Jason Groves checks in with details on the contract of Marvin Menzies

Why certain items are included in a contract are inexplicable. What we want to know is if Coach Menzies insisted a bonus for winning the national championship be in his new contract or is it something New Mexico State brought up? Now this is not any knock of Menzies as having such in any WAC coach's contract is an exercise in silliness.

NMSU Regents expected to extend Menzies' contract
Jason Groves
Las Cruces Sun-News
7/28/2009

At its July meeting on Wednesday, the New Mexico State University Board of Regents is expected to consider a contract extension through April 2012 for Aggies men's basketball coach Marvin Menzies.

Menzies' contract is one of eight for coaches at the university that the Board is expected to approve at its meeting, but he is the only head coach listed on the Board's agenda...

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There are many more details in Groves' companion piece here. Hey, why not $50k for academic achievement?