Sean Miller on Wiretap Talking $100,000 Payment
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Source article for the passages below: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...dre-ayton-signing-according-fbi-investigation
Miller's contract provides that even if he is fired with cause, the university would have to pay his base salary. The contract defines his base salary as his salary plus his peripheral salary. That adds up to roughly $10.3 million through May 2022. The only part that Miller wouldn't be entitled to is $1.7 million from Nike and IMG that is due to him if he completes his contract.
Keeping such a percentage on a firing for cause would be unprecedented. Most coaches who are fired for cause receive no additional money past their employment date. But the contract has no provision that waives the university's obligation to pay Miller what is owed based on an NCAA violation. The contract makes no mention of the university's recourse if criminality is involved.
Did Gary Barta negotiate that for Arizona too?
After years of defending big programs and insisting they didn't cheat (remember how he handled the UNC scandal) Dickie V flips like a switch. Now completely contradicting himself by suddenly arguing players should be allowed to receive benefits or paid. That tells you a lot about how bad this going to get among the top tier of basketball schools.
I certainly hope so. But how that contract got all the necessary approvals is incredible to me.
I think they just didn't pay attention or didn't care.
If they give him that money it'll end up a hundred times worse for them.
Yeah, committing a crime while in the act of performing your duties seems really likely to be something that doesn't need to be in writing to void a contract.
Even his tweets are disjointed and hard to follow.
Wow. Carlisle must have misheard the question as, "What are your earliest memories of watching the NBA?"
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Jay Bilas coming up on SC at 8am. Can't wait to hear what he has to say about his buddy at AZ.
It’ll be morphed into how these players are taken advantage of, per usual.
The problem with his argument is he typically basis it on the merits of fairness. I’d say it’s time to recognize the market is demanding more compensation for players.
Nah, just shows he can multi-task, texting while kissing Coach K's ass. Guy's still just a cheer clown for the blue bloods.
I've done business with universities. They are generally what I would call "over-lawyered".
Amateurism has LONG since passed. As soon as money started coming in from TV the sport was a black market. The way to end black markets is make it legal.
This is just the discovery phase where the sham can no longer be hidden.
Before that. As soon as the quality of play correlated to the quality of the players offering those players more than the competition happens.
Is any of this really a big surprise to anyone on here? It shouldn't. Especially a Cyclone fan who lost players like Vaughn and Juiston to UNLV.
I've just assumed college football and men's basketball has been corrupt for decades.
And Vitale's response is just laughable. He's been on the "inside" of college basketball for a long time, and unless he's completely stupid, he's known this stuff has been going on. But now he acts surprised and condemns it? Really? I don't remember, but did he say much about UNC a few years ago when it was found out that none of their players basically had to do any schoolwork whatsoever?
There's going to be a lot of hypocrites out there over this mess.
I've just assumed college football and men's basketball has been corrupt for decades.
And Vitale's response is just laughable. He's been on the "inside" of college basketball for a long time, and unless he's completely stupid, he's known this stuff has been going on. But now he acts surprised and condemns it? Really? I don't remember, but did he say much about UNC a few years ago when it was found out that none of their players basically had to do any schoolwork whatsoever?
There's going to be a lot of hypocrites out there over this mess.
