No - we need to hire someone that wins so we will WANT to pay him a million dollars.
That's what I was going to say. The fact that he is still the lowest paid coach in the league despite being in his sixth year tells you everything you need to know.
Bruce Pearl made $800,000 into the middle of 2006.
The new contract signed in 2006 averaged $1.3 million.
By 2008 he was negotiating a new contract that would average $2.3 million.
His current contract, signed just last year, is for 7 years, $21 million, or an average of $3 million per season.
See that....$800k, $1.3 m, $2.3 m, $3 m. That's a sure sign you're doing something right. Of course, Tennessee fired a guy that had won 20 games for four straight years right before Pearl got there. So apparently they care about their program. So maybe everything I just wrote about Pearl is irrelevant and only contributes to a discussion about SEC schools that care about their basketball program?
There is no reason I can think of that a new coach should be paid the same in year one as he is in year 6. If he hasn't earned a raise by year 3 or 4, don't you fire him?
(cue Kaos Jay Jacobs rant.....now!)
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