We need to stop obsessing about Pearl

[DuffMan]

Pearl makes more on the shoe contracts and camp moneys that are not part of the guaranteed money. On the base contract as of 2008 season Summitt was still higher paid. So his overall compensation is higher but that is from the shoe company primarily.

I'm guessing that as long as the money is guaranteed he doesn't care if it comes from his "base salary" or shoe deal. It would take someone with an Alford like ego to get thier panies in a bunch because someone else has a higher listed "basketball salary".

 

[FreddyBrown]

The university has clauses in the contract that if Pearl were to leave, the school he is going to would have to pay Tenn. X$$. School's with good coaches want to put in those poison pills so they don't have to renegotiate salaries year after year every time a school comes calling. Actually I think with Pearl the buyout was 2.5 million year 1 of the new contract and then goes down. 2.5 year 1 , 2.0 year 2, 1.5 year 3 and 1.0 year 4.

With Alford, I thought Iowa felt they were overpaying the guy and were just looking to get out of a bad contract. New Mexico says we will take him. Alford wanted out, Iowa wanted out of Alfords contract one of those rare "win win" situations.

Alford did not have a clause requiring him to buy out his contract with Iowa if he left. Those clauses are not nearly as common as the clause that requires the school to buy out the coach's contract if he's terminated without cause.

Has someone seen Pearl's contract? I have copies of the Iowa coaches' contracts, and I'd be curious to see Pearl's. Since UT is a public institution, it should be out there somewhere. I'll do a search.

Personally, I'd put Iowa's chances of landing Pearl at more like 5-10%, and a lot of the uncertainty relates to whether we can come up with the kind of cash we'd have to have to do it. If I knew we were willing and able to come up with enough to offer him $2.5M to start and cover any buyout with UT, my odds might go up to more like 50-50, but even then I think there's a substantial chance that either he'd turn us down, or the whole idea would be vetoed by the UI based on some past history.

 

[Hawkize1]

The odds are stacked against Bruce coaching at Iowa in the near future. We can all wish and hope, but when this coaching search is over, I just don't look for Bruce to be heading up the Iowa Program. It's fun to speculate and dream (if this is your guy).
Let's step away from our biased approach and look at this in a logical manner. It doesn't make sense to Bruce or to the U of I to make this change right now.
Maybe in a few years things will change.