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per Amelia:
Despite another blast of embarrassment last week to the Gophers men’s basketball team, coach Richard Pitino likely will be given the opportunity to turn the program around.
The 33-year-old has lost some fans and boosters in this season of historically bad basketball and troubling off-court incidents, but several Star Tribune interviews last week revealed support in some high places in and around the university has not greatly eroded.
Even more foretelling of Pitino’s return is his contract, which calls for $7 million in buyout payments should the university fire him this offseason. Norwood Teague — in one of his last acts as athletic director before resigning due to accusations of sexual harassment by two university employees — signed Pitino to a two-year extension this past summer that both gave the coach a raise and more than doubled the buyout terms, increasing them by a whopping $4 million.
“Seven million is a good chunk of change, no doubt about it,” University of Minnesota Board of Regents chairman Dean Johnson said. “Does it weigh into the equation? I would guess it does.”
http://www.startribune.com/richard-...pite-troubles-on-and-off-the-court/371174971/
Go Gophers!!
Despite another blast of embarrassment last week to the Gophers men’s basketball team, coach Richard Pitino likely will be given the opportunity to turn the program around.
The 33-year-old has lost some fans and boosters in this season of historically bad basketball and troubling off-court incidents, but several Star Tribune interviews last week revealed support in some high places in and around the university has not greatly eroded.
Even more foretelling of Pitino’s return is his contract, which calls for $7 million in buyout payments should the university fire him this offseason. Norwood Teague — in one of his last acts as athletic director before resigning due to accusations of sexual harassment by two university employees — signed Pitino to a two-year extension this past summer that both gave the coach a raise and more than doubled the buyout terms, increasing them by a whopping $4 million.
“Seven million is a good chunk of change, no doubt about it,” University of Minnesota Board of Regents chairman Dean Johnson said. “Does it weigh into the equation? I would guess it does.”
http://www.startribune.com/richard-...pite-troubles-on-and-off-the-court/371174971/
Go Gophers!!
