(01-20-2020 04:17 PM)theboro Wrote: They need to fire his ass this year.
They won’t.
If they fire him at the end of this season, they will owe him 100 percent of his remaining base salary (his base is $575k. He also gets an additional $175k for media obligations).
If they canned him at the end of this season they would owe him $1.725M.
To fire him at the end of next season would be $575k.
He’s going to get one more year. To make sure the program is really dead.[/align]
You guys need to be careful of what we call "Benforded".
In 2013, Tony Benford inherited an extremely talented North Texas roster from Johnny Jones. Jones team was also on a run of 5 20+ win seasons in a row. That extremely talented 2013-14 team ended up with a 16-16 record. The lack of actual in-game coaching was obvious to even the casual basketball fan.
It only got worse from there for the next 4 years, as our AD continued to hang on to him.
2013–14 North Texas 16–16 6–10 11th
2014–15 North Texas 14–17 8–10 T–7th
2015–16 North Texas 12–20 7–11 T–9th
2016–17 North Texas 8–22 2–16 14th
Now, Grant McCasland is having to dig out from the grave created by Benford and we are finally having a small degree of success again. The fans that we had in 2012 are starting to come back. But, there is a ways to go yet.
There is a real danger in hanging on to a coach when a program is slipping. Once it slips, it can take a good while to get it back.