[C]ongratulations on the new contract extension — it’s quite the accomplishment.
Not many Connecticut residents can boast about getting a 25 percent increase in salary as a reward for a less-than-stellar year — especially your fellow state employees, many of whom are taking furlough days and foregoing pay increases because of the state’s fiscal crisis.
[M]issing seven games over a 23-day period, finishing the season with an 18-16 mark and a second-round NIT loss, and an NCAA investigation into alleged recruiting violations, and yet still pocketing a $400,000 pay increase, is something. That is, at least, how we understand the new five-year, $13 million extension is defined — retroactive to this past season with a salary increase from $1.6 million to $2 million.
And then another raise, $2.3 million, for the coming year…