Fran McCaffery is only under Contract thru 2023; Time for a lengthy extension
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Hardly, but Fran is not a recruiting genius by any stretch of the imagination and has coaching flaws have had Iowa fans shaking their heads in bewilderment.
How do you explain Tuesday's loss other then Iowa came out flat against a 15 and 14 team that whooped their asses, less then 2 months ago, then took them to the woodshed and completely dominated the last home game like they were Duke or Kentucky.
Blame the players or do you put it all on the coach and staff.
Again why has Iowa not had a season under Fran that includes less then 11 losses or higher then a 7 seed in the NCAA tournament and speaking of late season fades that have plagued Iowa in the past, you realize that if Iowa loses to Illinois on Sunday they will have lost 6 of their last 11 games.
Maybe not a complete fade but enough to have the appearance of one.
You may think he needs to be rewarded for being an average to above average coach but I for one want him to show me that he can elevate Iowa to more then 4th place finish in the BIG and maybe a sweet 16 or better before throwing money at him like he's some coaching genius. He's a good coach but they're 10 to 12 coaches in the BIG that have proven to be better recruiters and coaches then Fran.
Knowing Bohannan was not going to play this year Fran went out and recruited Evelyn,Toussaint, and Patrick, not players that had much of a reputation of great 3 point shooters, then instead of scouring the transfer portal he puts Till on scholarship. great story but how'd that work out. Let's see 27 3 pointers from those 4 players for the entire season so far. Add the fact the Pemsl made 1, and can't seem to have any consistent offensive game, you get situations where Garza is 4 on 1 and everyone just stands around.
It's fine if you question me, but stats don't lie. Fran had the ability to go out and recruit an additional 3 point shooter to compliment Weeze and Fredrick and didn't. We now have what we have.
If Fran coached at MSU, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio State, Maryland, Purdue or Wisconsin he would have already been fired.
The man has made a lot of dough for simply not being Todd Lickliter.
The man has made a lot of dough for simply not being Todd Lickliter.
No one “knew” Bohannon was not going to play, even Bohannon. There was a good chance that Bohannon wasn’t going to play, but plan all along was to give it a chance.
Iowa is 6th in overall adj off. I don’t think that’s a problem.
Fran does not even make the Top 28 list.
And cheaters like Bill Self, Sean Miller, Roy Williams, Bruce Pearl, John Calipari and Kelvin Sampson do.
This is unacceptable and must be fixed. Now.
The 28 Highest-Paid College Basketball Coaches in 2020
The NCAA still won't pay its players, but schools are able to give the coaches millions. Here are this season's highest-paid coaches.
STEVE FIORILLO
MAR 3, 2020 2:55 PM EST
These are the 28 highest-paid coaches in all of college basketball for 2019-20 using information from Stadium.
1. Mike Krzyzewski, Duke
Salary: $8.98 million
Who else could it have been? Coach K has been the head coach of Duke since 1980. They've made the NCAA tournament in 35 of the last 36 seasons, are well on their way to another one and haven't missed it since the 1994-95 season. And even in that season, Coach K coached just 12 games before leaving for injury treatment. He has presided over five NCAA Championship teams, with an additional three teams that lost but made the finals. He's the only coach in men's college basketball history to win 1,000 games with a single team, a feat he accomplished en route to winning the most games of any college basketball coach in NCAA history. It would've been more surprising if he wasn't No. 1.
2. John Calipari, Kentucky
Salary: $8.04 million
No matter what school Calipari coaches in, he has never been far from some sort of controversy. But his record as a coach has kept him around. With the exception of a brief NBA stint in the late 90s, Calipari has been a head coach in the NCAA since 1988, and has coached Kentucky since 2009. In that stint with the Wildcats he has won one championship, made another Finals appearance, made the Final Four two other times and has three other appearances in the Elite Eight. It's been an impressive run, to say the least.
3. Mick Cronin, UCLA
Salary: $5.5 million
Cronin is in the first year of his contract as head coach of the Bruins. A head coach in the Division I world since 2003, Cronin has seen a lot of success at programs that didn't have the resources or name brand UCLA does. Coaching Murray State for 3 years from 2003-06, his teams went 69-24 and made the NCAA tournament twice. From there he was hired by Cincinnati, where he coached for 13 seasons. Before leaving for UCLA, his Bearcats teams had made the NCAA tournament in nine consecutive seasons, peaking with a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2012.
4. Rick Barnes, Tennessee
Salary: $4.7 million
Rick Barnes is in his 5th season with Tennessee, steadily improving both their record and their success in the NCAA tournament. Prior to his tenure as Volunteers coach he was with Texas for 17 seasons, as well as having head coaching stints with George Mason, Providence and Clemson. After getting Tennessee to the Sweet Sixteen in 2019, Barnes was rewarded with a lucrative new contract extension worth $26 million.
