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Post by alum on May 21, 2021 13:46:18 GMT -5
Per the Courant. The performance bonuses are the most amusing part to me. A season would be a colossal failure for him not to get an extra $200,000 per year. www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-prem-sp-uconn-women-geno-inside-the-contract-20210521-20210521-oifuxik4onawlawfgn2acbfxwy-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Don%27t%20Miss&utm_content=5581621612335#nws=trueLength of contractThe new deal, which is retroactive for 2020-21, was signed on April 13, 2021 and runs from April 15, 2020 to April 14, 2025. Auriemma and the university have the option to extend the contract by up to two additional one-year periods. Compensation
Base salary: $600,000 for five seasons, starting in 2020-21. Speaking, consulting, media fees: Starting at $2.2 million this season and increasing by $100,000 each year to finish with $2.6 million in 2024-25. T otal over the five years: $15 million: $2.8 million in 2020-21, $2.9 million in 2021-22, $3.0 million in 2022-23, $3.1 million in 2023-24 and $3.2 million in 2024-25.
Performance bonuses: Auriemma receives a half-month’s salary for winning the Big East regular season, a half-month’s salary for winning the Big East Tournament, one month’s salary for participating in the NCAA Tournament, one month’s salary for participating in the Sweet 16, one month’s salary for participating in the Elite Eight, one month’s salary for participating in the Final Four and two months’ salary for winning the national title. Auriemma can also get a half-month’s salary if he is named national coach of the year by the Associated Press, USBWA, WBCA or Naismith Trophy, and one quarter of a month’s salary for conference coach of the year. If he wins both conference and national coach of the year, he earns a half-month’s salary. Historical context: Auriemma’s previous contract (2016-2021) was valued at $13 million. That contract replaced a deal that was set to run from 2013-18 and was worth $10.8 million. Previous deals (typically five-year contracts) Auriemma signed were valued at $8 million (renegotiated in 2008), $4.9 million (2005) and just under $3 million (2000). Perks
Tickets: Per contract terms, Auriemma receives 30 tickets and purchase privileges for 20 additional tickets for home, away, conference tournament and postseason women’s basketball games, eight tickets to men’s basketball home games, four chairback seats for football home games and two tickets for all other UConn home games. Also included are 24 tickets in a suite and six parking passes for all home football games. Auriemma is required to maintain a log of those whom he gives the tickets. Other: Family membership to the Hartford Golf Club and a $15,000 car allowance. Leaving UConn?
If he retires or resigns in good standing: Auriemma would receive $1.5 million from the university or could take a job in the athletics department with a $500,000 salary for a maximum of five years. If he’s fired without just cause: Auriemma would be entitled to receive a buyout that starts at $5 million in 2020-21 and decreases by $500,000 each year afterwards. If he leaves for another coaching job: Auriemma would have to pay an exit fee that starts at $5 million in 2020-21 and decreases by $500,000 each year afterwards. |
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Post by bigfan on May 21, 2021 13:49:09 GMT -5
I'm sure our contracts are similar.
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Post by longsuffering on May 21, 2021 13:58:44 GMT -5
Our coaches get two Coney Island Hot Dogs per month if they reach the sweet sixteen.
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Post by rgs318 on May 22, 2021 5:34:53 GMT -5
...for an entire year? That seems a bit over the top.   |
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Post by newfieguy74 on May 22, 2021 6:35:23 GMT -5
As I resident of CT I wonder if UConn's women's basketball program is a plus or a negative financially. They certainly attract a lot of national acclaim.
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Post by Crucis#1 on May 22, 2021 8:18:24 GMT -5
The UConn campus has been transformed from a hodgepodge of buildings to a thoughtful master planned community. The basketball teams have certainly have brought attention to the University and has made UConn a viable destination for a number of students that previously would not have given them a second thought.
I drove through the campus recently. It is remarkably different and better kept than 30 or 40 years ago. The athletic village collection of new and remodeled existing building has been well executed. The new softball, and baseball stadiums, along with the remodeled soccer stadium, the football training center as well as the new hockey rink to be constructed certainly leaves a solid impression as to their commitment to D1 athletics.
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Post by longsuffering on May 22, 2021 9:36:33 GMT -5
A few years ago I was reading about the push to get funding over the top for a new technology building at UConn. It was in the same general time period when reports about the push to get funding over the top for one or more of the Holy Cross new buildings was fresh in my mind.
