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Hamilton Gets a 2-Year Extension

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:31 pm
by EKU05

Re: Hamilton Gets a 2-Year Extension

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:40 pm
by g--
Only two years? If I had anything to say about it I would have given AW a 20 year extension. I’ve never seen this kind of player excitement, coaching enthusiasm, and total immersion into the EKU community by a coach, not to mention his recruiting genius.

The article states "this extension will keep the 2020 Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year in Richmond through at least the 2023-24 season", but I would rather he be locked into EKU through at least the 2040 season. – at a minimum.

Re: Hamilton Gets a 2-Year Extension

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 10:07 am
by dljordaneku
2 years or 20 years doesn't matter. If he wants to leave, he's going to leave.

dj

Re: Hamilton Gets a 2-Year Extension

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 10:23 am
by g--
dljordaneku wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2020 10:07 am 2 years or 20 years doesn't matter. If he wants to leave, he's going to leave.

dj

Yep – that’s true – I just wanted to express my thankfulness for what AW has done.

Re: Hamilton Gets a 2-Year Extension

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:37 pm
by dljordaneku
g-- wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2020 10:23 am
dljordaneku wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2020 10:07 am 2 years or 20 years doesn't matter. If he wants to leave, he's going to leave.

dj

Yep – that’s true – I just wanted to express my thankfulness for what AW has done.
Yeah. I know. The real world problems of being a mid major. :)

dj

Re: Hamilton Gets a 2-Year Extension

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:24 pm
by smidge34
There’s like a 4 year max for contracts for state employees iirc.

Re: Hamilton Gets a 2-Year Extension

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 10:16 pm
by EKU05
smidge34 wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:24 pm There’s like a 4 year max for contracts for state employees iirc.
Chris Mack has a seven-year deal at Louisville, and Cal has a lifetime deal. Mack's deal automatically adds a year if and when Louisville gets a post-season ban for the Adidas scandal.

I'm thinking Scott Satterfield's initial deal was for five years, but I'm not 100% certain on that one.

Re: Hamilton Gets a 2-Year Extension

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 11:34 am
by Colonel Grad
EKU05 wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2020 10:16 pm
smidge34 wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:24 pm There’s like a 4 year max for contracts for state employees iirc.
Chris Mack has a seven-year deal at Louisville, and Cal has a lifetime deal. Mack's deal automatically adds a year if and when Louisville gets a post-season ban for the Adidas scandal.

I'm thinking Scott Satterfield's initial deal was for five years, but I'm not 100% certain on that one.
None of them work for the state. They all work for Athletic Associations. That's how the power 5 schools get around state regulated hiring practices.

Re: Hamilton Gets a 2-Year Extension

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:29 pm
by g--
So, how would that work? The University pays the Athletic Associations who then pass the money to the coaches?

Re: Hamilton Gets a 2-Year Extension

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 2:11 pm
by EKU05
Colonel Grad wrote: Sun Apr 12, 2020 11:34 am
EKU05 wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2020 10:16 pm
smidge34 wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:24 pm There’s like a 4 year max for contracts for state employees iirc.
Chris Mack has a seven-year deal at Louisville, and Cal has a lifetime deal. Mack's deal automatically adds a year if and when Louisville gets a post-season ban for the Adidas scandal.

I'm thinking Scott Satterfield's initial deal was for five years, but I'm not 100% certain on that one.
None of them work for the state. They all work for Athletic Associations. That's how the power 5 schools get around state regulated hiring practices.
That's a pretty common misunderstanding of the situation:

1. UK's AA disbanded in 2012. It no longer exists.
2. U of L's does still exist currently, but they've toyed with the same idea.
3. Both Mack and Cal (and Satterfield for that matter) can be looked up on the directory of state employees (I just did it).

So it doesn't actually work quite like that at present, but even if it did there would be nothing at all stopping us from creating some nominal board to chair an Athletic Association and awarding whatever contract we wanted to as well.