Is there any talk of oscar being on the hot seat other than on here? I bet we have oscar for at least two more years regardless of how awful we are.
It's the inevitability of what will happen.
We aren't winning crap this year, and we most likely won't even get to the NIT. If that happens, season ticket sales will plummet.
With falling ticket sales and decreased revenue, oscar has one more season to right the ship. But our complete lack of a point guard and no post play will almost guarantee that next year will be just like this. If that happens, season ticket sales will fall again, revenues will decrease, etc.
MIR probably said it best (paraphrasing) when he said that Currie won't allow a revenue sport to slip so far that it will hurt his ability to create that massive surplus. I agree with that.
How much does he owe oscar and for how many years?
Not sure. I know his contract was extended to 2019 earlier this year. However, I don't know if we have a buyout clause or not. He makes $1.85m a year with a 100k escalator every year. So, we'd owe him $1.95 next year, $2.05m, $2.15m, and then $2.25m.
Now...Underwood makes $400k next year at SFA. My guess is that he'd probably take the job for $900k-$1.1m. If that's the case, and we have to pay oscar each year for the remainder of his contract, we'd be eating about $3.0-$3.3m per year for a basketball coach, all things considered. That's not completely horrible.
But we won't be able to go out there and get a guy for another $2+ million a year for sure.
Besides, if Underwood were here for three years and had strong success, we'd give him a big bump pretty quickly to retain him, so it would all balance out.
