Beardown said:
jjjj said:
looks like John Wristen from CSU-P makes about $67k and Collins' base salary is $95k as shown in the contract someone posted earlier. The incentives in Collins' contract would enable him to make $150k pretty easily. It sure seems that if Wristen was targeted, he would be interested in making double his present salary or maybe more if the University ever got serious about winning.
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I listened to the post-game interview with Collins and he sounded like he's already given up on the season, talking about how he will make adjustments in the off-season. He said he feels like this team is "a joke" and the reason they lose is "they aren't making plays," meaning the players. I'm sure his pre and post-game speeches to the team are truly inspirational.
One of the players was pounding his helmet into the concrete out of frustration at the end of the game and the body language of most players was pure frustration. This just shows that the team has no leadership and no hope. People are more productive under good leadership whether it's in the military, sports or any other job and frustrated people are definitely less productive. The players know they worked their asses off all off-season only to be embarrassed week in and week out, year in and year out because there is no leadership. The team is so pathetic the opposing fans are coming on here and trying to make us feel better; hilarious. While I appreciate the sentiments, it shows what a pathetic mess we are in. This team would be at the bottom of the RMAC
We have him for another season. He's still under contract. We don't have the money to buy his contract out.
They could terminate him for cause under Paragraph 7(e) for "Collins' unwillingness to perform the duties of head football coach as specified in writing by the Director of Athletics." This contract incorporates by reference into the contract almost any written document the AD gives him, so it is a very mushy contract. If the AD directed him to refrain from making statements detrimental to the team, his comments calling the team a joke and essentially giving up on the season could be "unwillingness to perform his contract." Collins has a First Amendment right to freedom of speech, but as the Supreme Court ruled, he does not have a First Amendment right to be employed by the government. Pickering v Board of Education held that if government employees make statements that are "of the sort to cause a substantial interference with the ability of the employee to continue to do his job," they could be fired. I would say that there is a good argument that calling the team a joke and giving up on the season would interfere with his ability to continue to do his job.
If they fired him, he would have to sue in District Court which would probably cost about $30k in attorneys' fees and other costs. Given that, and the uncertainty of his case, many lawyers would tell him to settle for $30k. UNC has its own lawyers so defending Collins' lawsuit would require them to stop playing video solitaire for a while, but it would cost UNC nothing in attorneys' fees. In the end, UNC is only out-of-pocket $30k which could easily be made up in ticket sales if a new coach came in and started winning.
