SEATTLE — Strengthening its dedication to Mick Cronin, UCLA quietly awarded its males’s basketball coach a brand new five-year contract final summer time that runs by way of the 2029-30 season, in accordance with paperwork reviewed by The Instances by way of a public-records request.
The contract that was signed by Cronin and athletic director Martin Jarmond in Could and took impact June 1 can pay Cronin $4.5 million per season, a slight increase over the $4.1 million he was making below the earlier contract that was set to run out after the 2027-28 season.
“I’m honored to be the coach at UCLA,” Cronin advised The Instances late Saturday evening after his workforce’s 82-72 loss to Gonzaga at Local weather Pledge Enviornment. “For me, I’ve no inklings of being anyplace else. I’ve had many gives to take action. I’m the place I need to be so I’ll all the time say the identical factor — it was surreal after I obtained the job and I’m simply working laborious to do every thing we will to improve our program to a degree to the place we will attempt to win the title for our followers, and that’s all I actually fear about. I’m at that time in my profession, so in the event that they need to lengthen me, I take it as a result of I’m not trying to go anyplace.”
The contract was not introduced on the time it was signed, in accordance with an athletic division spokesperson, due to the monetary local weather throughout the college, notably given the prospect of federal funding cuts.
Cronin’s contract was signed not lengthy after he guided UCLA to the second spherical of the NCAA event, the place the Bruins misplaced to Tennessee. Cronin’s earlier groups reached the Last 4 in 2021 and the Candy 16 in 2022 and 2023.
Cronin, 54, has compiled a 145-67 document in seven seasons with the Bruins, his accomplishments together with a Pac-12 title in 2023 that his workforce gained by a four-game margin over second-place Arizona.
His new contract features a buyout provision that requires him to be paid $22.5 million if he’s terminated with out trigger by way of March 31, 2026. The buyout quantity drops to $18 million if he’s terminated with out trigger by way of March 31, 2027; $13.5 million by way of March 31, 2028; $9 million by way of March 31, 2029; and $4.5 million by way of March 31, 2030.
The buyout features a mitigation clause that may offset UCLA”s buyout obligations by way of future employment over the period of the contract.
If Cronin have been to go away for one more job, he would owe UCLA $15 million by way of March 31, 2026, with that quantity dropping to $12 million by way of March 31, 2027; $8 million by way of March 31, 2028; $6 million by way of March 31, 2029; and $4 million by way of March 31, 2030.
The bonus construction in Cronin’s contract requires him to make $25,000 for a convention championship and $15,000 for a convention event championship. He’ll get an additional $45,000 if the Bruins make the NCAA event, $25,000 for making the second spherical, $40,000 for making the Candy 16, $25,000 for making the Elite Eight, $50,000 for making the Last 4, $25,000 for making the championship recreation and $50,000 for profitable the nationwide title. If Cronin is chosen convention coach of the yr, he’ll make a further $10,000.
Cronin might be awarded further quantities for his workforce’s tutorial efficiency, together with retention bonuses of $500,000 if he’s employed by way of April 15, 2026; $600,000 if he’s employed by way of April 15, 2027; $700,000 if he’s employed by way of April 15, 2028; and $700,000 if he’s employed by way of April 15, 2029.