5. Bill Self, Kansas
Salary: $4.48 million
Bill Self has led Kansas to the NCAA tournament every year he has been head coach since he started in 2003. He also made it the three years prior as coach of Illinois, and the two years before that as well as coach of Tulsa. That is 21 straight tournament appearances for Self, with a championship to show for it with his 2007-08 Jayhawks team. He's also certain to make it 22 straight this season. He is currently in the midst of a 10-year contract, having solidified himself at one of the best college programs.
6. Chris Beard, Texas Tech
Salary: $4.2 million
Chris Beard is a newcomer to this list, and has coached for a fraction of the time some of the others on this list have. But that's what happens when you take a team to its first ever National Championship game in just your third season, as Beard did with Texas Tech last year. Though they lost in overtime to Virginia, the season was the most successful one in Red Raiders history. Texas Tech wasted no time in making sure they keep Beard around, signing him to a 6-year, $27.45 million contract extension.
7. Roy Williams, North Carolina
Salary: $4.04 million
The Roy Williams era at UNC has been a phenomenally successful one, culminating in NCAA tournament championships in 2005 (just his second season with the Tar Heels), 2009 and 2017. Williams made a fourth appearance in the NCAA finals with North Carolina in 2016, and also appeared there in 2003 during his final season as Kansas head coach. Though 2019-20 has not been a season to remember for North Carolina, Williams has been one of the most consistently successful head coaches in college basketball since he started in 1988.
8. Chris Mack, Louisville
Salary: $4 million
Chris Mack is currently in his second season with the Cardinals, having gotten Louisville to the first round of the NCAA tournament in his first. Prior to this, Mack had seen some success as the head coach of Xavier from 2009-2018, making the Elite Eight in 2017. Louisville signed Mack to a seven year contract in 2018.
9. Tom Izzo, Michigan State
Salary: $3.957 million
Izzo is in his 25th season coaching Michigan State, and is currently riding a 22-year NCAA tournament streak with a 23rd consecutive appearance likely. His Spartans won the tournament once, in the 1999-00 season, and reached the final game again in 2008-09, losing to North Carolina. Izzo and his Spartans team are trying to return to a similar level of glory, having failed to make it past the second round for three consecutive seasons amidst a scandal involving sexual assault allegations against former Michigan State athletes before returning to the Final Four in 2019.
10. Bob Huggins, West Virginia
Salary: $3.955 million
Huggins has never won the NCAA tournament despite being a head coach since 1980. But throughout his career he has consistently built programs that contend year in and year out, and that is true of his West Virginia team, which he has coached since 2007. They've made the Sweet Sixteen in three of the last four tournaments, and they're hoping to go well beyond that this year; Huggins has never made it past the Final Four in his career. After a disappointing 2018-19 season, Huggins' Mountaineers have rebounded this season and could be looking at a return to the NCAA tournament.
11. Bruce Pearl, Auburn
Salary: $3.8 million
Bruce Pearl saw great success in the mid to late-2000s as coach of Tennessee - that is, of course, until NCAA violations led to the team firing him in 2011. That didn't stop Tigers fans from welcoming him with open arms when Auburn announced his hiring in 2014. Pearl's Auburn teams struggled in his first three years but broke through to make the NCAA tournament in 2018, falling in the second round. They then took a massive step forward in the 2019 tournament, making it all the way to the Final Four.
12. Larry Krystkowiak, Utah
Salary: $3.77 million
Krystkowiak actually played in the NBA for years before coaching with teams like the Bucks, Spurs, Bulls and Lakers. He had coached at both the college level (for Montana) and the NBA level (the Bucks) before becoming the Utes head coach in 2011, where he proceeded to rebuild a struggling team into a perennial contender. But since a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2015 and a second-round exit in 2016, the team has failed to make the tournament despite solid seasons.
13. Gregg Marshall, Wichita State
Salary: $3.5 million
Gregg Marshall has done an impressive job of taking a Wichita State program with a spotty history and turning them into a team that has now made seven consecutive NCAA tournaments. Their greatest success came in 2013 when Marshall took the team to the Final Four, upsetting both the No. 1 seed (Gonzaga) and No. 2 seed (Ohio State) in the Western Regional conference before falling to eventual champion Louisville.
14. Archie Miller, Indiana
Salary: $3.31 million
Archie Miller is just 41 years old, and his first season with Indiana wasn't the most successful. But Miller was hired to help rebuild the storied Hoosiers franchise after his success coaching the Dayton Flyers. Before he left to take the Hoosiers job, Dayton had made 4 consecutive NCAA tournaments, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2014.
