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According to Painttouches: Marquette players Wade, Butler, Crowder, Matthews and Novak (only ones guaranteed for next year though Buycks and McNeal likely will be on a roster) are guaranteed at least $224 million year. The rest of the Big East combined is guaranteed $214 million.

Not usually a big NBA guy (I do love my Bulls) but that's some serious cash for 5 players and like 90% of that is from four of them.

Xavier's HOF'er D. West gave up 11 million to win, so thats worth something. But other than that, not much to show in the NBA for X. Semaj is putting up great numbers so hopefully he gets a shot to get some NBA minutes. That being said, a lot of our alumni are doing very well overseas.

DudeAnon wrote:Xavier's HOF'er D. West gave up 11 million to win, so thats worth something. But other than that, not much to show in the NBA for X. Semaj is putting up great numbers so hopefully he gets a shot to get some NBA minutes. That being said, a lot of our alumni are doing very well overseas.

Gotta give him credit, sometimes winning is worth more than anything

MUBoxer wrote:Marquette players Wade, Butler, Crowder, Matthews and Novak (only ones guaranteed for next year though Buycks and McNeal likely will be on a roster) are guaranteed at least $224 million year. The rest of the Big East combined is guaranteed $214 million.

Not usually a big NBA guy (I do love my Bulls) but that's some serious cash for 5 players and like 90% of that is from four of them.

A little misleading...

Top 20 Big East Alums according to salary per ESPN:

Monroe (GU) - 17.1M
Butler (MU) - 16.4 M
Hibbert (GU) - 15.6 M
Hayward (BU) - 15.4 M
Wade (MU) - 15 M
Lowry (VU) - 12 M
*West (XU) - 12 M (his true value; the fact that he walked away from is contract to try to win, should not be held against him)
Green (GU) - 9.4 M
Matthews (MU) - 7.3 M
Chandler (DU) - 6.8 M
Koerver (CU) - 5.7 M
Porter (GU) - 4.7 M
Dalembert (SHU) - 4.1 M
Novak (MU) - 3.8 M
Foye (VU) - 3.2 M
Tolliver (CU) - 3 M
Harkless (SJU) - 2.9 M
Cunningham (VU) - 2.9 M
McBuckets (CU) - 2.4 M
Mack (BU) - 2.4 M

Only team not represented in Top 20, interestingly is Providence. With Ryan Gomes not being picked up yet and Bryce still working on a rookie contract, they missed the list.

But to represent that the Marq players together make more than the rest of the BE combined is a BIG stretch. I don't think the Marq players make as much as the G'town alums by themselves let alone the entire BE.

GumbyDamnit! wrote:

MUBoxer wrote:Marquette players Wade, Butler, Crowder, Matthews and Novak (only ones guaranteed for next year though Buycks and McNeal likely will be on a roster) are guaranteed at least $224 million year. The rest of the Big East combined is guaranteed $214 million.

Not usually a big NBA guy (I do love my Bulls) but that's some serious cash for 5 players and like 90% of that is from four of them.

A little misleading...

Top 20 Big East Alums according to salary per ESPN:

Monroe (GU) - 17.1M
Butler (MU) - 16.4 M
Hibbert (GU) - 15.6 M
Hayward (BU) - 15.4 M
Wade (MU) - 15 M
Lowry (VU) - 12 M
*West (XU) - 12 M (his true value; the fact that he walked away from is contract to try to win, should not be held against him)
Green (GU) - 9.4 M
Matthews (MU) - 7.3 M
Chandler (DU) - 6.8 M
Koerver (CU) - 5.7 M
Porter (GU) - 4.7 M
Dalembert (SHU) - 4.1 M
Novak (MU) - 3.8 M
Foye (VU) - 3.2 M
Tolliver (CU) - 3 M
Harkless (SJU) - 2.9 M
Cunningham (VU) - 2.9 M
McBuckets (CU) - 2.4 M
Mack (BU) - 2.4 M

Only team not represented in Top 20, interestingly is Providence. With Ryan Gomes not being picked up yet and Bryce still working on a rookie contract, they missed the list.

But to represent that the Marq players together make more than the rest of the BE combined is a BIG stretch. I don't think the Marq players make as much as the G'town alums by themselves let alone the entire BE.

Dude I'm just reporting what paint touches told me.

You're reporting Wade and Matthews old salary it's now $16,407,500 for Matthews and Wade just signed a 1 year $20M and you forgot Crowder who just resigned for $7M as well.

Just addressing the Georgetown comparison

That's 20 + 16.4 + 16.4 + 7 + 3.8 = 66.6M this year for Marquette

Compared to Georgetown's 17.1 + 15.6 + 9.4 = 42.1M this year for Georgetown

Personally i don't know how they calculated everything out saying MU's guys were making more, maybe they included the season ending salaries of Buycks (unknown), Blue (unknown) and McNeal (981K) who were on the Lakers and Suns at the end of last season. Also possible that Doc Rivers (10M) and Jom Boylen (unknown salary) were included in their salary count.

Ok. Whatever. Just saying that your original statement that suggested that the Marq alums make more than the rest of the BE alums combined is not accurate. But good for those guys. They'll make more in a year that most of us will make in a lifetime.

GumbyDamnit! wrote:Ok. Whatever. Just saying that your original statement that suggested that the Marq alums make more than the rest of the BE alums combined is not accurate. But good for those guys. They'll make more in a year that most of us will make in a lifetime.

Lol nice shrug off but own up to being wrong on the Georgetown part just like I am for reporting something before checking it. Thanks for checking the facts it made me ask paint touches where they got their info (spotrac) and found out they were basing it off guaranteed money so after double checking their figures (nothing better to do on a lazy saturday morning) I've found Painttouches was wrong and that you forgot Hollis Thompson as well as Crowder on your list.

Dalembert does not have guaranteed money this year
Seton Hall: $0

Harkless: $8,323,699
St John's: $8,323,699

Chandler: $26,549,155
Depaul: $26,549,155

West: $36,000,000
Xavier: $36,000,000

Korver: $24,000,000
McDermott: $4,658,400
Tolliver: $6,000,000
Creighton: $34,658,400

Hayward: $62,965,420
Mack: $4,866,666
Butler: $67,832,086

Cunningham: $8,997,750
Foye: $6,000,000
Lowry: $48,000,000
Villanova: $62,997,750

Porter: $13,411,440
Hibbert: $58,443,748
Green: $35,200,000
Monroe: $51,437,513
Thompson: $1,306,662
Georgetown: $159,799,363

McNeal: $26,919 (I laughed at this)
Novak: $15,000,002
Wade: $20,000,000
Crowder: $35,000,000
Butler: $94,343,126
Matthews: $70,060,026
Marquette: $234,430,073

Rest of Big East: $396,160,453

Anthony Tolliver, a Creighton alum plays for the Detroit Pistons and they recently picked up his 1.8 million dollar option.

Jet915 wrote:Anthony Tolliver, a Creighton alum plays for the Detroit Pistons and they recently picked up his 1.8 million dollar option.

Fixed, thanks for the correction. If you notice anything else please do let me know!

MUBox, You went back to edit your post to say "according to Painttouches" but didn't amend their incorrect statement when you yourself learned that it wasn't remotely accurate. Why? Great work by you to do the leg work. But why not, while editing, did you not call out their error in the OP?