First of all, I understand that everyone has their own opinion about the Scalley incident. I respect everyone’s opinion and I am not trashing how anyone else feels. We have all walked in different shoes and had different life experiences that mold us.
As for me – I think the punishment was too punitive. I understand that there had to be punishment, but half of his salary?
I might have said that for one or two years, we will take $250,000 of your salary and donate it to the NAACP. At least the money would have gone to a good cause.
I agree with the decision on ‘coach in waiting.’ That had to be done.
I am personally disappointed with the punishment, but life goes on.
Agreed! I get that the University had to do SOMETHING, but a 52.3% paycut? Too extreme. I wonder if this is Harlan’s doing? Harlan’s done a good job with securing Home-&-Home agreements with top-tier SEC teams, but a poor job at removing our ankle-biting little brother from our annual schedules. We shouldn’t play the tdS more than 5-times per decade TOPS, and no less than 3 of those games should be in SLC. He also seemed to roll over for the tdS in basketball, where Mark Pope was actively recruiting a signed Utah althlete — an NCAA violation.
If Scalley’s enormous paycut was Harlan’s doing, Harlan will soon need to start acting more like an advocate of the University of Utah, and less like a spineless politician.
PhillyUte,
I understood it to be a 50% pay cut as well but I learned today that the amount mentioned – $500,000+ is how much he’ll be paid the rest of this year. What that means is he returns to the 820K number from last season. This was the first year of the $1.2 million salary.
So it’s not as brutal. I know that the one-year contract is troubling to him and the staff. Besides opponents using the racial argument they can now plant doubt in a recruits mind that he may not stay at the U – leave for another job or be released.
I hope you’re right, because THAT would make a lot more sense.
This makes way more sense. But…
I’m glad it’s over. The whole thing sounds like every other bandaid citizens put on this culture to make it feel ok. These kids know they live in a racist system, we all do. I’m sure most are not surprised at all by things like this, just part of living in the US.
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