And cheaters like Bill Self, Sean Miller, Roy Williams, Bruce Pearl, John Calipari and Kelvin Sampson do.
This is unacceptable and must be fixed. Now.
The 28 Highest-Paid College Basketball Coaches in 2020
The NCAA still won't pay its players, but schools are able to give the coaches millions. Here are this season's highest-paid coaches.
STEVE FIORILLO
MAR 3, 2020 2:55 PM EST
These are the 28 highest-paid coaches in all of college basketball for 2019-20 using information from Stadium.
1. Mike Krzyzewski, Duke
Salary: $8.98 million
Who else could it have been? Coach K has been the head coach of Duke since 1980. They've made the NCAA tournament in 35 of the last 36 seasons, are well on their way to another one and haven't missed it since the 1994-95 season. And even in that season, Coach K coached just 12 games before leaving for injury treatment. He has presided over five NCAA Championship teams, with an additional three teams that lost but made the finals. He's the only coach in men's college basketball history to win 1,000 games with a single team, a feat he accomplished en route to winning the most games of any college basketball coach in NCAA history. It would've been more surprising if he wasn't No. 1.
2. John Calipari, Kentucky
Salary: $8.04 million
No matter what school Calipari coaches in, he has never been far from some sort of controversy. But his record as a coach has kept him around. With the exception of a brief NBA stint in the late 90s, Calipari has been a head coach in the NCAA since 1988, and has coached Kentucky since 2009. In that stint with the Wildcats he has won one championship, made another Finals appearance, made the Final Four two other times and has three other appearances in the Elite Eight. It's been an impressive run, to say the least.
3. Mick Cronin, UCLA
Salary: $5.5 million
Cronin is in the first year of his contract as head coach of the Bruins. A head coach in the Division I world since 2003, Cronin has seen a lot of success at programs that didn't have the resources or name brand UCLA does. Coaching Murray State for 3 years from 2003-06, his teams went 69-24 and made the NCAA tournament twice. From there he was hired by Cincinnati, where he coached for 13 seasons. Before leaving for UCLA, his Bearcats teams had made the NCAA tournament in nine consecutive seasons, peaking with a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2012.
4. Rick Barnes, Tennessee
Salary: $4.7 million
Rick Barnes is in his 5th season with Tennessee, steadily improving both their record and their success in the NCAA tournament. Prior to his tenure as Volunteers coach he was with Texas for 17 seasons, as well as having head coaching stints with George Mason, Providence and Clemson. After getting Tennessee to the Sweet Sixteen in 2019, Barnes was rewarded with a lucrative new contract extension worth $26 million.
5. Bill Self, Kansas
Salary: $4.48 million
Bill Self has led Kansas to the NCAA tournament every year he has been head coach since he started in 2003. He also made it the three years prior as coach of Illinois, and the two years before that as well as coach of Tulsa. That is 21 straight tournament appearances for Self, with a championship to show for it with his 2007-08 Jayhawks team. He's also certain to make it 22 straight this season. He is currently in the midst of a 10-year contract, having solidified himself at one of the best college programs.
6. Chris Beard, Texas Tech
Salary: $4.2 million
Chris Beard is a newcomer to this list, and has coached for a fraction of the time some of the others on this list have. But that's what happens when you take a team to its first ever National Championship game in just your third season, as Beard did with Texas Tech last year. Though they lost in overtime to Virginia, the season was the most successful one in Red Raiders history. Texas Tech wasted no time in making sure they keep Beard around, signing him to a 6-year, $27.45 million contract extension.
7. Roy Williams, North Carolina
Salary: $4.04 million
The Roy Williams era at UNC has been a phenomenally successful one, culminating in NCAA tournament championships in 2005 (just his second season with the Tar Heels), 2009 and 2017. Williams made a fourth appearance in the NCAA finals with North Carolina in 2016, and also appeared there in 2003 during his final season as Kansas head coach. Though 2019-20 has not been a season to remember for North Carolina, Williams has been one of the most consistently successful head coaches in college basketball since he started in 1988.
8. Chris Mack, Louisville
Salary: $4 million
Chris Mack is currently in his second season with the Cardinals, having gotten Louisville to the first round of the NCAA tournament in his first. Prior to this, Mack had seen some success as the head coach of Xavier from 2009-2018, making the Elite Eight in 2017. Louisville signed Mack to a seven year contract in 2018.
