pretty sad situation no one has posted. How the heck can you extended this guy tho?
Bill Haisten: For TU’s Frank Haith, a tough season and contract uncertainty
Eleven months ago, the Tulsa World reported that Frank Haith and the University of Tulsa were on the brink of a contract extension for the Golden Hurricane basketball coach.
It seemed that a reworked deal might be finalized by mid-summer.
Summer came and went.
So did the fall, and so did December and January.
Haith now is beyond the midway mark of the 2018-19 season – his fifth at TU – and he acknowledges that the extension still has not been processed.
When hired in 2014, Haith was given a six-year contract. It was believed that his starting pay amounted to $1.3 million a year. Sources indicate that his current salary is $1.6 million – a total that more than doubles what any previous Hurricane basketball coach received.
Haith’s contract is scheduled to expire in July 2020.
“I feel confident that something will work out,” he said last week. He also indicated that he has no idea when it might happen.
TU’s money and attendance issues are well known. In August, athletic director Derrick Gragg told the Tulsa World that he, Haith and football coach Philip Montgomery accepted pay cuts to help the athletic department. Those cuts apply for the entirety of the 2018-19 fiscal year.
It is believed that Haith’s give-back was $300,000 – the amount of a retention bonus that he was to have gotten this year.
At a time when big money apparently isn’t generated in fund-raising, and when the university as a whole faces myriad challenges, Gragg and TU leadership figures might be hesitant to extend big-dollar contracts.
Then again, TU’s leadership figures were the ones who positioned Haith and football coach Philip Montgomery at unprecedented pay levels.
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Bill Haisten: For TU’s Frank Haith, a tough season and contract uncertainty
Eleven months ago, the Tulsa World reported that Frank Haith and the University of Tulsa were on the brink of a contract extension for the Golden Hurricane basketball coach.
It seemed that a reworked deal might be finalized by mid-summer.
Summer came and went.
So did the fall, and so did December and January.
Haith now is beyond the midway mark of the 2018-19 season – his fifth at TU – and he acknowledges that the extension still has not been processed.
When hired in 2014, Haith was given a six-year contract. It was believed that his starting pay amounted to $1.3 million a year. Sources indicate that his current salary is $1.6 million – a total that more than doubles what any previous Hurricane basketball coach received.
Haith’s contract is scheduled to expire in July 2020.
“I feel confident that something will work out,” he said last week. He also indicated that he has no idea when it might happen.
TU’s money and attendance issues are well known. In August, athletic director Derrick Gragg told the Tulsa World that he, Haith and football coach Philip Montgomery accepted pay cuts to help the athletic department. Those cuts apply for the entirety of the 2018-19 fiscal year.
It is believed that Haith’s give-back was $300,000 – the amount of a retention bonus that he was to have gotten this year.
At a time when big money apparently isn’t generated in fund-raising, and when the university as a whole faces myriad challenges, Gragg and TU leadership figures might be hesitant to extend big-dollar contracts.
Then again, TU’s leadership figures were the ones who positioned Haith and football coach Philip Montgomery at unprecedented pay levels.
Link to full article
