I definitely was operating with confirmation bias and did not check ChatGPT’s work initially
If we don’t make the B1G tournament this year but make it next year, he’ll get an extension. Mediocrity is relative.
I think he has way more class than C-Viv (i.e., I don’t think he would ever just take money without working for it), but I don’t think he walks away either.
I thought you had me on ignore lol. Eh. We have to disagree on what’s lucky or not. Appreciate your comments!
For a $4 million dollar a year coach who is paid to win games…the only way to improve is to win more
I see your point with them knocking down most shots down the stretch, but I don’t know if I’d call it luck. They only shot 45% from three for the game, not outrageous and a lot at the end were open looks. Battle only shot 46% for the game so very warm but not out of his mind. When we played as bad as we did I can’t call it luck. Mulchay losing it off himself out of bounds. And throwing a poor cross court pick. Hyatt just had to turn and dribble across instead of throwing BACKWARDS in the middle of the floor. Even the lack of discipline by the bench singing and dancing to Bless the rains. We missed the ncaas because of that. That game maybe have been the beginning moment of the program spiraling down to where it is now.
Looking over what I posted and what you are saying, you are right and the buyout money I posted is like you said: if he leaves on his own.
My problem with the OSU game was how we played that last full court Def possession
I did and recently felt it was time to try and have decent exchanges again. Is that ok ? I hope so.
IIRC we had some options not used like a TO and could have fouled? But again I could be wrong. your memory could very well be better than mine at my age.
Wasn't the NCAA instructed to count the OSU game as a win for tournament consideration that year?