9. Tom Izzo, Michigan State
Salary: $3.957 million
Izzo is in his 25th season coaching Michigan State, and is currently riding a 22-year NCAA tournament streak with a 23rd consecutive appearance likely. His Spartans won the tournament once, in the 1999-00 season, and reached the final game again in 2008-09, losing to North Carolina. Izzo and his Spartans team are trying to return to a similar level of glory, having failed to make it past the second round for three consecutive seasons amidst a scandal involving sexual assault allegations against former Michigan State athletes before returning to the Final Four in 2019.
10. Bob Huggins, West Virginia
Salary: $3.955 million
Huggins has never won the NCAA tournament despite being a head coach since 1980. But throughout his career he has consistently built programs that contend year in and year out, and that is true of his West Virginia team, which he has coached since 2007. They've made the Sweet Sixteen in three of the last four tournaments, and they're hoping to go well beyond that this year; Huggins has never made it past the Final Four in his career. After a disappointing 2018-19 season, Huggins' Mountaineers have rebounded this season and could be looking at a return to the NCAA tournament.
11. Bruce Pearl, Auburn
Salary: $3.8 million
Bruce Pearl saw great success in the mid to late-2000s as coach of Tennessee - that is, of course, until NCAA violations led to the team firing him in 2011. That didn't stop Tigers fans from welcoming him with open arms when Auburn announced his hiring in 2014. Pearl's Auburn teams struggled in his first three years but broke through to make the NCAA tournament in 2018, falling in the second round. They then took a massive step forward in the 2019 tournament, making it all the way to the Final Four.
12. Larry Krystkowiak, Utah
Salary: $3.77 million
Krystkowiak actually played in the NBA for years before coaching with teams like the Bucks, Spurs, Bulls and Lakers. He had coached at both the college level (for Montana) and the NBA level (the Bucks) before becoming the Utes head coach in 2011, where he proceeded to rebuild a struggling team into a perennial contender. But since a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2015 and a second-round exit in 2016, the team has failed to make the tournament despite solid seasons.
13. Gregg Marshall, Wichita State
Salary: $3.5 million
Gregg Marshall has done an impressive job of taking a Wichita State program with a spotty history and turning them into a team that has now made seven consecutive NCAA tournaments. Their greatest success came in 2013 when Marshall took the team to the Final Four, upsetting both the No. 1 seed (Gonzaga) and No. 2 seed (Ohio State) in the Western Regional conference before falling to eventual champion Louisville.
14. Archie Miller, Indiana
Salary: $3.31 million
Archie Miller is just 41 years old, and his first season with Indiana wasn't the most successful. But Miller was hired to help rebuild the storied Hoosiers franchise after his success coaching the Dayton Flyers. Before he left to take the Hoosiers job, Dayton had made 4 consecutive NCAA tournaments, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2014.
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15. Lon Kruger, Oklahoma
Salary: $3.3 million
Kruger's career has brought him plenty of success. Oklahoma is the fifth college team he's brought to the NCAA tournament in his career along with Kansas State, Florida, Illinois and ULNV. He also had an NBA stint coaching the Atlanta Hawks. But it's been here at Oklahoma that he has seen some of his greatest success, advancing all the way to the Final Four back in 2016. It was his first Final Four appearance since his Florida team in 1994.
16. Shaka Smart, Texas
Salary: $3.3 million
Smart is entering his fourth season with the Longhorns, trying to get them past the first round of the NCAA tournament where they stalled out in two of his first three years. They did not reach the tournament in 2019, but did win the National Invitation Tournament. Smart got to Texas after an impressive career at VCU, where his Rams never won fewer than 26 games in any of his six seasons. He is likely best known still as the coach who stunned the 2011 NCAA tournament, leading an 11th ranked VCU team to the Final Four via several upsets, including No. 1-seed Kansas.
17. Tom Crean, Georgia
Salary: $3.2 million
Tom Crean was hired by Georgia in 2018 to try and improve the Bulldogs and turn them into a bigger contender. Prior to Georgia, Crean was the head coach of Marquette for 9 seasons and Indiana for another 9. His most notable season was at Marquette in 2002-03, when his Golden Eagles made it to the Final Four before falling to Kansas. At Indiana, he got the Hoosiers to the Sweet Sixteen three times, most recently in 2016.
18. Dana Altman, Oregon
Salary: $3.125 million
In his 16 seasons with Creighton from 1994-2010, Dana Altman made the team a consistent player in the NCAA tournament before leaving for the Ducks. He has seen even greater tournament success since joining Oregon, making the team a Pac-12 powerhouse and reaching the Elite Eight in 2016 and the Final Four in 2017. It was Altman's first ever appearance in the Final Four, and Oregon's first appearance since they won the inaugural NCAA tournament in 1939.
