With this looming cataclysm...

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Y2k ALMOST happened, so it's a good thing I built a bunker that contained:

- Canned food
- Porn
- HiFi with Supertramp, YES, ELO and James Gang albums

#amiright?

My friend bought a house in Northern Virginia and it was built in the 50's and it came with it's own nuclear bomb shelter.  There was a submarine hatch in the garage to access it.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Illinois offered Shaka Smart $2.6 million/year, which is out of Buzz's ballpark. Frank Martin reportedly is making about $2 million at South Carolina, which is around Buzz's ballpark.

You sure on the bolded?  I am not....nor do I believe that either public school would swallow at least 2 times that on a Buzz buy-out check to MU when they are both paying millions for ex-coaches to go away.  SMU would have and did for Brown and crew.  I won't even get into the craptacular hoops facilities at each state school whereas SMU is putting money forward on theirs as they enter the BE.

[Pakuni]

You sure on the bolded?  I am not....nor do I believe that either public school would swallow at least 2 times that on a Buzz buy-out check to MU when they are both paying millions for ex-coaches to go away.  SMU would have and did for Brown and crew.  I won't even get into the craptacular hoops facilities at each state school whereas SMU is putting money forward on theirs as they enter the BE.

How about "out of the ballpark for what's been reported" as Buzz's salary. Do you know something the rest of us don't (because there aren't nearly enough "insiders" around here)?

SMU paid Larry Brown's retirement a large buyout?

[Benny B]

$2.6M... Meh.  I'm sure Buzz makes more that that just from the Bubb's BBQ royalties.

[Dr. Blackheart]

How about "out of the ballpark for what's been reported" as Buzz's salary. Do you know something the rest of us don't (because there aren't nearly enough "insiders" around here)?

I don't know anything else that the ordinary common poster around here couldn't fact check.  Considering Buzz's escalator, I think it is Shaka at U of I who was out of Buzz's ballpark.  As to Brown, his salary, Jankovich's buyout and raise plus Howard and WWW...I would say that is a very nice retirement fund.

His (Williams) rollover remains intact, but now his total pay is $2.5 million for the first year in his new contract.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/121830299.html#!page=2&pageSize=10&sort=newestfirst

Illinois offered Shaka Smart $2.6 million/year, which is out of Buzz's ballpark. Frank Martin reportedly is making about $2 million at South Carolina, which is around Buzz's ballpark.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

You can't go wrong with ELO canned food and porn.

fixed.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

IWB is more right than you guys know.

[Benny B]

IWB is more right than you guys know.

Agreed... Never took him as an Obama guy, myself.

[leever]

So what should I have learned from this?  

English Muffins?

[Hoopaloop]

So you're okay if our standards are higher than Purdue, Indiana, Wisconsin, Syracuse, Villanova etc.? Fine. How do you think Painter, Crean, Bo, Boeheim or Wright woulld be with it if their administration  upped their standards while the rest of their competition stood pat? Of course, that won't happen. Nobody could be that stupid/shortsighted. Right?

I'm going to answer this in the new standards thread where it belongs

[Bocephys]

I'm going to answer this in the new standards thread where it belongs

Thanks for letting us know!