With an assist from the Utah Jazz’s Ryan Smith and Danny Ainge, BYU makes a hire that could alter its future, Tribune columnist Gordon Monson writes.
With an assist from the Utah Jazz’s Ryan Smith and Danny Ainge, the Cougars make a move that could truly alter their future.
Either way, it takes that kind of firepower to lure to Provo a coach who was one of the NBA’s highest-paid assistants, a guy who was a candidate for multiple head coaching jobs in the NBA, and if you buy into one report already had turned down an NBA head coaching offer.
BYU will never voluntarily reveal what it pays its coaches. In the past, that’s been as much because it’s embarrassed to admit the paltry numbers in its contracts as much as because it’s a private school that isn’t required to ‘fess up.now says Young will be paid $30 million over seven years for his deal. You read that right … $30 million. That’s not news at a lot of big-eyed basketball and football schools around the country, but at BYU, that’s mind blowing.
The money, apparently, is now flowing more freely. Smith has to be a big part of that. The man owns the Jazz, he owns part of Real Salt Lake, he’s about to own an NHL team, and he wants his alma mater to thrive in a sport he regularly plays on the court he’s built into his house in Alpine. His truck, along with his buddy, Ainge, is significant at BYU.It’s been a long time coming.
How good a coach will Young be? As mentioned, he knows the game, but there have been coaches before him who had memorized every X and every O, but who failed nonetheless. He has much to learn, and that’s why drawing in expert assistants, those who know the college game, will be huge for him. Throw money at Burgess and those who are close to the Utah assistant say he, too, would join the Cougar cause. We’ll see.
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