I actually didn't realize this when I posted on Tuesday night, but earlier this week Greg Lovelady's name was mentioned in conjunction with the Ohio State job on the paywall side of D1Baseball.com:
"The OSU search continues with UCF’s Greg Lovelady, Campbell’s Justin Haire, Cincinnati’s Scott Googins, Central Michigan’s Jordan Bischel and Louisville’s Eric Snider still in the mix. Don’t be surprised, too, if some new candidates emerge at OSU. Two more names to file away at Ohio State include TCU assistant Bill Mosiello and Texas Tech assistant J-Bob Thomas."
Is there a reason Lovelady was listed first? Interesting.
Thanks to @ucferic8 for the heads up on this.
I received a copy of Greg Lovelady's most recent contract, which was updated in 2020 and runs through the 2025 season. His annual salary is set at $250,000 per year.
The most interesting thing though pertains to the buyout:
Read that final line:
"In the event Employee terminates this agreement to return to the state of Ohio, then UCFAA shall waive the amount owed by Employee to UCFAA for terminating the agreement."
We knew Lovelady had ties to Ohio from his decade-plus at Wright State, and I believe his wife is also from the area. So it's interesting that he had it written into his contract that he could return to Ohio without any buyout on his part. And what college baseball job in the state of Ohio could be viewed as on par or "better" than UCF? There's only one, IMO: Ohio State. Maybe he had other reasons, but I wonder if Lovelady has always had his eye on the Buckeye job.
Interesting there wasn't such a clause about leaving for Miami, but I'm guessing maybe Danny White wouldn't have agreed to that given the optics of UM being an in-state school. The contract is relatively small though, compared to what we see with football contracts, so that wouldn't have been much of an issue if Miami were interested at some point of hiring him away.
And here's the bonus structure, if interested:
"The OSU search continues with UCF’s Greg Lovelady, Campbell’s Justin Haire, Cincinnati’s Scott Googins, Central Michigan’s Jordan Bischel and Louisville’s Eric Snider still in the mix. Don’t be surprised, too, if some new candidates emerge at OSU. Two more names to file away at Ohio State include TCU assistant Bill Mosiello and Texas Tech assistant J-Bob Thomas."
Is there a reason Lovelady was listed first? Interesting.
Thanks to @ucferic8 for the heads up on this.
I received a copy of Greg Lovelady's most recent contract, which was updated in 2020 and runs through the 2025 season. His annual salary is set at $250,000 per year.
The most interesting thing though pertains to the buyout:
Read that final line:
"In the event Employee terminates this agreement to return to the state of Ohio, then UCFAA shall waive the amount owed by Employee to UCFAA for terminating the agreement."
We knew Lovelady had ties to Ohio from his decade-plus at Wright State, and I believe his wife is also from the area. So it's interesting that he had it written into his contract that he could return to Ohio without any buyout on his part. And what college baseball job in the state of Ohio could be viewed as on par or "better" than UCF? There's only one, IMO: Ohio State. Maybe he had other reasons, but I wonder if Lovelady has always had his eye on the Buckeye job.
Interesting there wasn't such a clause about leaving for Miami, but I'm guessing maybe Danny White wouldn't have agreed to that given the optics of UM being an in-state school. The contract is relatively small though, compared to what we see with football contracts, so that wouldn't have been much of an issue if Miami were interested at some point of hiring him away.
And here's the bonus structure, if interested:
