So what does a basketball coach owe you, exactly? Does he owe it to you to stay three years? Five years? Ten? Does he owe you unvarnished honesty? For example, do you really want to hear from his mouth that where he coaches is strictly a business decision – knowing that your school can’t do business the way others do? Or do you want to hear that your place is special, that it has some indefinable something to make him resist the blandishments of others? Or does he simply owe you his best effort for the going wage – for whatever period of time he sees fit to give it, since there is never a guarantee the school will fulfill its pledge? Is he obliged to stay longer because you took a chance on him – even if success was delivered more quickly than you could have dreamed, and beyond predictable horizons?/John Blanchette, SR. More here.

Related: Sterk vows to find new coach quickly/Vince Grippi, SR

Question: So what does a successful coach of a team on the Palouse owe his/her university?