What happens when you don’t go extension crazy.

Unlike Tinkle, Hopkins never came close to an Elite 8 in his final five seasons so UW had no reason to extend him.

There was already a one year extension in his contract for doing what he did. There was no reason to give him another three.

That’s the big thing. No one was going to poach him given his overall record at OSU. And while we all greatly enjoyed the E8 run. I doubt it did much to elevate him in coaching circles given that the team was .500 in conference and plus 2 overall in regular season. You give him the raise and maybe tack on another year. That’s why I don’t have a big problem with his current salary — the E8 run earned him a raise. Hopefully Barnes has learned that years are more important than money to a large extent and he doesn’t negotiate against himself in the future.

Unless you at the top of the athletic department, or have had the people at the top of the athletic department tell you directly it's the case.... none of us can say if there was interest in Tinkle or not.

OSU basketball was bad for decades. Tinkle took them to the tournament in short order, had a good shot at the NIT 2 seasons in a row then an elite 8 run. There may or may not have been some casting about at the time. Only the true insiders would know.

Tinkle in his 10th year has last place locked up. Yet there are still some of you who think next year is the year. The only reason he hasn't been canned is 8.7.

First, enough with the almost made 2 NITs. The only people who care or believe that are Beaver fans. I follow college basketball pretty closely and I can’t recall seeing any mention of “and he almost got to 2 NITs” when discussing a coach’s resume.

Tinkle was making $2.2M before the extension. His overall record was 113-109 and his conference record was 52-76. He had 1 year over .500 in conference and 2 years at .500. I’m not going to do the research, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find a coach with that record who was then hired at a top school — especially with his mediocre recruiting record outside of the “sons.” And at that salary, today he’d be in top 60 best paid coaches, so probably was higher rank back then, it would have had to been a top job. Then when you factor in he had a raise to $2.5 on the table, I don’t have to be an insider to know that he wasn’t in demand. Further, if you want to look back in my posts I ran through the jobs that were open that year and none of the schools who had top openings would have been interested in him.

Plenty of discussions on here whether Tinkle should have been let go prior to that season, and though I tended toward the time to let him go side, I could see the other side’s points. Those points were not anywhere close to what it would have taken for a school with a top job to be interested in him — even with the E8 run with a regular season record of 14-12. Barnes botched the extension. Hopefully he’s learned.

A lot of parity at the bottom this year.  5-14 would be 11th last year, tied for 10th the year before, and 10th the year before that.  No truly awful teams in the Pac-12 this year.

If the team stays together, next year is Oregon State's year in the West Coast Conference.  No doubts in my mind.