Penny Hardaway and his old college in Memphis, a collaboration that is set to last.
ESPN is indeed reporting that the Tigers coach, player in the ranks of the program from 1989 to 1993, extended his contract for an additional 16.5 million dollars, excluding bonuses. He will therefore be in office at least until 2028.
According to information from our colleagues, the contract had in fact been in the pipeline since December 2020. But the university was subsequently targeted by an NCAA investigation, against a background of cheating in the recruitment of James Wiseman there. a few years ago, which logically delayed the agreement between the two camps. The investigation now closed and the verdict given after several months of waiting (a fine of 5,000 dollars, the obligation to remove from the team’s balance sheet two victories obtained with James Wiseman, and three years on probation), the formalization of the extension of the contract of the former iconic leader of the Magic could then be done.
Named on the sound bench alma mater in March 2018, Penny Hardaway has a record of 84 wins and 43 losses in four seasons in Tennessee, all concluded with more than 20 victories. He also won the NIT with his Tigers in the spring of 2021 (National Invitation Tournamentthe “little March Madness”), and qualified the program for “March Madness” last March, after eight years of absence.
