Fat Cat Coaches Get HUGE Bonuses With Nebraska Win

IowaLawWasRight

IowaLawWasRight

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Barta, the master negotiator, sure knows how to incentivize mediocrity and underachievement. With a win against lowly Nebraska...thanks to our non-conference cupcakes:

Ferentz gets a $1.2M in bonuses by winning just 7 games and by going to a bowl game (woohoo, the Pinstripe Bowl!) and an extra $2.4M added to his buyout. Bonuses also for having just 67% of the team graduate. What a low bar!

Then there's the largely underachieving assistant coaches.

Coach Doyle, already the highest paid strength coach in the nation, will be getting an 8% pay raise on top of his $450,000 salary...totaling $36,000...his raise is more than the average Iowan makes in a year!

Coach Brian Ferentz, who climbed to the top of Kirk's coaching tree in just a few years, also gobbles up a $36,000 raise for guiding the 120th ranked offense in the nation. That's not even mediocrity. That's getting a nearly $40,000 raise for absolutely failing as a coach.

It's good to be an Iowa coach...even though it's painful to be an Iowa fan.



https://sports.yahoo.com/iowas-coac...ine-nebraska-191240307.html?hl=1&noRedirect=1
 
It has become the American way to reward people at the top who perform average to failing work with big money. CEOs can ruin a company (See Qwest back about 15 years ago as one example, and Wall St) and keep getting salary increases, huge bonuses, and stock options. Incredible what shareholders will put up with an vote for.

Hawk fans used to be the shareholders but now TV money is much bigger than ticket sales. As long as 60,000 fill most of the stadium Barta is happy.
 
ghawk407 said:
but but but Iowa puts a lot of players in the NFL......what more do you guys wanto_O
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How about Iowa back in 2002-4 and mid 2008-mid 2010. Kirk's first build up was due to some great recruiters and asst coaches which he doesnt have since 2012.
 
Enron gave out huge bonuses to the senior leadership even as the company was dying out of view of the stockholders...Enron leaders sold their shares high even as they daily told everyone, including the stockholding employees that everything was great....as the ship was sinking and soon was worthless...

Hmmmmm....

The Enron leadership must have been laughing it up during that last Thanksgiving feast...as they got out...as others who listened to their fairy tales lost everything...
 
How much would the U of I pay a coach who actually won something of significance every once in a while? It staggers the mind.
 
IowaLawWasRight said:
Barta, the master negotiator, sure knows how to incentivize mediocrity and underachievement. With a win against lowly Nebraska...thanks to our non-conference cupcakes:

Ferentz gets a $1.2M in bonuses by winning just 7 games and by going to a bowl game (woohoo, the Pinstripe Bowl!) and an extra $2.4M added to his buyout. Bonuses also for having just 67% of the team graduate. What a low bar!

Then there's the largely underachieving assistant coaches.

Coach Doyle, already the highest paid strength coach in the nation, will be getting an 8% pay raise on top of his $450,000 salary...totaling $36,000...his raise is more than the average Iowan makes in a year!

Coach Brian Ferentz, who climbed to the top of Kirk's coaching tree in just a few years, also gobbles up a $36,000 raise for guiding the 120th ranked offense in the nation. That's not even mediocrity. That's getting a nearly $40,000 raise for absolutely failing as a coach.

It's good to be an Iowa coach...even though it's painful to be an Iowa fan.



https://sports.yahoo.com/iowas-coac...ine-nebraska-191240307.html?hl=1&noRedirect=1
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7 wins in a 13 game season = 54% success rate. (F in grade school parlance)

That's Barta's idea of raise&extension territory. In most other lines of work that gets you fired.

7 wins in the regular season with JHF was a little different cuz he played a real OOC and only 11 games during the regular season.

Since the 2004 season, Kirk has exceeded expectations twice and met expectations once. The other 10 seasons were below expectations. Keeping him is eroding the program.
 
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IowaLawWasRight said:
Barta, the master negotiator, sure knows how to incentivize mediocrity and underachievement. With a win against lowly Nebraska...thanks to our non-conference cupcakes:

Ferentz gets a $1.2M in bonuses by winning just 7 games and by going to a bowl game (woohoo, the Pinstripe Bowl!) and an extra $2.4M added to his buyout. Bonuses also for having just 67% of the team graduate. What a low bar!

Then there's the largely underachieving assistant coaches.

Coach Doyle, already the highest paid strength coach in the nation, will be getting an 8% pay raise on top of his $450,000 salary...totaling $36,000...his raise is more than the average Iowan makes in a year!

Coach Brian Ferentz, who climbed to the top of Kirk's coaching tree in just a few years, also gobbles up a $36,000 raise for guiding the 120th ranked offense in the nation. That's not even mediocrity. That's getting a nearly $40,000 raise for absolutely failing as a coach.

It's good to be an Iowa coach...even though it's painful to be an Iowa fan.



https://sports.yahoo.com/iowas-coac...ine-nebraska-191240307.html?hl=1&noRedirect=1
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But if we get rid of KF and his gang of clowns we might not be able to find another coach.... Who wouldn't want to come here and cash in on being a failure to mediocre? Top notch facilities, top pay for being incompetent. Dream job.
 
For a bonus like that to kick in there needs to be 9+ regular season wins. 7 wins need to be no bonus at all, even with a bowl appearance.
 
Joshbrown said:
7 wins in a 13 game season = 54% success rate. (F in grade school parlance)

That's Barta's idea of raise&extension territory. In most other lines of work that gets you fired.

7 wins in the regular season with JHF was a little different cuz he played a real OOC and only 11 games during the regular season.

Since the 2004 season, Kirk has exceeded expectations twice and met expectations once. The other 10 seasons were below expectations. Keeping him is eroding the program.
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10/13 is not a particularly good grade but I'd be pleased with it in football.
 
As our coach points out after every loss, it's not his fault the players can't execute. Even if the offensive strategy is as predictable as the sun rising in the east, if everyone does their job perfectly, we can squeak out a win. Sarcasm aside, why haven't we use the 3 step drop after it worked so well against OSU?
 
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