Some strong praise from Western Michigan coach Bill Cubit in this latest Kalamazoo Gazette preview, including mention of Al Golden's salary.
Five-hundred-and-seventy-five-thousand dollars a year.
Hmm.
Just as we thought all along.
Al Golden is going nowhere, not because he makes $575,000 a year, but because both Temple and Golden's people, including his agent, wanted to make the deal a lock-solid one.
Temple, for its part, took a risk _ hiring an unproven assistant coach for a salary double what the next-highest coach in the MAC made.
The TU administration needed an insurance policy and Al Golden gave that to them in writing. There is no buyout. There never needed to be one.
Any buyout clause will be written into the next contract, after Golden gets the job done here.
That's where the "this university has made a commitment to me and my commitment to them is that I will build a house of brick, not straw" comment came from. That wasn't something Golden made up as a nice sound bite. It was part of the fabric of the contract between him and the university.
The straw house takes about three years to build.
The brick house takes five.
Al Golden is in this for at least five, hopefully more, years.
Golden realized a day or two before he was even hired that this two-way commitment was the minimum that was needed for Temple to turn this thing around.
For that, among all other things, he should be applauded.
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