19. Frank Martin, South Carolina
Salary: $3.05 million
In Martin's first season with the Gamecocks they won 14 games. By the 2015-16 season, they were up to a 25-win season. South Carolina rewarded Martin with a hefty new contract, and he rewarded the program by taking the team to the NCAA tournament in 2017, making it all the way to the program's first ever Final Four appearance, losing to Gonzaga. But the team regressed and failed to make the tournament in the next two seasons.
20. Tony Bennett, Virginia
Salary: $3.025 million
Big things were expected of Virginia last year, and a big reason for that was Bennett once again at the helm. They were also looking for some redemption, though. Bennett has turned the Cavs into one of the strongest teams in college basketball since he took over in 2009, and the 2017-18 was to be the pinnacle of it. They went 31-3 and were given the No. 1 seed in the South Regional. But the team was stunned, and became the first top-seeded team in the history of the NCAA tournament to ever lose to a No. 16 seed, as UMBC defeated them handily. That Cavaliers team wanted revenge in 2016 and they got it, making it all the way to the finals where they beat Texas Tech in overtime for Bennett's first championship as head coach.
21. Kelvin Sampson, Houston
Salary: 3 million
Prior to his tenure with Houston, Sampson had not been a head coach in several years, after a number of NCAA violations led to his resignation from Indiana in 2008 and a five-year show-cause order on him. He worked as an assistant in the NBA until that order ended, at which point Houston hired him in 2014. Houston steadily improved under Sampson, culminating in a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2019.
22. Chris Holtmann, Ohio State
Salary: $3 million
Holtmann is in just his third season with the Buckeyes, but he came over as a highly sought-after candidate. Currently age 48, he was lured to Ohio State after an impressive three-year tenure as head coach at Butler, taking the Bulldogs all the way to the Sweet Sixteen in his third season. His first Ohio State season, in 2017-18, saw the team improve their record by eight games from the previous season and make the NCAA tournament, losing to Gonzaga in the second round. They made it to the second round again in 2019 but fell to Houston.
23. Mark Turgeon, Maryland
Salary: $2.96 million
Turgeon has built several different programs into consistent contenders in his career with the NCAA, going from Wichita State to Texas A&M before settling into his current job coaching the Terrapins. After failing to make the tournament in Turgeon's first three years, Maryland made three straight tournaments 2015-17, making the Sweet Sixteen in 2016. In 2018, though, found the Terrapins on the outside looking in come tournament time, and they failed to make it past the second round in 2019.
24. Brad Underwood, Illinois
Salary: $2.95 million
Brad Underwood's NCAA coaching career started at Stephen F. Austin, where his teams made the tournament in all three seasons he coached and pulled off first-round upsets twice. From there he went to Oklahoma State and brought them to the NCAA tournament, and after one season there he signed a contract for his current job at Illinois. But despite Underwood's large contract, Illinois underperformed in his first two seasons. 2019-20, though, has been a much more successful one for the Fighting Illini, fighting for a potential spot in the NCAA tournament.
25. Cuonzo Martin, Missouri
Salary: $2.9 million
Martin is now in his third year with Missouri. Prior to that, he spent three seasons at Cal and three seasons at Tennessee, with one NCAA tournament each to show for it. He brought the Tigers to the first round of the tournament in 2018, but failed to make it in 2019 and likely won't be in the 2020 tournament. Martin made the Sweet Sixteen in his final year at Tennessee but has not made it beyond that as a head coach yet.
26. Kermit Davis, Ole Miss
Salary: $2.85 million
Davis is in his second year as the Ole Miss head coach, having brought them to the NCAA tournament in 2019 (they lost in the first round). Davis started his head coaching career in 1988 when he began at Idaho. He got Idaho to the tournament in two consecutive seasons before leaving for Texas A&M - where he resigned after a season for rules violations. From 2002-2018, he was head coach for Middle Tennessee.
27. Sean Miller, Arizona
Salary: $2.8 million
Miller hasn't brought Arizona a championship like coach Lute Olson did over 20 years ago, but as head coach since 2009 he has consistently kept the team in contention and led them into the NCAA tournament. He has yet to make it past the Elite Eight in his career, both at Arizona and at his previous head coaching position at Xavier. But he has kept the program a successful one, rebuilding the first year with the Wildcats and making them a contender again.
28. Dan Hurley, UConn
Salary: $2.8 million
Hurley is in his second season with Connecticut, having coached them to a 16-17 record in 2018-19. His first two seasons as a head coach in the NCAA were at Wagner from 2010-12, taking them from 13-17 in his first season to 25-6 in his second. From there, he went to Rhode Island from 2012-18. Hurley steadily improved the Rams program and got them to the NCAA tournament in his final two seasons with them, falling in the second round of both tournaments.
