Rawkhawk73
Banned
Barta goes out and gets a guy with 6 total years of college basketball head-coaching experience, from a mid-major school, and gives him a 7 year contract with a $600k/year buyout.
Who does that?
Because of that, we're at the point where we may quite possibly have to deal with the fact that Lickliter will be back next year. If he is back, it won't be out of a sense of loyalty, or a sense that he can turn it around it will be simply because Barta does not want to pay $2.4M to buy out Lickliter and then turn around and pay a crap load of money to buy out his new coach plus pay him his current year contract.
This could have all been avoided if Barta just gave him a standard 5 year deal at the outset and then extended him each year the last two years without extending the buyout.
That "mistake" is likely going to cost the University $1.2M.
We can only hope he's learned from his mistake....if not, his tenure will be short-lived.
Who does that?
Because of that, we're at the point where we may quite possibly have to deal with the fact that Lickliter will be back next year. If he is back, it won't be out of a sense of loyalty, or a sense that he can turn it around it will be simply because Barta does not want to pay $2.4M to buy out Lickliter and then turn around and pay a crap load of money to buy out his new coach plus pay him his current year contract.
This could have all been avoided if Barta just gave him a standard 5 year deal at the outset and then extended him each year the last two years without extending the buyout.
That "mistake" is likely going to cost the University $1.2M.
We can only hope he's learned from his mistake....if not, his tenure will be short-lived.
