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The Oregon angle makes this so interesting.... |
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Written by EC Rules
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 12:51 |
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I really wonder how they are going to push this. I've heard a couple of different angles. One really interesting take that I just heard from a very prominent donor that I trust is that there are actually two buyouts. One between Oregon and Moos and one between Kilkenney directly and Moos. The first was a traditional non-compete to keep Moos from haunting Oregon. The second was to just get him to step away quietly so Kilkenney could jump into that job without a partisan donor war between the two. Who knows if that's true but it makes things kinda interesting and more likely that he'd be willing to walk away from the remaining 1.4M as long as there isn't some sort of legal impingement that would expose him to greater damages if he broke the non-compete.
All I know is that after Oregon tried to stick it to him with the UNLV job, I really hope he comes on board quickly. He's going to be one motivated Athletic Director.
Here is one angle that has occurred to me as I've been digging to try and find out what Dr. Floyd's definition of a "fair offer" is to Moos. We are fixated on fair offer being low.....but what if it's high? What if this whole thing has been about justifying a $500-600K salary for Moos? It would make a lot of sense for Dr. Floyd to do things the way he did to make sure he doesn't catch to much heat in a recessionary period to basically double the salary of our Athletic Director.
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