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College AD Notes: Hocutt's New Deal With Texas Tech Pushes Annual Salary Above $1M

In Lubbock, Don Williams reports Texas Tech has reached a new seven-year extension with AD Kirby Hocutt worth $7.525M that is "designed to keep him at Tech" through August '23. Hocutt's base pay begins at $1M this school year and "increased by $25,000 a year, making the average annual value $1.075 million -- a 28-percent increase from a contract he signed only 11 months before." He also can make as much as $225,000 annually "in bonuses based on the athletic and academic success of Tech's 17 teams, attendance achievements and fundraising targets reached by the Red Raider Club." The contract "goes into effect next week and tacks two years" onto Hocutt's previous deal (LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-JOURNAL, 8/26).

THANKS, BUT NO THANKS: In San Diego, Mark Zeigler reports San Diego State men's basketball coach Steve Fisher "was approached by several influential boosters" about filling the school's AD vacancy while staying as coach, though Fisher "politely declined" the offer. Fisher said, "I'm a basketball coach. I want to help in other areas as much as I can, but my goal was not and is not to be an athletic director." Former AD Jim Sterk left SDSU earlier this month to take the same position at Missouri. Fisher said that he was "never approached by SDSU president Elliot Hirshman, indicating the plan was hatched by 'big boosters and those sort of people'" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 8/26).

WAIT & SEE: UNLV AD Tina Kunzer-Murphy on Thursday said that she will decide in October "whether to return after her three-year contract expires at the end of the year." In Las Vegas, Mark Anderson notes Kunzer-Murphy, who is a UNLV alum, is "responsible for relatively new hires in the most visible programs" -- Tony Sanchez is entering his second year as football coach, while Marvin Menzies is prepping for his first season leading the men's basketball team. The search to hire Sanchez "was smooth and well-received," though the one that "eventually landed Menzies was rocky and brought negative publicity to the athletic department." The success of those coaches "over the long haul will be most of what determines whether Kunzer-Murphy's time as athletic director is termed a success" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 8/26).

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