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The total cost of Coach Ford's contract $3.5 million

I'm glad Bradley shelled out some serious dough and gave their basketball coach more then the president makes. Even though that seems almost hypocritical at an institution centered on learning, that's how the big boys play. Most big division one basketball coaches get paid more then the school's president. Heck, UConn has TWO basketball coaches that do.

I like the hire as well, but I save my opinion of him till I talk to him face-to-face and I'll save my opinion on how good a hire it is for maybe 3 years or so.
 
sousaman2089 said:
I'm glad Bradley shelled out some serious dough and gave their basketball coach more then the president makes. Even though that seems almost hypocritical at an institution centered on learning, that's how the big boys play. Most big division one basketball coaches get paid more then the school's president. Heck, UConn has TWO basketball coaches that do.

I like the hire as well, but I save my opinion of him till I talk to him face-to-face and I'll save my opinion on how good a hire it is for maybe 3 years or so.
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How does BU pay for this???
I assume Joanne's contract states she must be the highest paid employee.... Which means she just gave herself a VERY nice raise!! And if the team does well.... she's up to a million w/ his incentives... and they are buying out two other contracts (Jim Les and Genos/Kent State contract).
WILL the BSS money continue to flow in? I KNOW the Upper Bowl money will continue to flow in...WOW!!!
 
Air Petey said:
How does BU pay for this???
I assume Joanne's contract states she must be the highest paid employee.... Which means she just gave herself a VERY nice raise!! And if the team does well.... she's up to a million w/ his incentives... and they are buying out two other contracts (Jim Les and Genos/Kent State contract).
WILL the BSS money continue to flow in? I KNOW the Upper Bowl money will continue to flow in...WOW!!!
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Raised ticket prices, fewer promotions, less advertising, raise tuition, all are options to help get the budget in line. Not saying any will happen.
 
Buesch N Chips said:
Raised ticket prices, fewer promotions, less advertising, raise tuition, all are options to help get the budget in line. Not saying any will happen.
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We have a new coach, so I bet that we have at least the same level of promotions and advertising to generate additional interest.... -- just an assumption though---
 
Air Petey said:
How does BU pay for this???
I assume Joanne's contract states she must be the highest paid employee....
WILL the BSS money continue to flow in? I KNOW the Upper Bowl money will continue to flow in...WOW!!!
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Ya know what happens when you assume...

Oh wait..too late for you.

And by the way, everyone starts as a oh so lowly upper bowl pissant. But keep disrespecting those folks, that is very respectable.
 
JMM28 said:
Ya know what happens when you assume.
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Let me state it a different way.....
"I know Joanne's contract states she must be the highest paid employee"

Sorry to assume on this website.

Everybody knows what I mean (And sorry for stereotyping), but the BSS $20,000 to million donors are lower bowl between the baselines. I'm not one of those people. I'm outside the endzones and have a very low maint. Don't take this personal.... But the bills are paid between the baselines. Everybody knows that.
 
BradleyJD said:
The best seats I ever had were first row of the Upper Bowl, Section 1.

Nothing wrong with the UB
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I sat in the upper bowl for some games and first row are GREAT seats, I agree....... I think everybody gets my drift. BSS does not sit in the upper bowl and we know who they are and see them courtside and up.

Please do not take offense when I say Upper Bowl seats. They are some good friends and great folk up there in them seats. :lol:
 
Geno Ford did win the MAC Conference two years in a row, but the MAC Conference has HALF of its teams with sub .200 RPI. Some WAY sub .200.Not exactly murders row, and he still lost 5-6 games in the regular season. The Flashes were the least worst of MAC regular season.

He never won the MAC Tournament which would have delivered an NCAA bid. In fact, he got taken out in the Quarter finals for the first two years and lost in the Finals this year. Because the quality of MAC basketball is so bad, it has one bid to the Dance. He never delivered in the MAC tourney, even after two regular season titles.

In Geno??™s three years post season years at Kent State, he was taken out in the first game of the CBI Tournament, lost in the second round of the NIT last year BADLY to an Illinois team, and made a nice run to the quarters this year. So, pretty nice payday for winning two road games in the NIT.

Bradley expects to win, so paid up. Kent State fans are kind of shocked about what one final appearance in a conference tourney and two NIT wins can but these days. A million bucks per NIT win is too rich for our blood.

Good luck to the Braves. I, for one, will be waiting to see what this amount of money can buy.
 
Thanks for your input KSUfan. You sound a little bitter. From what I can gather, most KSU fans loved Geno and were shocked and sorry to see him leave.
Do you think he'll be easy to replace?
 
I, like many Kent State fans, am bitter about the way Coach Ford left. We??™ve had success as a mid major, so are used to being a hunting ground. We??™ve had 4 head coaches over 12 years, so are used to the churn. Fans wish coaches would stay, but fans always want loyalty when they don??™t always give it. Most know deep down that a coach??™s professional life is short, and they have few shots for financial security. Plus, who really wants a coach who is complacent and doesn??™t think he deserves more? Eventually, complacent coaches create complacent teams.

The enclosed column describes why Kent State fans were stunned, and a few like me, are bitter. All of the three coaches who left ahead of Geno picked up the phone, called our AD, told them he was leaving, and created a communication plan to the team. The team whose NIT performance got Coach Ford this opportunity, the one he referred to as his ???family???, found out on Twitter, and not even from Coach Ford on Twitter. Our team deserved better.

http://www.recordpub.com/news/sports_article/5006767

Rob Senderoff is the overwhelming choice by the team and fans for our next HC. We rightfully welcomed him back home after the Indiana fiasco, and he??™s done a great job. Good game strategist and magnificent recruiter, especially for the 4 and 5 spot. He??™s currently interim head coach and is locked in for a few reasons until late May. Odds are he??™s our guy.

