All of our coaches' contracts will have buyout clauses. |
And we have not taken it to the Board of Regents. Once it is approved with the Board of Regents, it will become public. |
Coach Fisher taught me how to drive. He was also my brother's basketball coach. |
He has made it clear he wants to stay at Nevada. We have made it clear we want him to stay at Nevada. |
I need to talk to (Ault) first. It's not fair for him to read in the paper what I am planning to do. |
I think this is a really simple, straight-forward contract that both Coach and I are happy with. |
Instead of just penalizing schools, you should reward the ones that exceed expectations. |
It is important that we are all on the same page and the same time frame. I am a lot more comfortable talking to coaches about staying and making commitments when I know that I am going to be working with them. It provides security for the whole department. |
It is really nice to see that we won't have any penalties. All of our coaches understand the importance of this. It is part of their job description now to meet these academic progress numbers. |
Our priority is to provide whatever support we can to his family, our student-athletes and coaching staff. |
Recruiting is absolutely critical to our success. We need to be able to recruit quality student athletes. |
That was separate before and I believe it to be part of the job. |
This is a credit to the job that our management team, coaches and staff have done. I am not one to ask people what they think of the job we are doing, but the regents were very nice and generous in their comments today. |
We have talked about what he wanted and the future of Wolf Pack football. If we can come to some agreements (today), and I have all the confidence in the world that we will, we will talk about what's going to happen with the remainder of his contract and the years to come. |
We just signed a basketball player (Tyrone Hansen) from Maine, so you know Mark (Fox, the men's basketball coach) had to fly all the way back there just for one player. That's going to cost some money. |