Fired UWGB men's basketball coach Linc Darner guaranteed at least $720,000 in settlement

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Fired UWGB men's basketball coach Linc Darner guaranteed at least $720,000 in settlement

GREEN BAY - Linc Darner was fired as the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men’s basketball coach earlier this month, but he received a nice going away present.

Darner is guaranteed at least $720,000 as part of the settlement agreement he made with the school.

According to the agreement obtained Friday through an open records request, Darner was paid $120,000 on May 21 and will receive $120,000 on the first business day in January.

Darner also will receive monthly payments of $20,000 from May 1, 2021, through April 1, 2023.

If Darner has not landed a head coaching or assistant job before that time — he agreed to make a reasonable and diligent effort to do so — he will receive an additional $20,000 per month beginning May 1, 2023, and going through April 1, 2024.

The school will ensure continued health insurance coverage at current levels for Darner and his family until Dec. 21, 2021, or until Darner or his wife, Kristen, become eligible for coverage under a comparable health insurance plan.

Dang.... What in the heck happened that they want him gone that bad to pay out that much???

 

[GBP4EVER]

Clear he did not get fired for cause. So someone high up in the school had it out for him

 

[FlaPack]

Follow the money. Long term financial flexibility vs short term out of pocket. Next coach will not be paid well.
UWGB chancellor Michael Alexander said. “The question is that over the life of the contract, we saved 30 to 50 percent over the life of the contract.

“I believe that we have to be great financial stewards of our resources, and that’s one of our primary jobs.”
There are other references in the article to money also.


“It depends on how the next contract is structured,” Alexander said. “It depends on a lot of factors on what that looks like. There are different sources of money where those two things can come from. There is private money we can use and there is the way we fund current salaries. It’s not coming from the same place, if that makes sense.”

“We have different funds we can use for various purposes,” he said. “It depends on the funding we use. Is it possible that a donor in the future would give us money that we use to cover part of this? Sure. Is it possible that some of the money we will use has been donated by a donor in the past? Sure.

 

[GBP4EVER]

Follow the money. Long term financial flexibility vs short term out of pocket. Next coach will not be paid well.
UWGB chancellor Michael Alexander said. “The question is that over the life of the contract, we saved 30 to 50 percent over the life of the contract.

“I believe that we have to be great financial stewards of our resources, and that’s one of our primary jobs.”
There are other references in the article to money also.


“It depends on how the next contract is structured,” Alexander said. “It depends on a lot of factors on what that looks like. There are different sources of money where those two things can come from. There is private money we can use and there is the way we fund current salaries. It’s not coming from the same place, if that makes sense.”

“We have different funds we can use for various purposes,” he said. “It depends on the funding we use. Is it possible that a donor in the future would give us money that we use to cover part of this? Sure. Is it possible that some of the money we will use has been donated by a donor in the past? Sure.

So school is being hard hit right now like all programs fire the coach to save some cash and go as cheap as you can with the next staff.

 

[Cheesedog]

They aren't going to find much quality on the cheap.

If they save 30-50 then they can only pay the next guy 50-70 percent of what they paid this guy without having it cost more.

However reading between the lines I'm guessing they have a booster who has already promised to cover it.

 

[FlaPack]

They aren't going to find much quality on the cheap.

If they save 30-50 then they can only pay the next guy 50-70 percent of what they paid this guy without having it cost more.

However reading between the lines I'm guessing they have a booster who has already promised to cover it.

Yeah and maybe that booster was not happy with “the direction of the program “

 

[TW]

Boosters do have a way of influencing decisions made on coaching staff. If you look at the perks associated with so many coaches, like free vehicles, etc, you begin to realize that their salaries are augmented in a lot of ways by people who help support the system, as well as directly in donations to athletic programs to pay the coaches.

A friend, who is a Texas high school coach, gets a new pick-up truck for his personal usage every other year, and a SUV for his wife in the alternate years. They also get airline travel vouchers to the tune of several thousand dollars a year so they can take vacations and travel first class. Then there's the vacations themselves, that will cost him something like $50 for a week's stay in a 5-star resort.

Life is good when you win a lot, and the people surrounding the program have deep pockets. As for his salary? Over $100,000 a year, and all he does is coach football, and is an "Assistant Athletic Director" in name only, so they can add money to the pot.

That's high school football, Texas style. I didn't even mention the recruiting, that includes Daddy getting a great job so they can move into an area, and the kid attend a specific school. They play that one out before the kids even reach high school, so they can't lose any eligibility.

 

[GBP4EVER]

In WI HS coach part time job were many of the coaches also work as teachers as full time job.

 

[Cheesedog]

Boosters do have a way of influencing decisions made on coaching staff. If you look at the perks associated with so many coaches, like free vehicles, etc, you begin to realize that their salaries are augmented in a lot of ways by people who help support the system, as well as directly in donations to athletic programs to pay the coaches.

A friend, who is a Texas high school coach, gets a new pick-up truck for his personal usage every other year, and a SUV for his wife in the alternate years. They also get airline travel vouchers to the tune of several thousand dollars a year so they can take vacations and travel first class. Then there's the vacations themselves, that will cost him something like $50 for a week's stay in a 5-star resort.

Life is good when you win a lot, and the people surrounding the program have deep pockets. As for his salary? Over $100,000 a year, and all he does is coach football, and is an "Assistant Athletic Director" in name only, so they can add money to the pot.

That's high school football, Texas style. I didn't even mention the recruiting, that includes Daddy getting a great job so they can move into an area, and the kid attend a specific school. They play that one out before the kids even reach high school, so they can't lose any eligibility.

That's disgusting.

 

[TW]

Here's one for you. We have two public high schools in Weslaco. Our city is about 45,000 population. Both teams use the same stadium for football. It's an $8 million dollar plant, so why not?

There are about 14,000 seats in the stadium, plus there's several hundred VIP accommodations. The going rate for seats is $35 for a season pass to the cheap seats. The first tier of special seats runs double that figure. Then there's the additional seats that sell out at $140 for a season. They are sold out long before the schedule comes out. Then there's at least another 2,000 road tickets that each school gets to collect on for each road game which are also sold out. That goes at the rate of $35 each also.

In the end, the total take for the ten games, home and away, is nearly $700,000. That does not include the shirts, caps, and all kinds of team stuff sold down here, as well as the advertising at the stadium, which from what I heard brings in over $150,000 a year.

In Texas, high school football is big business. That's why we have a huge $1 million scoreboard, which shows replays just like the NFL. It's the largest high school scoreboard in the nation, unless a bigger one has been built since. Ours is 36' x 66', and rivals those in major pro sports.

Now, that's one team's income. There's a second team, and they share the stadium, so that's split expenses.

Both teams have their own practice fields which would put a lot of Division III college team stadiums to shame, except they only have seating for about 3 or 4,000 people. They play Junior High games there, and they sell out too.

Some of the road games are over 200 miles away, so they are overnight trips. There are as many as 25 buses loaded with fans going to games on the road, and motels/hotels in some fairly large areas are full because of it. Teams want those road visitors because they pump a lot of money into the local economies if it's an over night trip.

It's so much different down here than up north.