I??™ll say a few nice things about Coach Ford. He is a very engaging and outgoing. He??™ll be very approachable. He??™s done nice things for fans who were sick or had some bad luck. We thought this was the nice guy we knew, which is why the manner in which he departed was so stunning. As a professional, he works hard and expects the same from his team. His team members graduate, and except for a few bumps here and there, stay out of off the court trouble.

We??™ll get over it and be fine, and so will Bradley. We are a little stunned at the amount of money for an unproven post season track record, but if ya got it, spend it. The poster who indicated that mid major state schools can??™t throw that kind of cash around for an ???up and coming??? coach is exactly right.

Good luck next season. People to your West will be watching.
 
KSUFan said:
I, like many Kent State fans, am bitter about the way Coach Ford left. We??™ve had success as a mid major, so are used to being a hunting ground. We??™ve had 4 head coaches over 12 years, so are used to the churn. Fans wish coaches would stay, but fans always want loyalty when they don??™t always give it. Most know deep down that a coach??™s professional life is short, and they have few shots for financial security. Plus, who really wants a coach who is complacent and doesn??™t think he deserves more? Eventually, complacent coaches create complacent teams.

The enclosed column describes why Kent State fans were stunned, and a few like me, are bitter. All of the three coaches who left ahead of Geno picked up the phone, called our AD, told them he was leaving, and created a communication plan to the team. The team whose NIT performance got Coach Ford this opportunity, the one he referred to as his ???family???, found out on Twitter, and not even from Coach Ford on Twitter. Our team deserved better.

http://www.recordpub.com/news/sports_article/5006767

Rob Senderoff is the overwhelming choice by the team and fans for our next HC. We rightfully welcomed him back home after the Indiana fiasco, and he??™s done a great job. Good game strategist and magnificent recruiter, especially for the 4 and 5 spot. He??™s currently interim head coach and is locked in for a few reasons until late May. Odds are he??™s our guy.

I??™ll say a few nice things about Coach Ford. He is a very engaging and outgoing. He??™ll be very approachable. He??™s done nice things for fans who were sick or had some bad luck. We thought this was the nice guy we knew, which is why the manner in which he departed was so stunning. As a professional, he works hard and expects the same from his team. His team members graduate, and except for a few bumps here and there, stay out of off the court trouble.

We??™ll get over it and be fine, and so will Bradley. We are a little stunned at the amount of money for an unproven post season track record, but if ya got it, spend it. The poster who indicated that mid major state schools can??™t throw that kind of cash around for an ???up and coming??? coach is exactly right.

Good luck next season. People to your West will be watching.
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Question. Do you know of any rifts between Ford and anyone in the KSU administration? Just trying to figure out the strange way in which Ford and KSU parted ways.
 
There is part of the article linked above that I find to be extremely unprofessional from the Bradley point of view.

"A POUND OF FLESH

Bradley appears to be unwilling to meet the demands of the buyout in Ford’s contract, and that could force KSU to take legal action.

The university could expect Ford to come up with the entire $1.2 million the university believes it is owed. The contract called for a dollar-for-dollar buyout, and Ford had three years remaining on a deal worth $300,000 annually.

“We are going to have that expectation that liquidated damages are fulfilled,” said Nielsen. “Obviously, we have legal people who deal with our contracts, but our contract is very straightforward ... so we have that expectation.”

According to Nielsen, Bradley has not made an offer in the hopes that KSU would settle for less than $1.2 million."

http://www.recordpub.com/news/sports_article/5006767

:-o:-o:-o:mad::mad::mad::-o:-o:-o
 
KSUFan said:
I, like many Kent State fans, am bitter about the way Coach Ford left. We??™ve had success as a mid major, so are used to being a hunting ground. We??™ve had 4 head coaches over 12 years, so are used to the churn. Fans wish coaches would stay, but fans always want loyalty when they don??™t always give it. Most know deep down that a coach??™s professional life is short, and they have few shots for financial security. Plus, who really wants a coach who is complacent and doesn??™t think he deserves more? Eventually, complacent coaches create complacent teams.

The enclosed column describes why Kent State fans were stunned, and a few like me, are bitter. All of the three coaches who left ahead of Geno picked up the phone, called our AD, told them he was leaving, and created a communication plan to the team. The team whose NIT performance got Coach Ford this opportunity, the one he referred to as his ???family???, found out on Twitter, and not even from Coach Ford on Twitter. Our team deserved better.

http://www.recordpub.com/news/sports_article/5006767

Rob Senderoff is the overwhelming choice by the team and fans for our next HC. We rightfully welcomed him back home after the Indiana fiasco, and he??™s done a great job. Good game strategist and magnificent recruiter, especially for the 4 and 5 spot. He??™s currently interim head coach and is locked in for a few reasons until late May. Odds are he??™s our guy.

I??™ll say a few nice things about Coach Ford. He is a very engaging and outgoing. He??™ll be very approachable. He??™s done nice things for fans who were sick or had some bad luck. We thought this was the nice guy we knew, which is why the manner in which he departed was so stunning. As a professional, he works hard and expects the same from his team. His team members graduate, and except for a few bumps here and there, stay out of off the court trouble.

We??™ll get over it and be fine, and so will Bradley. We are a little stunned at the amount of money for an unproven post season track record, but if ya got it, spend it. The poster who indicated that mid major state schools can??™t throw that kind of cash around for an ???up and coming??? coach is exactly right.

Good luck next season. People to your West will be watching.
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what...is WIU going to lure him away??
 
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