fredbear said:
Eball. That is not true. No one is saying that, at least, no one in the know. You have no idea what NC present salary is, nor does the wbb community. BU does not reveal. And if you believe our AD, he said wbb investment was still there by the university. Heck, they are about to get a 500,000,000 (all development totaled) palace on the river, new men and women's facilities that will be among the best in the country. The Aggie facilities do not compare, not even built to be a bball arena. Graduation room like the FC. BU could have easily have paid GA coach top dollar and still saved half of Kim's salary. I bet aggies don't even pay 1.5 million. It will be published. Will you take that bet? And I think it is wrong to assume Nicki was a bargain basement hire. Of course she was paid less than Kim, anyone but Geno or Dawn would. BU WBB is in great shape and the investment in BBall has NEVER been higher. I know you are a lawyer and am surprised by you odd reasoning.
Fred...I like you a lot your loyalty to BU, WBB is unquestioned. If you look at my post I bolded all the speculation, rumors and perception areas...No one knows for sure but...speculation was out in the WBB community on line and through various sports information outlets that BU kicked the tires for the Michigan coach the Arizona Coach the UCLA coach and Taylor...the thought process was any of those would have come to BU for Kim money!
Mac was trying to be a good AD and knew he would never find someone deserving of Kim money to come in and replace her...I mean Tara, Geno and Staley were not coming...so speculation is he would just not give anyone big enough raises to leave their schools..none of those were making 2 million a year plus. So he went with a rather unique hire who was not making near what those college coaches were. Again speculation and rumor but we will be able to tell from BU tax returns roughly what CNC is making but again based on her record and experience you would have to believe we are paying considerably less than we were to Kim and less than we would have had to pay to lure one of the bigger names away.
This is not a reality post it is a conjecture post it is not what we at BU think it is what the WBB community thinks when they see what happened....
Unfortunately, we have a ton of premium posters who never liked or supported WBB or Kim and were critical of her sucking up resources they thought should go to MBB or Football...You still have posters who can't stand Title IX and believe it is bad law...(whether it is or not is really moot it is the law)
So much of the faux support for CNC and bashing of Kim was a concerted effort by those who had hated Kim and WBB for a long time, making sure Mac had cover for letting a HOF coach walk and hiring someone who got paid a lot less...they support that but realized the only way to sell it to true WBB fans at BU is bashing Kim and artificially pumping up CNC because it saved money for athletics that in their mind count Football and MBB