Go get Nate
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Mitch and Cal did this in the most amicable way! Perfect exit for both parties! Dan Hurley, Jay Wright, or Nate Oats, come on down!
Don’t think DH or JW are obtainable. Plus no coach has won a title at two diff schools unless you count Rick.
Oats is knocking at the door of a title. Gotta get him.
Oats is knocking at the door of a title. Gotta get him.
You gotta think the money u save by making the right hire is better then messing up 5 years.
Really??? Do like uk basketball cause this hire would be the end of that, I don’t get some of our fans. We aren’t southern miss, that’s a hire they
make…..not uk.
UK can pay the buyout. They had the money to pay cal 33 million. Craft said no but he had the money. This is different and 15 million less.
I think UK/donors are much more excited about spending money to bring in the guy rather than spend money to get rid of a guy.
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If Cal leaves for another job, there is no buyout. He voids his contract with UK.
I’m sure we will lose them all. Is what it is. You can build a title contender from nothing in a year now.
We don’t need them… just make a roster full of transfers with the new coach…
I would like to keep fland and quantaince but if they have to leave to get a new coach it is what it is
$18 million...no worries there I don't think. If they were truly willing to buyout Cal then ALL of this was a show to allow Cal to walk on his own.
It is the reason none of his camps were scheduled too. They knew what was happening, Mitch and Cal and probably everyone else.
Yeah, but Oats has to be interested. That’s not a guarantee at all.
Fans need to pressure Mitch for Oats. Now with no buy out(of Cal) go get our guy.
It’ll come with a huge buyout and a 7.5+M salary but would be the most supported realistic move.
It’ll come with a huge buyout and a 7.5+M salary but would be the most supported realistic move.
I think he will certainly be interested and may very well crawl here. This is UK. He is at the football school version or UK Basketball now. He had 50 people greet him for FF.
UK would have to outbid Bama, who has far more to spend than we do. They also have better NIL funding and he has had success there. Then UK would also have to pay the 18 million buyout in top of that. Oats ain't happening.
NO NO NO....go all in on Danny Hurley buyout be damned then Billy Donovan...Oates as a third choice if those 2 say no thank you
No. Oats knows the SEC already, Billy is in the NBA and aint coming back. UK cant waste time with the portal open. Need a HC stat. Nate will walk to Lexington now.
They all going to follow him except for maybe Travis Perry. And that’s ok they can all leave
Mitch absolutely can not screw this up. This is how we become UCLA or Indiana. I hope he has help because he doesn’t exactly have the best record.