I noted that the UConn push was to get State bonding approved and the HC push was to reach a certain threshold of private donations. Both pushes were ultimately successful. It was a reminder of what a good job the Development folks at HC do and how the college must compete in a way against the resources of whole States which in turn receive billions in revenue from the Federal Government.
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Post by princetoncrusader on May 22, 2021 9:39:04 GMT -5
Is he the highest paid coach in the women's game?
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Post by longsuffering on May 22, 2021 9:46:43 GMT -5
Is he the highest paid coach in the women's game? Kim Mulkey of LSU is in the same ball park. |
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Post by newfieguy74 on May 22, 2021 10:09:04 GMT -5
UConn is a big deal in CT, especially its sports. I'd guess it is a bigger deal than any of the other New England state universities are to their state. It's certainly a bigger deal than UMass is in MA. I've always thought that UMass doesn't get enough love at home.
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Post by sader1970 on May 22, 2021 15:34:10 GMT -5
I thought the big drawer was actually the UConn Dairy Bar which was voted as having the Best Ice Cream in the state. It is worth the trip if you are anywhere within a 50 miles radius.  |
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Post by lowerkimball on May 25, 2021 9:58:31 GMT -5
Mulkey's contract for those interested: www.kwtx.com/2021/04/28/salary-for-lsu-womens-basketball-coach-kim-mulkey-revealed/#:~:text=Mulkey's%20contract%20with%20LSU%20runs,%242.27%20a%20year%20at%20Baylor. Uconn WBB on paper is a money loser for the athletic department; however, as Crucis pointed out, the true value of what the program generates (along with MBB) for the university due to their success and national exposure they achieve on an annual basis is much more complicated to measure. For what it's worth UConn is one of the worst run athletic departments from a financial point of view, operating at a huge loss on an annual basis. If I had to ball park MM's average contract value I'd guess it's in the $165-$175K range - only $2.6m shy of Geno! |
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 27, 2021 15:26:51 GMT -5
UConn is one of about five women's basketball programs that can legitimately afford to pay their coach top dollar:
1. The Huskies average nearly 10,000 per game in attendance, much of it in season tickets that run $208 per ticket. Single game tickets run between $15-50 per seat.
2. UConn recently entered a new separate agreement with SNY TV just for women's coverage. In 2012, the deal was worth $1.1 million a season.
3. While women's basketball pays less in NCAA tournament credits than the men's tournamnet does ($337,141 per game), UConn never wins fewer than four tournament games every year.
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Post by longsuffering on May 27, 2021 16:35:32 GMT -5
UConn is one of about five women's basketball programs that can legitimately afford to pay their coach top dollar: 1. The Huskies average nearly 10,000 per game in attendance, much of it in season tickets that run $208 per ticket. Single game tickets run between $15-50 per seat. 2. UConn recently entered a new separate agreement with SNY TV just for women's coverage. In 2012, the deal was worth $1.1 million a season. 3. While women's basketball pays less in NCAA tournament credits than the men's tournamnet does ($337,141 per game), UConn never wins fewer than four tournament games every year. $208 is an entertainment bargain for a full season of the highest level WBB in the country. It would be equivalent to fifteen or so tickets to "Hamilton" or whatever the best play in the country is in relative quality if not exact dollar value. I wonder if UConn also gets paid to quintuple attendance on the road for OOC games or tournaments? |
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Post by purplehaze on May 27, 2021 18:37:46 GMT -5
No, they absolutely dion’t
And the problem with season tickets is that BE games are blowouts and the benefit is tickets to those great OOC games
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Post by bison137 on May 27, 2021 21:29:44 GMT -5
UConn is one of about five women's basketball programs that can legitimately afford to pay their coach top dollar: 1. The Huskies average nearly 10,000 per game in attendance, much of it in season tickets that run $208 per ticket. Single game tickets run between $15-50 per seat. 2. UConn recently entered a new separate agreement with SNY TV just for women's coverage. In 2012, the deal was worth $1.1 million a season. 3. While women's basketball pays less in NCAA tournament credits than the men's tournamnet does ($337,141 per game), UConn never wins fewer than four tournament games every year. The cheapest UConn season ticket for the women’s team is $70. |
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Post by HC92 on May 27, 2021 22:41:49 GMT -5
UConn is one of about five women's basketball programs that can legitimately afford to pay their coach top dollar: 1. The Huskies average nearly 10,000 per game in attendance, much of it in season tickets that run $208 per ticket. Single game tickets run between $15-50 per seat. 2. UConn recently entered a new separate agreement with SNY TV just for women's coverage. In 2012, the deal was worth $1.1 million a season. 3. While women's basketball pays less in NCAA tournament credits than the men's tournamnet does ($337,141 per game), UConn never wins fewer than four tournament games every year. The cheapest UConn season ticket for the women’s team is $70. I think that’s just for the Hartford games. Gampel is another $80. |
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Post by DiMarz on May 29, 2021 21:09:16 GMT -5
I believe UConn gets moneys from the NCAA for each level of the men's and women's tournament...Perhaps somebody has the numbers..