LINK: https://www.thestreet.com/lifestyle/sports/highest-paid-college-basketball-coaches-14774331
Salary: $3.3 million
Kruger's career has brought him plenty of success. Oklahoma is the fifth college team he's brought to the NCAA tournament in his career along with Kansas State, Florida, Illinois and ULNV. He also had an NBA stint coaching the Atlanta Hawks. But it's been here at Oklahoma that he has seen some of his greatest success, advancing all the way to the Final Four back in 2016. It was his first Final Four appearance since his Florida team in 1994.
16. Shaka Smart, Texas
Salary: $3.3 million
Smart is entering his fourth season with the Longhorns, trying to get them past the first round of the NCAA tournament where they stalled out in two of his first three years. They did not reach the tournament in 2019, but did win the National Invitation Tournament. Smart got to Texas after an impressive career at VCU, where his Rams never won fewer than 26 games in any of his six seasons. He is likely best known still as the coach who stunned the 2011 NCAA tournament, leading an 11th ranked VCU team to the Final Four via several upsets, including No. 1-seed Kansas.
17. Tom Crean, Georgia
Salary: $3.2 million
Tom Crean was hired by Georgia in 2018 to try and improve the Bulldogs and turn them into a bigger contender. Prior to Georgia, Crean was the head coach of Marquette for 9 seasons and Indiana for another 9. His most notable season was at Marquette in 2002-03, when his Golden Eagles made it to the Final Four before falling to Kansas. At Indiana, he got the Hoosiers to the Sweet Sixteen three times, most recently in 2016.
18. Dana Altman, Oregon
Salary: $3.125 million
In his 16 seasons with Creighton from 1994-2010, Dana Altman made the team a consistent player in the NCAA tournament before leaving for the Ducks. He has seen even greater tournament success since joining Oregon, making the team a Pac-12 powerhouse and reaching the Elite Eight in 2016 and the Final Four in 2017. It was Altman's first ever appearance in the Final Four, and Oregon's first appearance since they won the inaugural NCAA tournament in 1939.
19. Frank Martin, South Carolina
Salary: $3.05 million
In Martin's first season with the Gamecocks they won 14 games. By the 2015-16 season, they were up to a 25-win season. South Carolina rewarded Martin with a hefty new contract, and he rewarded the program by taking the team to the NCAA tournament in 2017, making it all the way to the program's first ever Final Four appearance, losing to Gonzaga. But the team regressed and failed to make the tournament in the next two seasons.
20. Tony Bennett, Virginia
Salary: $3.025 million
Big things were expected of Virginia last year, and a big reason for that was Bennett once again at the helm. They were also looking for some redemption, though. Bennett has turned the Cavs into one of the strongest teams in college basketball since he took over in 2009, and the 2017-18 was to be the pinnacle of it. They went 31-3 and were given the No. 1 seed in the South Regional. But the team was stunned, and became the first top-seeded team in the history of the NCAA tournament to ever lose to a No. 16 seed, as UMBC defeated them handily. That Cavaliers team wanted revenge in 2016 and they got it, making it all the way to the finals where they beat Texas Tech in overtime for Bennett's first championship as head coach.
21. Kelvin Sampson, Houston
Salary: 3 million
Prior to his tenure with Houston, Sampson had not been a head coach in several years, after a number of NCAA violations led to his resignation from Indiana in 2008 and a five-year show-cause order on him. He worked as an assistant in the NBA until that order ended, at which point Houston hired him in 2014. Houston steadily improved under Sampson, culminating in a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2019.
22. Chris Holtmann, Ohio State
Salary: $3 million
Holtmann is in just his third season with the Buckeyes, but he came over as a highly sought-after candidate. Currently age 48, he was lured to Ohio State after an impressive three-year tenure as head coach at Butler, taking the Bulldogs all the way to the Sweet Sixteen in his third season. His first Ohio State season, in 2017-18, saw the team improve their record by eight games from the previous season and make the NCAA tournament, losing to Gonzaga in the second round. They made it to the second round again in 2019 but fell to Houston.
23. Mark Turgeon, Maryland
Salary: $2.96 million
Turgeon has built several different programs into consistent contenders in his career with the NCAA, going from Wichita State to Texas A&M before settling into his current job coaching the Terrapins. After failing to make the tournament in Turgeon's first three years, Maryland made three straight tournaments 2015-17, making the Sweet Sixteen in 2016. In 2018, though, found the Terrapins on the outside looking in come tournament time, and they failed to make it past the second round in 2019.
