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Friday, March 21, 1997
Myers signs three-year deal as athletic director
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Gerald Myers has signed a three-year
contract to officially become Texas Tech's athletic director,
school president Donald Haragan said.
The deal pays $135,000 annually and includes a 4 percent bonus
if 85 percent of the athletes at Tech, which has been riddled
with academic problems in its athletic department lately, can
maintain 2.0 averages.
The bonus jumps to 9 percent if 95 percent of Tech athletes
reach the goal.
"The academic incentives were important to both of us,"
Haragan said.
The contract reportedly was signed last week. The school has
failed to respond to two separate Associated Press requests for
a copy of the pact, filed under the Texas Open Records Act.
Myers' successor, Bob Bockrath, broke a five-year, $125,000-per-year
deal last June to take the same position at Alabama. Bockrath's
grade incentives were slightly less demanding.
"It's structured in there to show how important academics
are to us," said Myers, whose department was nationally embarrassed
last month when it was discovered that at least two football players,
including star rusher Byron Hanspard, earned 0.00 GPA's for the
fall semester.
Haragan was vague as to why Myers' contract was two years shorter
than Bockrath's, saying that "a lot of things have been impacted
by the NCAA investigation."
The NCAA has been looking into alleged violations in the men's
basketball and football programs since February 1996.
Myers, 60, compiled a 326-261 record after 20-1/2 seasons as
Tech's basketball coach, ending in 1991. He has been a Tech administrator
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