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I can not find any details on DMac's cntract extension. I believe he initally received a 6 year contract which was then extended to additional 3 years.
Am I correct? Does anyone have a source to verify contract term?
Thanks
There was an article in the DM Register awhile back that summarized the contract extension.
In summary, Gmac received 3 additional years of extensions before had coached a game, brining his contract to a total of 9 years. The contract (unbelievably) included a clause where Gmac received a 1 year extension for any and each NCAA violation under the previous coaching staff. As hard as it is to believe, the contract did not distinguish between major and minor NCAA violations.
Gmac received a 1 year extension for the following:
1 year for losing 1 scholarship to APR in year 1 of Gmac's tenure.
1 year for losing 1 scholarship to APR in year 1 of Gmac's tenure.
1 year for Jiri sitting out 6 non-conf games for driving his foster parents car.
For a total of 3 years. Believe it or not, if say we had lost 4 scholarships in that first year to APR, Gmac would have received 2 more individual years of extensions.
Long story short, great work by Gmac's agent, terrible job by Pollard and whoever else reviews and writes contracts for Iowa State. Not distinguishing between major and minor NCAA violations and guaranteeing a 1-year extension for any and each individual violation is incompetent contract writing, to be kind.
Not accurate: Largest loss of scholarships possible under APR is 2
Not accurate: Largest loss of scholarships possible under APR is 2
He's lucky to have a contract at all.Gmac is one of the lowest paid coaches in the BCS - I'd argue his agent stinks!![]()
Gmac is one of the lowest paid coaches in the BCS - I'd argue his agent stinks!![]()
With the benefit of hindsight, I don't see how anyone could come to the conclusion that "Pollard did great."I think Pollard did great - he had to find a way to get a new coach to agree to a low comp amount due to what we owed WM. He traded the lower salaray for more years, and probably figured that if GMac did a good job, he'd want him here longer anway..
Compare GMACs wages with what Frank Martin receives and the term of Frank Martin's contract.Gmac is one of the lowest paid coaches in the BCS - I'd argue his agent stinks!![]()
I think Pollard did great - he had to find a way to get a new coach to agree to a low comp amount due to what we owed WM. He traded the lower salaray for more years, and probably figured that if GMac did a good job, he'd want him here longer anway.
Another thing, we've got a verbal already from the classes of 2011 and 2012 - a lot of teams do. So having a coach through 2015 isn't that crazy - T Ford at OSU signed a 10 year extension last year....
6 years is a pretty long contract for someone who had never coached at the high-major level. You think Pollard did great? We have a coach locked up for 5 more years who has yet to even reach the NIT and has not reached the level of success of his immediate predecessor who was fired, and we cannot afford to buy him out. These past 4 years have been the worst strech of ISU basketball since at least Johnny Orr came here. That was decades ago by the way. Obviously your definition of great is a little different than most ISU fans.
Having a coach through 2015 isn't crazy... having an ineffective coach is. The bottom line is years of losing and large scale player defections is not going to help recruiting, things will be even tougher here on out for GM than they have been so far. Fans are starting (or have long since) to lose faith. We really, really, really need a strong finish to this season to keep some optimism in the fan base. Hopefully that starts with a big win over KU Saturday!
KG, I remember something to the effect that we asked the NCAA to accellerate
the penalty because we didn't have enough bodies to fill the schollies that were
available.
KG, I remember something to the effect that we asked the NCAA to accellerate
the penalty because we didn't have enough bodies to fill the schollies that were
available.