24. Brad Underwood, Illinois
Salary: $2.95 million
Brad Underwood's NCAA coaching career started at Stephen F. Austin, where his teams made the tournament in all three seasons he coached and pulled off first-round upsets twice. From there he went to Oklahoma State and brought them to the NCAA tournament, and after one season there he signed a contract for his current job at Illinois. But despite Underwood's large contract, Illinois underperformed in his first two seasons. 2019-20, though, has been a much more successful one for the Fighting Illini, fighting for a potential spot in the NCAA tournament.
25. Cuonzo Martin, Missouri
Salary: $2.9 million
Martin is now in his third year with Missouri. Prior to that, he spent three seasons at Cal and three seasons at Tennessee, with one NCAA tournament each to show for it. He brought the Tigers to the first round of the tournament in 2018, but failed to make it in 2019 and likely won't be in the 2020 tournament. Martin made the Sweet Sixteen in his final year at Tennessee but has not made it beyond that as a head coach yet.
26. Kermit Davis, Ole Miss
Salary: $2.85 million
Davis is in his second year as the Ole Miss head coach, having brought them to the NCAA tournament in 2019 (they lost in the first round). Davis started his head coaching career in 1988 when he began at Idaho. He got Idaho to the tournament in two consecutive seasons before leaving for Texas A&M - where he resigned after a season for rules violations. From 2002-2018, he was head coach for Middle Tennessee.
27. Sean Miller, Arizona
Salary: $2.8 million
Miller hasn't brought Arizona a championship like coach Lute Olson did over 20 years ago, but as head coach since 2009 he has consistently kept the team in contention and led them into the NCAA tournament. He has yet to make it past the Elite Eight in his career, both at Arizona and at his previous head coaching position at Xavier. But he has kept the program a successful one, rebuilding the first year with the Wildcats and making them a contender again.
28. Dan Hurley, UConn
Salary: $2.8 million
Hurley is in his second season with Connecticut, having coached them to a 16-17 record in 2018-19. His first two seasons as a head coach in the NCAA were at Wagner from 2010-12, taking them from 13-17 in his first season to 25-6 in his second. From there, he went to Rhode Island from 2012-18. Hurley steadily improved the Rams program and got them to the NCAA tournament in his final two seasons with them, falling in the second round of both tournaments.
LINK: https://www.thestreet.com/lifestyle/sports/highest-paid-college-basketball-coaches-14774331
Because it’s not easier to recruit to MSU, Michigan, PU, IU, Illinois, Maryland, Wisconsin, and OSU.
Since we’re playing the “if” game, if Fran coached at any of the schools above he’d have at least one Final Four.
LOL, Franisdaman, lumping Fran into the top 28 coaches you mentioned in those 2 posts.
Until Fran equals those coaches in recruiting and on court accomplishments he's not close to worthy of that kind of money. Not even close. If Barta threw that kind of money at Fran there would be a fire storm of epic proportions, you know it, and everyone know's it. For god sake!
Until Fran equals those coaches in recruiting and on court accomplishments he's not close to worthy of that kind of money. Not even close. If Barta threw that kind of money at Fran there would be a fire storm of epic proportions, you know it, and everyone know's it. For god sake!
You are really impressed with these cheaters who made the list?
Bill Self, Sean Miller, Roy Williams, Bruce Pearl, John Calipari and Kelvin Sampson.
Ive got to know which 6-8 coaches have proven to be better.
Pikiell
Chambers
Collins
Howard
Hoiberg
Pitino
Underwood
Holtmann
Gard
If Fran coached at Michigan Indiana Illinois Ohio State Maryland or Purdue he would have a final four
Iowa spends near the bottom of the Big in recruiting budget, Iowa invests near the bottom of the Big on the basketball program, Tell me why we as fans should honestly expect our basketball program to excel if the administration doesn’t want to invest the money?
You may not like Fran, We all wish the program would do better, But again I ask an honest question, Why should Fran be expected to compete at the highest level, Attaining sweet sixteens etc, When the money isn’t allocated to compete in even the top half of the Big 10?
UNI would never sniff the tourney if they played in the Big 10, Now do you care to answer the question I asked?
You are just making excuses. Fran has everything he needs to be more than successful at Iowa.
You get what you pay for. Whether Fran is the coach or whomever is next, If you truly want the program to go to a higher level you had better be willing to invest in the product.
Like that's going to hurt Iowa's recruiting....LOL I'm sure other coaches are just beside them-selves for not recruiting a bunch of 3 star recruits..
But you say, he recruited Luka! Yes he did, he was the first power 5 coach to offer him a scholarship, nice find along with Aaron White, but there was absolutely no way in hell he envisioned Luka turning out as he has. Hard work and determination is what shaped Luka to what he is today, but he is a once in a generation player that Fran will find hard to replace.
