Initial contracts....when Pikiell was hired. This is all public information that NJ dot com always publishes. When Pikiell was extended in 2018, they were all bumped up....there is also an article on that. I think the assistants got 5% raises.
A key first step was increasing the assistant coaches salary pool to the highest in school history for the men's basketball program, guaranteeing $800,000 for the three-man staff (which was a $220,000 increase from what deposed coach
Eddie Jordan had to offer).
They come at a steep price compared to past Rutgers assistant staffs: both Karl Hobbs and Knight were given two-year deals worth $300,000 annually while Young was given a one-year deal worth $200,000.
https://www.nj.com/rutgersbasketball/2016/04/a_look_at_what_rutgers_is_paying_its_assistant_bas.html
That's what we call stale info.....i will assure you it's not accurate. Both Knight and Hobbs are well beyond 300K and so was Young.
The other "item" that most coaches around the country pass down to assistant coaches are camps. Every program or Head Coach has a camp during the summer....some like Duke have a camp for regular wealthy people for 3 to 5 days, where regular people get to go through the rigors of what a week is like for a Duke basketball player.
In these instances the Head Coach usually doesn't pocket the camp money although on paper it's more accounting than anything else. Typically those camp funds usually land with the assistants as an indirect thank you for all of their efforts. Those items go a long way.
The discussion is about who we hire and not about a lack of funds, which there's no merit or support for the notion that the one spot isn't filled because of lack of funds. I think it's a reasonably good guess that making the right hire here, supercedes making the fastest hire. I have seen assistant coaching jobs go all the way into mid June at other schools, some fiscal years dont end until June 30th or start on July 1st. There's a lot on the plate for whatever assistant comes here, family, kids in school perhaps, open sessions right now and the live period.
There are always commitments after the spring signing period, so there is no true deadline. I am certain that with 94% of the minutes played returning to the lineup, RU can be selective and focus on 2020 recruiting while keeping an eye on 2019.
