Nerrrrrd, go do engineering or something cool. Who wants to be a lawyer anymore?
Illini Basketball 2024-2025
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Memphis
Saw something about this on Reddit and came here expecting to learn more, but not seeing anything but this link (unless I'm missing something?)
Any insiders able to comment? Really hope we can keep him on staff. This feels like it would be a huge loss.
There has already been a discussion here. Starts around page 4 post 80 and goes on for a while.
Thanks for the heads up!
Too bad about TA but as Brad always says, if teams are coming for our assistants, we must be doing something right.
Joel Goodson
- dawgville
TA: no inside knowledge, but this is mainly about best (e.g. fastest) path to the pot of gold (head coaching gig). with OA in the fold, Tim's second banana. he's looking for a top dawg post to be used as a springboard to a good head coach job in a few years.
It really just comes down to TA is upset he hasn't gotten an extension/raise. Him and Geoff are in the final years of their contracts.
so why hasn't he then? i mean, to maintain a top tier staff ya gotta be willing to $$.
I'm totally ignorant of how things go but is it odd that we haven't offered him (or them) an extension/raise?
IlliniwekKDR
- Colorado Springs, CO
Can't we just, ya know, do that for him? If we want him (and I'm sure we do, unless there's something I haven't heard), the money has to be there, right?
JFGsCoffeeMug
BU:1 Trash cans:0
- Chicago
Especially following a season when we made the Elite 8, and the second weekend for the first time in almost 20 years.
So this can be rectified?
Unless he has some surefire awesome opportunity lined up this late in the game it seems like a weird hill to die on.
From what I see he was making 425k a few years ago which seems pretty in like with high major program assistants. The UConn assistants all just got new deals with like 400k base salaries(the top assistants do have some incentives which raises that pretty significantly but they've won back to back titles).
I get wanting to have security of multi year contract and who doesn't want a raise but unless there is something going on behind the scenes I would imagine he would have definitely gotten an extension after this year.
1/3- Money is sort of on lockdown for this stuff until the revenue sharing aspect gets sorted out.
2- This isn't something that's a new development(to you guys it is)
Getting paid several hundred thousand dollars a year to be a coach @ Illinois? That sounds pretty good to me! I don't don't understand why anyone would want anything more? Where is the undying loyalty?
/s (sorta - lol)
Epsilon
M tipping over
- Pdx
When is the revenue sharing thing supposed to be sorted out? I didn’t get the sense any time soon…
Probably poor wording by me, not necessarily when it all gets sorted out but more when Illinois has a better idea of what it's actually going to look like and where money needs to go.
To me it's a bit of a no brainer to pay Anderson, IMO, he is worth a raise and extension. I doubt we are able to land another big dog if we don't pay them, so why not just keep the guy happy that's already been an asset to our program?
This seems more overly complicated than it needs to, am I missing something?
This seems more overly complicated than it needs to, am I missing something?
Well, considering Antigua is making $900K/year (is that correct?), I can see him being a little upset.
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