You can also say that C.J. Fredrick, a player from Cincinnati, was a gift of the gods for Fran. How many quality players like C.J. are willing to walk on to a University because their coach had a connection with an uncle. Not many I'm guessing.
The one major fault I'm seeing now, is Fran didn't provide Luka enough bench support or 3 point shooters to help Luka out, but as I said, after recruiting Luka coach had no clue Luka would turn out like he has....of course isn't that always the Iowa way.
I love Bohannan, Wieskamp, Fredrick, Luka, Toussaint, Kriener, Nunge, Pemsl, and departed players of Baer, Cook, Dailey, and other players that have made Iowa their home, but the last 4 years have ended 19-15,14-19, 23-12, and so far this year 20-10. Good, but not great by any means.
Let's see Iowa put together a year that most blue bloods think is an average year and then our AD can agree with an extension and raise. Sounds good to me.
You clearly didn't go through Dr. Tom's lame duck year. You either just want Fran gone or you think all coaches should just be on one-year contracts.
All of the recruiting is garbage, except for the good recruits, which we won't give him credit for because...well...other stuff.
If this is the case, then that's all on Fran for this to continue. It's the same with reseating the students. If Fran had the balls to do it, he should have wanted that accomplished in his second year, but instead kept things status quo.
Barta hired Fran to take over the program that was in shambles and Fran had the clout at the time to not only insist that the students be moved behind the benches but also have his recruiting budget increased to acceptable Big Ten levels.
I doubt Barta would have fired Fran if he had made those demands. Who knows it may have changed the dynamics of Iowa basketball.
Listen, Fran has his faults, but this year he did a pretty good job of coaching, and should at least get a mention for coach of the year in the Big....losing Cook, Moss, Dailey, Nunge, Bohannan, and Patrick and still get a descent seed in the NCAA tournament is more then any Iowa fan could hope for this year.
He hit a home run with Garza, and Fredrick is quite a bonus, but history still has to be written for the remainder of this year and next if everyone returns, It could very well become a turning point in his coaching career at Iowa and maybe the extension and increase in salary that Franisdaman wants him to get....
P.S. His coaching and overall recruiting still has to improve, his coaching philosophy is never going to change but he needs to teach defense and rebounding to off set nights that the ball doesn't go though the net. Something that is foreign to him and his staff. That's my main complaint I have with him, nothing is going to change if he doesn't fulfill those improvements.
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Fran is a top 20 coach. Iowa does not have near the talent that most Big Ten teams do. Frans scheme on offense and defense keep us competitive. He’s a mastermind at out of bounds plays as well
LOL
Leaving the lack of NBA talent aside,... teams that don’t play defense don’t typically make final fours.
The Body of Work*
TEN years.
Three NCAA wins (zero sweet sixteen appearances).
Three Big Ten Tournament wins
Not a single season in legitimate contention for conference regular season title.
This has been a fun year (thank you, Luka Garza), and it’s not over yet but we should all remember the immortal words of Winston Wolf when it comes to showering money and extensions on Fran.
*TM Fran McCaffery LLC
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Fran should follow the Big Dick Pitino and Bill Self recruiting models.
Hire hookers when recruits visit.
Pay 5 star recruits' parents and handlers at least $10,000 each.
Just win, baby!
Hire hookers when recruits visit.
Pay 5 star recruits' parents and handlers at least $10,000 each.
Just win, baby!
Two things:
1) Who recruits that talent?
2) Effort is one of the bigger issues with both defense and rebounding. Is effort related to talent?
I don’t think it has anything to do with effort. I think defense is not made a priority because the guiding philosophy is that the best defense is a good offense. And no one can deny that Fran knows how to coach offense. Additionally, I think that a consequence of this philosophy is that our defensive scouting and scheming are comparatively weak. See e.g., Purdue II — how the heck does that happen?
lots and lots and lots of clean programs recruit better than Iowa.
it’s so tiresome and lame to hear the “everyone but us cheats” excuse.
Shit happens!
And .. You probably don't want to see what Kentucky did in their last home game ... led by 11 over unranked Tennessee at halftime and then was outscored 50-31 in the 2nd half to lose by 8.
You laugh, but you also defend EVERYTHING Fran.
Given Iowa doesn't exactly score a ton of points in transition, nor early in the shot clock, I can argue that the team would benefit from placing a bit more emphasis on defensive effort and rebounding.
I know you watched the Purdue game. Maybe you're one of the fans that blame the officials for that type of effort, I don't know.
Uh, we were a game out with 2 to play on Tuesday, I consider that legit contention for a title.
