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He had a few flybys on HOB, that's about all I've seen though.
I'm around. Mostly seething on twitter like a junkyard dog watching punk teenagers shake the chain link fence while they unknowingly jar the latch open.
We can't read Canadian. Clean it up.
Huge offer to Hurley out there now.
HOB saying 8 years 100 million? Damn.
Will Matt get his revenge tweet on freezing Cold Takes? Sure not as fun when the rabbit has the gun. It’s been that way for us the last five years.
At least we might do the entire CBB world a solid and bankrupt UConn athletics while we're at it.
I realize that Bob Sr. is the king of doing more for less pay than he deserves, but you also have to wonder how much legacy, impact, and history factor into Dan’s long term goals.
UCONN is great and under the radar in the college landscape in terms of traditional power programs, but also gets a sliver of the local and national attention UK gets outside of NC years.
Brothers are competitive as shit. Especially in sports. Bob Jr obviously did more than Dan on the hardwood. Is a bigger legacy coaching wise than dad and making people forget about his brother entirely when mentioning the Hurley name in college basketball something that motivates Dan if $11mil a year doesn’t?
He seems like more of a perfectionist to me than a complacent I rest on my laurels and coast on my ego guy like Cal. It feels like Dan wants to be the best always, and it’s quite clear that UCONN can’t measure up to UK in any of the major things that decide long term success as a college basketball coach, whether it be fan base, pay, recruiting, NIL, media attention, or anything else that matters to high major D1 coaches, who by and large are some of the most hyper competitive ego maniacs in sports.
And UK gave Cal a lifetime contract with only one natty under his belt. The win at all costs pressure of the NBA, where the brand of basketball is opposite to the brand that Dan coaches just doesn’t seem like the same pull to him as getting more than NBA money with a better environment like UK would.
UCONN is great and under the radar in the college landscape in terms of traditional power programs, but also gets a sliver of the local and national attention UK gets outside of NC years.
Brothers are competitive as shit. Especially in sports. Bob Jr obviously did more than Dan on the hardwood. Is a bigger legacy coaching wise than dad and making people forget about his brother entirely when mentioning the Hurley name in college basketball something that motivates Dan if $11mil a year doesn’t?
He seems like more of a perfectionist to me than a complacent I rest on my laurels and coast on my ego guy like Cal. It feels like Dan wants to be the best always, and it’s quite clear that UCONN can’t measure up to UK in any of the major things that decide long term success as a college basketball coach, whether it be fan base, pay, recruiting, NIL, media attention, or anything else that matters to high major D1 coaches, who by and large are some of the most hyper competitive ego maniacs in sports.
And UK gave Cal a lifetime contract with only one natty under his belt. The win at all costs pressure of the NBA, where the brand of basketball is opposite to the brand that Dan coaches just doesn’t seem like the same pull to him as getting more than NBA money with a better environment like UK would.
If you really think Mitch is a great AD you’re a mouthbreather.
I see Bama sign Oats to an $18 million dollar buyout and just shake my head. That’s leading. I see AD’s who can convince someone to stay for less $$$. He had to pay Cal an insane amount of money to not leave. Mitch has one thing…..$$$.
His and Cal’s shenanigans are both the reason for this mess.
I see Bama sign Oats to an $18 million dollar buyout and just shake my head. That’s leading. I see AD’s who can convince someone to stay for less $$$. He had to pay Cal an insane amount of money to not leave. Mitch has one thing…..$$$.
His and Cal’s shenanigans are both the reason for this mess.
Regarding Oats, the buyout was the primary issue. We tried to negotiate it down from 18 million but their AD (who used to work with Mitch) refused to negotiate.
We are willing to go 8/$100 for Hurley but not willing to pay $18mm for Oats? I get the upfront payment but no way oats is getting Hurley’s offer. Prob more like 6/$50.
If the only hold up with Oats is the buyout, we might revisit this later on.
I *get* not wanting to hand over $18 mil to a school (especially in-conference) to swipe their coach, but it still seems worthwhile if we are swinging around up to NINE figures for an alternative. There are two college homeruns, IMO. He’s one of them. He’s worth that buyout.
