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Haith left MU to reset his coaching clock. Time almost up
Posted on: March 2, 2021 at 10:40:40 CT
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His contract expires at the end of the 2021-22 season. It is believed that his salary is in the neighborhood of at least $1.3 million, which nearly doubles the money Wojcik was paid at TU.
With only the one season remaining, Haith’s buyout dollar figure would be as manageable as it’s ever going to be.
However, for the sake of recruiting, TU can’t let a head coach get all the way to the finish line of a contract. And really, if TU does believe that Haith is the right man for the job, an extension should be for no less than two seasons.
Haith is nearing the end of his seventh Tulsa season. His winning percentage is .594. His only NCAA Tournament appearance happened in 2016, as the Hurricane scored a spot in a play-in game. TU fell 67-62 to Michigan.
During the 2019-20 season, TU’s home attendance average was the lowest in the 23-season history of the Reynolds Center. It was worse than in 2011-12, when Wojcik was fired in part because of poor attendance. There were games last season when actual attendance in the 8,355-seat arena could not have been more than 1,000.
Now, I don’t hear any rumblings or see any indicators about Haith’s job status, and I rarely sense much angry community reaction to TU’s agonizingly lengthy NCAA Tournament slump: no March Madness victory since 2003.
Apathy. That in itself is a huge problem. For a small, money-starved athletic department like TU’s — one with a small base of local alumni — community apathy is the worst of all situations.
His contract expires at the end of the 2021-22 season. It is believed that his salary is in the neighborhood of at least $1.3 million, which nearly doubles the money Wojcik was paid at TU.
With only the one season remaining, Haith’s buyout dollar figure would be as manageable as it’s ever going to be.
However, for the sake of recruiting, TU can’t let a head coach get all the way to the finish line of a contract. And really, if TU does believe that Haith is the right man for the job, an extension should be for no less than two seasons.
Haith is nearing the end of his seventh Tulsa season. His winning percentage is .594. His only NCAA Tournament appearance happened in 2016, as the Hurricane scored a spot in a play-in game. TU fell 67-62 to Michigan.
During the 2019-20 season, TU’s home attendance average was the lowest in the 23-season history of the Reynolds Center. It was worse than in 2011-12, when Wojcik was fired in part because of poor attendance. There were games last season when actual attendance in the 8,355-seat arena could not have been more than 1,000.
Now, I don’t hear any rumblings or see any indicators about Haith’s job status, and I rarely sense much angry community reaction to TU’s agonizingly lengthy NCAA Tournament slump: no March Madness victory since 2003.
Apathy. That in itself is a huge problem. For a small, money-starved athletic department like TU’s — one with a small base of local alumni — community apathy is the worst of all situations.
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Haith left MU to reset his coaching clock. Time almost up - FIJItiger MU - 3/2 10:40:40