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[QUOTE="cuseinchina, post: 817800, member: 3079"]
Yes and no.   I mean it depends on what time horizon Gross has.   Whoever came up with the contract was idiotic and you can assume that Nancy had some say it determining what was to be valued and thus what would be incentivized.     That said, if Gross cares about his career prospects long-term he needs to care about 3 things - 1. getting out of the big east (check); 2. keeping basketball at its current elevated level (check - for now); 3. fixing football.       If he doesn't fix football he'll never get another big-school job and he'll eventually be fired here.  He had a hand in breaking it, and needs to right the ship.  So maybe his short-term incentives are aligned with olympic sports, but his mid to long-term incentives are implicitly all about football.   I think he's smart enough to know that.

In terms of fundraising and marketing though, he clearly needs help and it's disturbing that he put his wife in charge of that- insane actually.  and his long-term incentives are aligned with those activities as well - no room for pay raises for yourself if you can't run fiscally sound department.
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