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I'll actually give mitch credit here. If his 1a and 1b are drew/Hurley after he was told Oats buyout couldn't be negotiated, he played it right. Play them against each other and try to snag one.
If both fall through I bet we reconsider not paying the 18mil. Oats is worth that but not at the expense of getting Hurley.
If both fall through I bet we reconsider not paying the 18mil. Oats is worth that but not at the expense of getting Hurley.
His 1A was nobody else’s 1A. His boy has got him scrambling now. He can snag a coach with $$$$$. That’s all we need. A dude in it for the $. Cal will be telling every coach in America, that calls for advice, to pass on dealing with Mitch.
How much did we get for Cal in a buyout? Mitch is a terrible negotiator. All we got was a coach bad mouthing our AD. Cal loves us, the program, the governor and the players. Just not Mitch.
I don’t blame him. They are very similar people.
Mitch was just on TV. With a guy who had been dealing with schools for 2 months. Trying to get another job. They’re both the problem.
Trilly doesn’t think Beard is an option but says Pearl, Miller and Pope may be in that next tier.
He also mentioned he knows Donovan is interested but not sure how interested we are in him.
Also, said Drew called another SEC coach about the job and he genuinely asked them if his kids could go to school safely after a loss.
IOW, he called Cal, right? Who the heck else would have insight into that?
^ Let's take a break on the rapid fire posts. If you feel compelled to post everything that pops into your head, take it to Rafters.
I don't need whoever you are clogging this shit up -- especially now.
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Wasn’t that just a Mitch/Cal issue? It seems like most every other coach at least respects Mitch if not all out likes the guy. If Cal is bad mouthing the program in any form or fashion he can just STFU. It’s not Mitch’s fault that the last 7 years happened.
I’m in the camp that if Donovan seriously wants the job, and we have 💯 assurance of it, then we wait on him. Next year may be bad but it could possibly be like the 89’ team was and they were a shit load of fun to watch. We all know what happened after that. That is of of course if Hurley turns us down, I guess.
I don’t have a single issue w Mitch (yet). What has he botched thus far? If you read between the lines, it seems like Oats has some family issues that would make taking a new job 6 hours away difficult.
Gotta take Drew’s reasoning at face value. He’s got 3 kids who’ve only known Waco. He sent Maude to visit trinity christian academy yesterday and she felt it wasn’t a good fit for Rod and Todd, so they’re staying.
If he whiffs on Hurley and Donovan I will change my tune, but at this point (day 3 technically) I have no reason to believe he isn’t doing all he should or could.
Gotta take Drew’s reasoning at face value. He’s got 3 kids who’ve only known Waco. He sent Maude to visit trinity christian academy yesterday and she felt it wasn’t a good fit for Rod and Todd, so they’re staying.
If he whiffs on Hurley and Donovan I will change my tune, but at this point (day 3 technically) I have no reason to believe he isn’t doing all he should or could.
Man, F Drew. Yeah, Scott, previous coaches' kids were tarred and feathered after a road loss. You just never heard about it because it somehow wasn't covered on the zillions of different media outlets / social media sites there are.
I want Billy, he would crush, AND Mitch isn't the man of the hour, BUT you can obviously understand his trepidation with Donovan. I mean, he turned us down once, then took the job and got cold feet the second time.
I'm not saying mitch was right to make Drew his priority after the Oats call but I can tell you that I think it's logical to go all out for Hurley before spending 18 million on Oats, and I want Oats real bad.
We still have a lot of great options left.
We still have a lot of great options left.
We have gone from half the fanbase not wanting Drew to being in a panic because he didn’t take the job. ****ing loons.
Lexington is probably Sodom compared to Waco, so maybe the culture fit was a bigger deal than expected.
I don't recall that being a criticism against him when he coached at Florida. That's all I honestly care about.
Telegram from Alabama here:
* The issue with Oats is not the buyout, its the personal issues mentioned previously. However: he is not separated from his spouse currently. #truth
----> Getting Oats would be touchy and its not because of the money
** HENPECK
*** VSUYCOT or whatever it was
* The issue with Oats is not the buyout, its the personal issues mentioned previously. However: he is not separated from his spouse currently. #truth
----> Getting Oats would be touchy and its not because of the money
** HENPECK
*** VSUYCOT or whatever it was
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