***2024-25 Mens College Basketball Thread***

cyfan92

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I for one am cheering like crazy for Fran to turn it around.. He's the man for the job now and into the future!

They've got 9 remaining Q1 games on the schedule, plenty of opportunity to make Dayton or better!
 
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He wouldn't pay anything, it would be Iowa paying.
True, but the amount would be north of $4.5M for this year. Fran is under contract until 2028, and it appears the university would owe Fran 60% of his remaining salary if he were to be fired. Put the two together, and Iowa would be paying nearly $11M to bring in DeVries for next season.

I just don't see it happening from a financial perspective alone
 
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Want to know how bad the ACC is, the league could easily get only 3 teams into the bracket...

Also, Louisville currently zero Q1 games left on their schedule until the ACC tourney. They could easily win out and challenge Duke for the ACC title, despite losing H2H on 12/8.
 

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True, but the amount would be north of $4.5M for this year. Fran is under contract until 2028, and it appears the university would owe Fran 60% of his remaining salary if he were to be fired. Put the two together, and Iowa would be paying nearly $11M to bring in DeVries for next season.

I just don't see it happening from a financial perspective alone
Lol yep puts donors in a tough spot
Beth is on line 1 to buy out Fran
Brad is on line 2 to pay another broken down QB
 

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Want to know how bad the ACC is, the league could easily get only 3 teams into the bracket...

Also, Louisville currently zero Q1 games left on their schedule until the ACC tourney. They could easily win out and challenge Duke for the ACC title, despite losing H2H on 12/8.
ACC doesn’t look like they are good at this NIL stuff.
 
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Kinch

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Iowa can't afford a buyout; heck, they can't even afford to pay back the university the money they borrowed to cover expenses from COVID.

If anything, Fran will "retire" after this year since his son graduates from high school, and they will relocate to Indiana. He will negotiate some kind of payout for the rest of his contract and ride off into the sunset.

As for DeVries, why would you want that dumpster fire? If Fran leaves, who stays, Harding, young Sandfort, Mulvey? Dix and Freeman will go portaling, and the freshmen don't play, so who knows what you are getting with them? That program will be a complete rebuild if Fran leaves.
Why would Fran leave money on the table?
 

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Why would Fran leave money on the table?
If he is "fired," he gets 60% of his remaining base salary, which is 10.8 million. The 60% buyout is 6.48 million dollars (2025-2028). I'm sure he'd be happy not to coach and make 2.16 million dollars for the last three years of his contract. A good lawyer will negotiate a nice payout so Fran never has to worry about money.

If McCaffery were to be fired by the university, he would be owed 60% of his remaining base salary.

 

Kinch

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If he is "fired," he gets 60% of his remaining base salary, which is 10.8 million. The 60% buyout is 6.48 million dollars (2025-2028). I'm sure he'd be happy not to coach and make 2.16 million dollars for the last three years of his contract. A good lawyer will negotiate a nice payout so Fran never has to worry about money.

If McCaffery were to be fired by the university, he would be owed 60% of his remaining base salary.

I’m just responding to comments that Fran would quit or negotiate a settlement. Fran has all the leverage. Beth doesn’t.
 
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Kinch

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Only way DeVries comes is if they guarantee a chunk of NIL. Kirk would veto that. I guess these Hawkeye fans are not the brightest so there is always that chance that he wants to yell go hawks at random people.
Iowa had two chances to win a natty in women’s basketball and the Swarm spent $500,000 on McNamara.
 

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I think a family member would have gone to this week’s penn State game, but probably is worried that his 10 year old boy would put a grocery sack over his head and get banned for life
 
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