It appears fairly seemingly that Oakland College males’s basketball coach Greg Kampe get a bonus fee for his No. 14-seeded group’s colossal, 80-76 upset of No. 3 seed Kentucky on Thursday night time in an NCAA males’s basketball event first-round recreation.
Nonetheless, based on the college’s common counsel’s workplace, solely two individuals know the quantity: Kampe and Oakland athletics director Steve Waterfield.
Kampe’s contract with the college, obtained by USA TODAY Sports activities by an open-records request, features a extremely uncommon association below which any performance-bonus funds are on the AD’s discretion and based mostly on unspecified objectives which are to be decided yearly and are topic to alter at any time. The one parameter established is that these bonuses can not complete greater than 19.9% of Kampe’s present base wage.
Kampe’s wage for this season is $329,609, the overall counsel’s workplace mentioned. (Kentucky coach John Calipari’s fundamental annual pay for this season is scheduled to be $8.5 million.)
Late final week, USA TODAY Sports activities requested Oakland for a replica of Kampe’s objectives and out there bonus quantities for this season. The overall counsel’s workplace responded by saying there is no such thing as a responsive doc.
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Most faculty sports activities coaches’ contracts embrace specified bonus objectives and quantities. For instance, whereas Calipari is the one Energy 5 convention males’s basketball coach whose contract consists of no bonuses for on-court efficiency, it specifies that he’ll get $50,000 if the group’s NCAA Educational Progress Fee determine for any given 12 months is a minimum of 975 out of a doable 1000.
Kampe’s take care of Oakland states: “The Athletics Director will yearly set up particular objectives for the Program, student-athletes collaborating within the Program and/or the Head Basketball Coach, and a Efficiency Incentive quantity for the profitable achievement of every such objective. The Athletics Director might revise the precise objectives and quantities occasionally after they’ve been established, however solely with prior discover to and after session with the Head Basketball Coach. The quantity of all such Efficiency Incentives and whether or not or not the objective has been achieved can be on the Athletics Director’s sole and absolute discretion; offered nonetheless, Efficiency Incentives can not exceed Nineteen and 90/100 % (19.9%) of the Head Basketball Coach’s then Base Annual Wage in anybody College fiscal 12 months.”
Kampe’s contract additionally says he’s yearly entitled to obtain a “Scheduling Bonus.” For this, the AD is to pick out one away recreation because the “Scheduling Bonus Recreation.” Kampe then receives an quantity equal to the looks assure that Oakland is paid for the sport, “much less all precise bills incurred by the College immediately associated to the Scheduling Bonus Recreation, together with with out limitation, transportation, meals, lodging, and so forth.” Ensures for males’s basketball video games towards Energy 5 groups may pay round $100,000 — maybe just a little extra — and Oakland sometimes performs greater than a kind of every season. The Golden Grizzlies performed at three Huge Ten colleges this season – Ohio State, Illinois and Michigan State.
These are simply a few the various methods in which there’s a large monetary hole between the Oakland and Kentucky applications — the varieties of gaps that make upsets like Thursday night time’s such a signature a part of the occasion:
▶Of their 2023 fiscal years, the colleges’ annual monetary studies to the NCAA confirmed that Kentucky attributed $23.6 million in working bills to males’s basketball. Oakland reported spending $17.6 million on its total athletics program, together with $2.3 million on males’s basketball.
▶Oakland’s complete outlay for sports activities in fiscal 2023 is simply over half of what Kentucky would owe Calipari as a buyout if it had been to fireside him with out trigger on April 1. That quantity is $34,968,749.
▶Three of Kentucky’s assistant coaches have base salaries for this season which are better than Kampe’s.
- Orlando Antigua is making $900,000, and he’ll get a $400,000 retention fee if he completes his three-year contract on June 30.
- Ronald “Chin” Coleman is making $600,000.
- Chuck Martin is making $350,000