Apparently, she told him Miami’s price range was $1 million. I’m not even sure Dalonte Hill would have taken the job for that price.

Miami basketball = joke. The ACC should kick them out and invite in someone more competitive, like, say, East Carolina.

is through intermediaries.

The threats to take Martin will be from the real ACC programs and the Big East.

Of course, he will have to continue to succeed at a high level for that to happen … so it’s a relatively good problem to have.

And there is still plenty of room to bump him up when we need to, now that Miami never made a serious play for him.

Hear me out…

For four years, all we’ve heard about is “Miami, Miami, Miami,” and the general consensus was that if that job ever came open, it would be the “one job” Frank would seriously contemplate leaving for (excluding ‘duh’ locations like UCLA, UConn, Duke, Kentucky, etc.). Regardless of whether or not he was going to actually take it, it was the crossroads where he’d most likely sign a new contract with Kansas State, or he’d move on, and we’d be starting back at square one.

Now, after everything we’ve learned, Miami apparently showed very limited interest in Frank. We can theorize and postulate why that’s the case, but the bottom line is that the interest was low enough that his agent couldn’t use it as leverage to get Currie to bite on an extension. Here we are, nearly a month after the coaching carousel started turning and a week after the season has officially ended, and there isn’t one blip in the KSUniverse regarding our interest in sitting down with Frank and re-extending him. Which, one year after he signed an extension, is not a bad move on Currie’s part. I believe there’s a clause in his contract that we will sit down with him at the end of next year and discuss extension again, but what was supposed to be a windfall for Frank, financially, hasn’t materialized into anything. The golden opportunity came up, and pbbbbbblllbbbbphf.

Why does this concern me? Well, two reasons. One, when you have people getting extended left and right all over the place, and when Frank has proven that he’s got a Top 4 program in the Big 12 conference and is an NCAA Tournament contender every year. In my estimation, that means he should be paid in the Top 4 of conference coaches, which would mean he needs to make about 300-400K more a year. So, because of that, I’m hoping there are no feelings of disrespect or tension with our administration. Just because we don’t have to pay him more doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pay him more.

The second is that a renegotiated contract means that the buyout would most likely be increased. It current sits at $1 million. Next year, $500,000. Low buyouts mean your potential of being poached by lateral moves is heightened. If he feels disrespected, and he’s in a position to be poached, it may increase his inclination to jump.

I guess my thought is that when you’re dealing with talent, my thought is to be more proactive than reactive. I don’t want to get into a position where a lateral move is introduced into the picture, and due to strained relationships and hurt feelings, we’re in a bidding war that would/will cost us more than if we were to just give him a moderate increase.

As the coaching carousel winds down, and you see who some of these people are hiring, pickin’s are slim. NC State hired Mark Gottfried for Christ’s sake. OU paid $2.2 million for Lon Kruger. I don’t want to get into a situation where our only option is to hire Bruce Pearl with a show clause (without would be perfectly acceptable/awesome, but he’s going to be toxic for a while) or promote someone on staff.