The Fran Fade has started

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I got it from here:

Fran McCaffery signs contract extension with Iowa through 2027-28 season

McCaffery will be 68 years old when his latest contract extension expires.

www.hawkcentral.com

"If McCaffery were to be fired by the university, he would be owed 60% of his remaining base salary. For example, if Iowa fired him after next season, he would be owed $7.38 million. "

Devries

 

[GMackey32]

Unless a donor is personally footing the bill for Fran's dismissal, I have a hard time believing Beth will be allowed to spend that kind of dough when they still the University millions from 2020.

 

[FerShizzle]

The financials of hiring DeVries is a good point.

The question that we’ll see about after the season is whether Fran is ready to move on or not. If so there will likely be a negotiated agreement that works for both him and UI. He’s made enough $$$ he’ll be fine.

Now, if he’s not ready to be done, he should hold out for all he’s owed.

They are also going to need pay up for a new football coach soon. New coaches are pricier than old ones in this new big 10. Football is priority #1 by a mile. They aren’t going to empty the piggy bank (which is already quite empty) before they get football coaching figured out.

My heart and brain are both telling me year 16 is a go for launch.

Or maybe they just max out some credit cards and pretend to be rich for a while longer.

 

[CychiatricWard]

In this age of immediate eligibility, it wouldn't take long for Devries to turn Iowa around. I think he waits on the Creighton job if he is to move.

Don’t tell Fran that. Still pulling out from under the lickliter years in year 16. It takes awhile guys….

 

[1SEIACLONE]

The financials of hiring DeVries is a good point.

The question that we’ll see about after the season is whether Fran is ready to move on or not. If so there will likely be a negotiated agreement that works for both him and UI. He’s made enough $$$ he’ll be fine.

Now, if he’s not ready to be done, he should hold out for all he’s owed.

Why would he be willing to walk away from roughly $10 million dollars and take less than half that to quit? The guy is still recruiting players for next season, and has given no indication that this will be it for him at EIU. The EIU fan base seems to think that he will follow his youngest son to Butler, to watch him play and walk away from the money that he is owed.

 

[CyCity]

Why would he be willing to walk away from roughly $10 million dollars and take less than half that to quit? The guy is still recruiting players for next season, and has given no indication that this will be it for him at EIU. The EIU fan base seems to think that he will follow his youngest son to Butler, to watch him play and walk away from the money that he is owed.

He’s not walking away from his money.

 

[alarson]

Unless a donor is personally footing the bill for Fran's dismissal, I have a hard time believing Beth will be allowed to spend that kind of dough when they still the University millions from 2020.

Its getting to the point they won't be able to afford not to. The hole he's digging will only be harder and harder to dig out of.

 

[Tailg8er]

 

[ScottyP]

Unless a donor is personally footing the bill for Fran's dismissal, I have a hard time believing Beth will be allowed to spend that kind of dough when they still the University millions from 2020.

The fanbase just doesn't care enough about Iowa men's hoops to write the check. They care more about women's hoops at this point.

 

[cycloner29]

Beth is in a pickle. With the EMBARRASSING apathy/attendance for men's basketball, she knows she can't ride this out for a couple more years with a lame duck coach who everyone wants gone, but she doesn't have the money to hire DeVries away from WVU since:

• Her athletic department owes the University for the $50 million they borrowed during COVID.
• It would cost several million to fire Fran.
• It would cost several million or more (?) to cover DeVries's buyout from WVU.
• She'd have to give DeVries a very handsome contract to get him to take over the dumpster fire.
• And oh by the way, she has to have $20 million left over to pay all the Iowa athletes starting next year.

The only way I can see Beth pulling the trigger on Fran this season is if she has an excellent candidate waiting in the wings that she can get for a reasonable price.

I just wanted to stop by and say "Hi".

 

[Cyclonepride]

How do you fade if you were never good?

This is how I see it. In some other years, he has had good teams fall apart in key stretches, but this team looks like one with a few talented players where confidence can carry you through the early part of the year, but once that's lost, the whole thing reverts to their overall ability level, which right now, isn't good.

 

[JP4CY]

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[awd4cy]

That was for DeVries's buyout from WV, throw in Mad Fran's buyout and you are pushing $10 million between the two of the them, that would not include the EIU asst. coaches and the new contract for DeVries, which would have to start above what he is currently making at WV. Throw in the fact that EIU is currently in debt to the tune of $235 million. Unless some wealthy booster is coming up with a large check to handle most of the buyouts, I would guess that EIU will give him one more season to right the ship. Mad Fran is still recruiting like he is planning on being back next season, and they will return quite a few players off this years team, next season unless they jump into the portal.

I can’t remember. Isn’t 10 mil about what our buyout for Prohm was and buying Otz contract to come here?

 

[carvers4math]

The parents need to stay the hell away from Indy until Connor closes the deal

 

[KennyPratt42]

I can’t remember. Isn’t 10 mil about what our buyout for Prohm was and buying Otz contract to come here?

Around $8.7m I believe, $5.3m to buy out Prohm and $3.4m to UNLV.

 

[Malone]

Around $8.7m I believe, $5.3m to buy out Prohm and $3.4m to UNLV.

This makes me angry all over again. Shame on Prohm for scurrying away with $5.3 million and giving us Jeff Beverly and Merrill Holden. There was a time in the not-so-distant past where shame and morality governed weasels like him

Not surprising he’s bringing down a once-proud Murray St program too

I’m sure Fran will procure a similar buyout.

 

[Pope]

The financials of hiring DeVries is a good point.

The question that we’ll see about after the season is whether Fran is ready to move on or not. If so there will likely be a negotiated agreement that works for both him and UI. He’s made enough $$$ he’ll be fine.

Now, if he’s not ready to be done, he should hold out for all he’s owed.

Agree. If Fran does leave after this season, it will be a two-way decision and spun as a "retirement" with a negotiated payoff. They don't want to fire their coach who has the most wins in Iowa history and, even if they did, they're not in the financial position at this time to make it happen.

 

[CloneLawman]

 

[Pope]

The fanbase just doesn't care enough about Iowa men's hoops to write the check. They care more about women's hoops at this point.

Heck, they'd care more about women's rowing if they were any good at it. They are the definition of fair weather fans.

 

[Cyched]

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