UK gives Calipari a 7-year, $52.5 million contract

[SoonerTraveler]

Kentucky gives coach John Calipari a new 7-year, $52.5 million contract through 2021

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2014/...new-7-year-525-million-contract-through-2021/

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky gave coach John Calipari a new seven-year, $52.5 million contract that will pay a base package of $6.5 million next season and $8 million over each of the final three seasons.

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Besides building a 152-37 record at Kentucky, Calipari has established himself as a master recruiter in landing top-three freshman classes annually. That includes next year's group which figures to make the Wildcats a title contender again, and with this contract the school appears to have locked him in for the long term.

"It has long been our goal over the last three to five years that Cal enjoy this as his final stop in coaching," athletic director Mitch Barnhart said in the release, "and that he has an opportunity to finish his career at the University of Kentucky and hopefully set standards and win championships that will be remembered for many, many years to come."

 

[CoachTalk]

4 final fours and a NC... He's making them a lot more money than they are paying him!

 

[SoonerTraveler]

4 final fours and a NC... He's making them a lot more money than they are paying him!

Plus, UK is greatly enjoying the ride. They do not want to lose him to the pros.

 

[DenverSooner]

What is OU's men's basketball revenue?

This should get Boca going on paying players.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

What is OU's men's basketball revenue?

This should get Boca going on paying players.

LOL. It will be interesting to see what direction or tangent this thread takes.

 

[MercedeSooner]

Crazy figure but to them he's worth every penny.

 

[big-hOUnd]

He's a master recruiter.

 

[bocabull]

This should get Boca going on paying players.

So your position is that Jeff Capel deserved a big raise and extension and Blake Griffin deserved zilch from OU. Gotcha.

Love it when people get all twisted in knots with their conflicting positions on how capitalism and free markets are supposed to effectively operate.

 

[DenverSooner]

So your position is that Jeff Capel deserved a big raise and extension and Blake Griffin deserved zilch from OU. Gotcha.

Love it when people get all twisted in knots with their conflicting positions on how capitalism and free markets are supposed to effectively operate.

Actually, I am a bit conflicted on paying players. I don't think the kids should suffer to the point of having no spending money but I also recognize that paying college athletes raises a lot of problems.

You seem to think the current players are entitled to virtually all of the revenue. I think that is ridiculous. When the alumni pay for the infrastructure and decade of prior expenditures have created the brand, it is unfair to take that from the University. As with most things, it seems to me the real problem is a refusal of people to search for common ground. People just want to draw lines in the sand saying it has to be this way or that way.

 

[SoonerinNC]

I'm against paying college athletes a salary. Makes a bad thing worse. We already have programs like Kentucky, Oklahoma State, Baylor et.al. where the players are probably already paid. Don't need to make it easier.

However, they should take a hard look at the current scholarship plans and make sure that student athletes have a reasonable protection from financial pressure that would take away their freedom to be a good student and good athlete. Don't mean fancy cars or the like but to live a normal life without having to scrape for finances or do without basics.

Also they should require them to work at being a student instead of taking the easy way out rather than classes they don't have to attend, a full block of African American studies with easy A's and in come cases may do little more than sell victimhood. we are all victims of the system in a some way but if we accept that we are victims we will be victims forever.

Hopefully OU does not recruit players who lack the capacity to earn a significant degree that will assist them in a good life. When I was at OU the athletes I knew attended class regularly and appeared to earn the grades they made. Hopefully it is still that way.

 

[big-hOUnd]

Calipari under investigation????

http://www.theonion.com/articles/ncaa-investigators-bust-into-john-caliparis-office,27870/