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Post by nycrusader2010 on May 31, 2021 7:47:56 GMT -5
UConn is a big deal in CT, especially its sports. I'd guess it is a bigger deal than any of the other New England state universities are to their state. It's certainly a bigger deal than UMass is in MA. I've always thought that UMass doesn't get enough love at home. It mostly stems from location. Unless you actually went there, very few Mass residents have any attachment to the school all the way out in Amherst. Probably 98.5% of the state population lives east of the university -- not exactly a central geographic location. Many HC alum I'm friends with from Connecticut at least somewhat casually support UCONN sports. The other issue is that Boston College (along with Holy Cross for a long time) has been the one playing major college football since the beginning. So casual college sports fans in Boston area have always gravitated towards BC. At the time of the "last" BC-Holy Cross football game in1986, UMASS was not even a decade from removed from moving up from Division II. |
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Post by longsuffering on May 31, 2021 10:14:55 GMT -5
UMass captured the State's imagination when a fresh faced Coach Cal who had no baggage at the time led them to the top of the National rankings. It ranked up there with the 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox, the Doug Flutie Phenomenon, the 2004 Reverse the Curse Red Sox, etc. It takes national prominence to move a State spoiled by Brady and Belichick I guess. And I don't think College hockey captures the MA citizenry like D-1 BB, FBS football or the big four pro sports unfortunately.
Thus an FCS run to the national title by HC would be fabulous but perhaps closer to a hockey national championship for UMass or Providence or the UMass FCS championship than say the Calipari/Camby BB run or the Cowboy Jack Bicknell/Doug Flutie run in 1-A FB at the time. Maybe HC being a small liberal arts college would create a David vs Goliath fascination by the public, but maybe being FCS it would be more David vs David.
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Post by sader1970 on May 31, 2021 12:29:43 GMT -5
And Storrs is more centrally located? The key might be that UConn women/men play many (most?) games in Hartford (East Hartford for football). If they played all their games in Storrs, they might well be more like UMass fan-wise. My own theory is that winning attracts fans (also "winning begets winning" ). Calhoun and Geno won and likely brought pride to Nutmegers.(did I spell that right?) in their state university. |
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Post by longsuffering on May 31, 2021 15:40:40 GMT -5
I think you could add a second g to Nutmeggers, although my spell check flags both spellings. Another factor is the Constitution State doesn't have a big four major league team in state. The fact that Boston has all four and metro NY has even more might be a drag on fan interest in nearby college teams.
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Post by newfieguy74 on May 31, 2021 16:00:08 GMT -5
Some people in CT follow Boston professional sports teams, some follow NY, but there's much less zeal than Bostonians or New Yorkers show toward their own teams. That leaves UConn, especially basketball. The TV sports segments are basically about UConn sports, the Hartford Yard Goats, and high school sports.
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Post by longsuffering on May 31, 2021 16:33:58 GMT -5
The Ocean State roots for Boston pro teams, but the Providence Media outlets have more time for sports coverage of PC and URI than the Boston media has for BC and the other local colleges.
Holy Cross gets much more coverage in the Worcester media market, such as it is with no network TV station, than BC, BU, NU, Harvard, UMass, etc. obviously, but if HC athletics are occasionally newsworthy they get covered by the Boston Media somewhat similarly to the Boston Colleges, although there's no hard stats to judge that one by.
Back in the day the T&G would send a sportswriter to cover UMass football games. When the placement of that story in the Sunday Telegram was close to or equal to the prominence of the Holy Cross Football game story, it used to annoy me. I am sure the SID at UMass rightfully tried to interest all the Ma. Media in covering the Minutemen, but I thought they should always be second fiddle to HC in the Worcester daily newspaper.🙂
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on May 31, 2021 19:01:26 GMT -5
Worc is unique in that is it's own radio market, yet it's in the Boston TV DMA. If Worc was its own TV market, as Hartford/New Haven and Prov are, HC would get significant coverage as do Conn and Prov in their respective TV DMA's.
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