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Basketball coaches on deck. This year was fun!Have been asked to take a 10% pay cut. Surprised it’s not more.
Have been asked to take a 10% pay cut. Surprised it’s not more.
If they're smart, they'll realize it will cost more in the long run to have to hire a new staff and coach. All that goodwill will go up in smoke.Basketball coaches on deck. This year was fun!
Understandable now why Greenie moved to WVU.
It had better include Chun and his entire upper administration. And Schulz and cronies too for that matter. Or they should all be "encouraged" to make major donations to Athletics.Have been asked to take a 10% pay cut. Surprised it’s not more.
I didn't know there were still rules to break.One that I can speak to is Compliance. Yes, important. Back in the day there were two guys. And remember, the # of sports and athletes has not grown. Now, A Deputy AD Director, a Director, Associate Director and Assistant Director. Oh but no one below to direct.
Oops, forgot the staff link. Take a few minutes and look at this. Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom.
Staff Directory - Washington State University Athletics
The official Roster for the Washington State University Cougarswsucougars.com
Yeah, Smith should be on the short list for any decent AD looking for a new hoops coach. He's 55 in June and has us on the verge of the Tournament after replacing 4 starters (5 if you count Jackson). He's rewarded with a pay cut, limited NIL, portal, and going back to the WCC.Say goodbye to Kyle Smith
Making Kyle or his staff take a pay cut would be the stupidest F-ing thing Sgt. Schulz (I know nothing!) and Charlie Chun (Owner of face cannot always see nose) have ever done. And they've done a lot of stupid things, especially Schulz.Yup. He is gone for sure. 🙁
Coug fans don't care enough to raise that kind of money .Making Kyle or his staff take a pay cut would be the stupidest F-ing thing Sgt. Schulz (I know nothing!) and Charlie Chun (Owner of face cannot always see nose) have ever done. And they've done a lot of stupid things, especially Schulz.
You know the more I think of this the more pissed I am. So Schulz does his little interview with Brand X, knowing that they are going to publish it. So here's a F-ing idea. Turn it into an outreach/fundraising/call to arms or whatever. Announce it from WSU, not Brand X. Say we hope it to be temporary. Announce that Chun and Schulz are doing the same to their salaries. Mention any other cost cutting and revenue enhancement measures. Make a plea to all Cougs to support Athletics and the NIL in this time of need.
Where is the fundraising effort? Nowhere I've seen. We all know we are in dire straits, but "all is well".
And finally, if all this money is coming in from the Pac-12 catastrophe, is right now the time to cut coaches salaries? Don't we have some shitpot of money to get us by for a while? And how about being transparent with that? I wish some major boosters would get pissed off and start calling BS. nothing I can do personally, I'm just a grain of sand.
Well we could try. That's kind of why we are paying all these people.Coug fans don't care enough to raise that kind of money .
WSU should be doing everything they can to keep their current MBB and WBB coaches and staff. It may be hard to afford, but they can't afford to let them go either.
If Chun and Schulz cut Kyle Smith's salary, they might as well shut down the Athletic Department. There will be some jealousy from people involved but he needs a pay raise...not a pay cut. If I were in their shoes, I would bump him to $2.7 million and say that it was based on the fact that it should have been $3 million, but he agreed to a 10% reduction below market rate just like everyone else.
More or less my point. Pay Smith (and Kamie) and keep the ball rolling. If you don't, you basically just pissed away any goodwill you have with fans, and many will ask "what's the point of even having an AD?"If Chun and Schulz cut Kyle Smith's salary, they might as well shut down the Athletic Department. There will be some jealousy from people involved but he needs a pay raise...not a pay cut. If I were in their shoes, I would bump him to $2.7 million and say that it was based on the fact that it should have been $3 million, but he agreed to a 10% reduction below market rate just like everyone else.
You and Biggs going to cover it?Making Kyle or his staff take a pay cut would be the stupidest F-ing thing Sgt. Schulz (I know nothing!) and Charlie Chun (Owner of face cannot always see nose) have ever done. And they've done a lot of stupid things, especially Schulz.
You know the more I think of this the more pissed I am. So Schulz does his little interview with Brand X, knowing that they are going to publish it. So here's a F-ing idea. Turn it into an outreach/fundraising/call to arms or whatever. Announce it from WSU, not Brand X. Say we hope it to be temporary. Announce that Chun and Schulz are doing the same to their salaries. Mention any other cost cutting and revenue enhancement measures. Make a plea to all Cougs to support Athletics and the NIL in this time of need.
Where is the fundraising effort? Nowhere I've seen. We all know we are in dire straits, but "all is well".
And finally, if all this money is coming in from the Pac-12 catastrophe, is right now the time to cut coaches salaries? Don't we have some shitpot of money to get us by for a while? And how about being transparent with that? I wish some major boosters would get pissed off and start calling BS. nothing I can do personally, I'm just a grain of sand.
Agree....WSU should be doing everything they can to keep their current MBB and WBB coaches and staff. It may be hard to afford, but they can't afford to let them go either.
This is reality for a former P5 team that effectively is losing that status. It sucks, but there is no way Smith is going to get anything approaching $3m, even if he deserves it. MBB isn't a big revenue generator; it can make some money, but it's a distant second to football.
Leon Rice is a decent comp. When he signed an extension last year, he was the winningest coach in school history, had just won 27 games, had Boise State as an 8 seed, had won at least 20 games in 9 of his 12 seasons, and he has had Boise State in the NCAA tournament 4 times in his 12 years. Even after all that, he got a raise from $750k to $900k, escalating by $50k a year thereafter, with some incentives.
Yes, we rightly are excited Smith is getting WSU to the tournament this year, especially knowing all it takes for him to go out and get new talent every single year and then work miracles with those guys, but as of mid-2022, the highest-paid coach in the MWC made $1.4m, and Rice was the 4th-highest paid in the conference despite not even getting to $1.1m until the final year of the deal in 2026/27. I believe Dutcher now makes significantly more, but he had those guys in the national title game and is in San Diego.
Some people are all about becoming a MWC program, whether officially or effectively, but then they don't like aspects of that reality like this. This is reality if we aren't a power-conference program with power-conference media revenues.
WSU will struggle to keep any coach who succeeds in any sport, especially the revenue sports, and it can't pay well above market rates for its new reality in terms of exposure and money coming in the door. It sure as hell can't pay a lot of money for programs that don't generate any money like women's BB.