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FAU pays their coach 50% LESS than UTEP
FAU plays in front of 4-8x LESS fans than UTEP does
FAU has won as many NCAA Tournament games in this NCAA Tournament as UTEP has since 1986.
We should just be happy with the most expensive tickets ever, the worst conference ever, and 3 NCAA Tournaments in 31 years though!
FAU pays their coach 50% LESS than UTEP
FAU plays in front of 4-8x LESS fans than UTEP does
FAU has won as many NCAA Tournament games in this NCAA Tournament as UTEP has since 1986.
We should just be happy with the most expensive tickets ever, the worst conference ever, and 3 NCAA Tournaments in 31 years though!
Bunch of good guards and a nice big. All young too. May should be gone after their last game. Now rooting for UCONN.
Where is he going? Only open jobs that would be a step up are Cal, Penn St, Temple, Texas Tech, and Texas. South Florida is close to hiring Utah St’s coach. Surely he wouldn’t leave FAU for Utah St. Tech is close to hiring UNT’s. Doubt he would leave for UNT either.
Gotta keep rooting for them, at least for the money distribution.
Utah St hired its last 2 coaches from South Dakota and UMBC. Neither of which were coming off a Final 4 run.
No, but that’s the beauty of upsets. If everyone knew Purdue would lose, they or Memphis would have been picked more often to so.
No that is not what I am saying. Utah St is going to lose their coach to USF. They got their last 2 coaches from smaller schools, none of which made the Final 4. FAU will pay May all they can to keep him. I don’t really see a AAC coach coming off a F4 appearance to get a job like Utah St. Especially since he has no ties to the area or school.
They have already said they plan on upping his salary. I just don’t think he would leave for Utah St.
Maybe, but I bet he would leave in a New York Minute for another school if it paid more.
After my bracket was busted, and Texas got hosed, I am all in on a Florida title game, FAU vs The U.
Still sore about UConn costing me my bracket when they beat Memphis in the title game....
For those that keep giving UTEP excuses and have the “wait until next year” mentality.
“May said he started feeling buyer's remorse after he saw the team's facilities. The locker rooms were small. The arena only sat 2,500 people. Both were outdated, compared to what the former Florida assistant was used to under Gators coach Mike White.”
"At that point, I still haven't been to our gym, our weight room, our locker room," he said. "The facilities weren't up to par. And I had already accepted the job… I would've left and went back to Gainesville after signing the contract if it wasn't for my relationship with Mike (White) and his family."
FAU's athletic director Brian White is the brother of May's former boss, Mike White.
"We didn't trick him or anything. I mean, I'd be lying if I told you that we showed him the arena before he signed his contract," Brian White told CBS Sports. "That came after."
“May said he started feeling buyer's remorse after he saw the team's facilities. The locker rooms were small. The arena only sat 2,500 people. Both were outdated, compared to what the former Florida assistant was used to under Gators coach Mike White.”
"At that point, I still haven't been to our gym, our weight room, our locker room," he said. "The facilities weren't up to par. And I had already accepted the job… I would've left and went back to Gainesville after signing the contract if it wasn't for my relationship with Mike (White) and his family."
FAU's athletic director Brian White is the brother of May's former boss, Mike White.
"We didn't trick him or anything. I mean, I'd be lying if I told you that we showed him the arena before he signed his contract," Brian White told CBS Sports. "That came after."
Dusty May thought he 'committed career suicide' taking Florida Atlantic job
Florida Atlantic basketball coach Dusty May has led the Owls to their first Final Four in program history, but there was a point where he wanted out.
www.usatoday.com
“ Dusty May, the rising star coach behind FAU’s current Final Four run, told CBSSports.com last week that he almost backed out of the job in 2018 when he saw the condition of the basketball facilities after he had already signed his contract. Asked to elaborate on Thursday, May said that “the people, the area, the campus at FAU, it blew me away how impressive it was,” but the basketball facilities “were still in kind of a time warp.”
sports.yahoo.com
From a leaky bus to the Final Four: Inside Florida Atlantic's unfathomable run
Thirty years ago, opposing fans felt sorry for Florida Atlantic University. Saturday, FAU will play in the Final Four. That's how far the Owls have come.
That guy making half of what Terry and Bronzeing make was 2 seconds away from the championship game. Here we are, doing nothing about finishing in 10th place. UTEP has no excuses not to be a NIT caliber team almost every year.
Nice Cinderella story but that’s not the norm. More often than not if we find some unknown coach and pay him half of what we pay Golding the unknown coach will not make the final four.
All the coaches in the elite 8 except May are making over 1.3 million per year. That’s the real formula for success. Hire a good coach and pay him his worth.
All the coaches in the elite 8 except May are making over 1.3 million per year. That’s the real formula for success. Hire a good coach and pay him his worth.
It is a nice story, and I am not suggesting or demanding that UTEP should be able to get to the Final 4. It’s highly likely UTEP will never make it to or past the Elite 8 again.
We don’t need to pay 1.3M to get to the Elite 8 because that is unrealistic and not the expectations of the majority of UTEP fans.
Cause it’s was probably a one in a century for them to do what they did. Just like UTEP.
They had one senior from what I remember. They also have another player that is testing the draft but is keeping his eligibility. I think they were mostly underclassmen.
I do remember they had a senior that was a starter a couple of seasons ago and he lost his starting position. But instead of transferring like most would do these days, he hung around and was put in late in the elite eight and made the clutch last minute free throws that got them to advance. The commentators were talking about this and I thought that was pretty cool.
I also think that missing a spot in the national championship game by a last second shot probably also helped FAU keep all their players this year too. As for any NIL deals, I would expect that tourney run also helped with the donor money as well. Winning and winning on that stage is a game changer. I would be curious what the FAU NIL money was last year compared to this year.
I dont think they had an NIL last season, but they have one now.
