I'm not too familiar with contracts and law.. So maybe this is a dumb question, but why would Fran and his agent necessarily need, or want, to negotiate anything? If a certain buyout is written into the contract, I wouldn't think that "deserve" is irrelevant. But again, I'm not real familiar with how these things tend to work, or how this would benefit Penn if they hire Fran. Not being a wise guy, just asking.
If Fran doesn't care about being fired, you're right, there is no negotiation. Beth would be required to pay the full buyout. But if Fran would rather "retire" or "step down", then Beth could say she'd do it that way, but part of the buyout is kept, so instead of $4M, he'd get maybe $3M. Obviously coaches have egos and alot of them don't ever want to be "fired", so they're willing to forego some of the buyout to be allowed to step down instead.
Right. And the author of the article seemed to be speculating that Fran could accept a lower salary from Penn because he'd still be getting $1.4 million a year from Iowa, at least for 3 years.
This is the real question. Almost as absurd as why a BIG10 school would keep a coach for 15 years that has never won anything.
He wouldn’t walk away from it, the buyout likely has a clause that lowers the buyout by however much he makes at a new gig.
LaSalle hired 73 year old legend Fran Dunphy who just announced retirement. One of those Big 5 schools would be a good fit for Fran
That should have happened last year. Anyway you slice it, Iowa has a lame duck piloting the ship (through either age or performance) with a very rare, top shelf option as a realistic possibility. The time to move forward is now.
Saying no scholarship for ivy is probably factually correct, but they have work arounds. They have a lot of money for college athletes via financial aid. They use that to get around scholarship limits in non rev sports so I'm sure it's no different for bball.
What part of “we had the lowest attendance in Hawkeye men’s basketball in the last 60 years” do you not understand. There is no way Beth trots Fran back out there given that.
