Altman in, expectations out?
Posted on 26. Apr, 2010 at 5:23 pm by El Rey in Oregon Ducks Basketball, PAC-10 Basketball
It is now official.
Let the Dana Altman era begin.
Or something like that…
What are the expectations now attached to this hire? Honestly, I have zero clue, none. He seems like a okay coach, boring but stable. Though maybe at this point boring and stable is just what the University of Oregon needs. It’s safe to say the Ducks didn’t exactly “win the press conference” with this hire, and his initial meeting with the media was nothing more vanilla than Kyle Korver.
Safe is okay in general, but is safe fine with these numbers attached to it?
- Seven year contract.
- Base salary of $450,000, talent fee at $1,350,000, adding up to a $1.8 million salary.
- Performance incentives reaching $400,000 with an NCAA Tournament championship.
- Academic incentives, based on graduation rates and academic progress rates, up to $120,000.
- Ticket sales incentives (15 percent above gross revenue of $4 million.
Does this hire make you anymore likely to buy season tickets at the house that sneakers built?
Yeah didn’t think so. But it’s also not making you pull your coin out of the DAF.
I want to crush this hire, and crush the deluded ways of the Kilkenny and Knight. And I want to do it in the biggest way, but for some reason I can’t. That doesn’t mean I’m sold on the hire, because I’m not, but I’m also not sure this is the unmitigated disaster I thought the eventual hire would surely be.
It was appropriate to have the press conference in the empty and unfinished bowels of Matthew Knight Arena.
Much like the on-going construction on the arena, this hire leaves me empty and still wondering what the final product will look like.
3 Responses to “Altman in, expectations out?”
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3d
26. Apr, 2010
I think this was the nice way to say they bombed on the overall process.
Goodplaye
26. Apr, 2010
grading this is like grading the NFL draft. We should do it after they play. Its that simple. If they win then its a great hire. We gotta give Altman a couple years at least where thats not the case with the NFL. They get just a few games before they should be getting judged. I can’t stand all the sports radio grading the draft all day today.
tom
26. Apr, 2010
Anything is better than ernie i suck ass kent