It must be a blow to Calipari's ego that now that he is in a mediocre job he'd readily leave and never look back, he's not even on the "call if all else fails" list.
Hurley to Lakers?
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How much can a coach really coach with Lebron on the team?
This type of stuff is exactly why we hang on to the last scholly for as long as possible. Maybe we can poach a really good player. If this happens I'd love to rub it in th faces of the uconn fans that were teasing us when Hurley turned us down.
Help is on the way, Bronny🤣🤣
And this is the difference between LA and Lexington KY. His wife doesn't want to be in Appalachia.. but LA is LA, and it offers a TON more in opportunities. I suspect she won't be too upset with a mansion outside of LA.
Don't want to underestimate how big this is to remove Hurley/Uconn out of the way in college basketball. Getting Hurley to the NBA is almost as big of a win as landing a recruit IMO. It also removes what was looking to be a small stranglehold on northeast recruiting, where a place like UK isn't too far from.
Hurley is going to listen to what they have to say. A lot of money is going to be thrown at him.
Lexington isn't in Appalachia LMAO. It's in the bluegrass area of KY. An area comparable to southern/central Virginia.
He won’t work in the NBA. Only two big college coaches recently who became NBA lifers? Not screamers. Not totalitarians. Thick skin. Totally unlike Hurley.
But it doesn’t matter. California is awesome if you’re filthy rich, and he can easily demand 8 years 100 million. Even if you’re fired in a few years, you’ll have your pick of any NCAA job. If you do win, winning with the lakers puts you into GOAT conversations like Riley and Jackson. His ego will be very difficult to ignore.
It makes a lot more sense he turned down UK.
But it doesn’t matter. California is awesome if you’re filthy rich, and he can easily demand 8 years 100 million. Even if you’re fired in a few years, you’ll have your pick of any NCAA job. If you do win, winning with the lakers puts you into GOAT conversations like Riley and Jackson. His ego will be very difficult to ignore.
It makes a lot more sense he turned down UK.
To people from the northeast, urban Jersey, NYC, it’s all Appalachia. They don’t know or GAF to know.Lexington isn't in Appalachia LMAO. It's in the bluegrass area of KY. An area comparable to southern/central Virginia.
Btw I love NYC and get along great up there, but “Lexington” might as well be Mars to them.
Lexington isn't in Appalachia LMAO. It's in the bluegrass area of KY. An area comparable to southern/central Virginia.
I mean, does this change my point, in the end? I don't think it does.
Fine, Lexington isn't Appalachia.. but as someone else said, it might as well be to people who live in NYC or LA. Both parties have their judgements on the other places, some true, some not.
But hurleys wife clearly didn't want to live in Lexington KY (and it doesn't seem Scott Drew's family did either). But LA is probably a place more suited for her, IF her husband wants to get a big raise and move the family.
What’s funny is Lexington may have been to big for the Drew family, and too small for the Shirley’s. Autocorrect made me type that twice and I’m keeping it, but really it’s Hurley’s.
Weird how that might have been the case lol.
People who live in the northeast want something similar.. not only from a wealth perspective, but ideologies, politics, etc. No different than a lot of people from KY who probably want no business being on either coast.
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To me, NYC is a shi*hole, & I'd include the whole east coast as one, it's all the same. And I don't know or GAF to know if it isn't.
New York is awesome if you know where to go. There’s actually quite a few Kentuckians you’ll run into up there, there’s a strong horse/Irish connection. Kentuckians do well in NYC because we don’t GAF either lol. It’s not for everyone though, that’s for sure.
I'm guessing he will get offered more than that; I think Kerr makes about $17 million next year. The NBA is crazy money for top coaches as well as players.
I understand the notion that NYC is a shithole.. because.. it kind of is now. A lot different than when I was there in the late 2000s.
But to write off the whole rest of the NE? To each their own I guess. But there's a heck of a lot of good to be found in the NE. Whether it's Portland Maine, Boston, Greenpoint LI, Cape Cod, ADKs, Vermont.
Upstate NY has a lot of similarities to KY. Upstate NY is more conservative than NYC. Big on horses, lot of rolling hills and limestone. Big on horses and farms. You can have some city life with Albany NY, but you can be out in farmlands and rural life within 30 minutes.
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I'm glad right now he didn't take UK's offer; he'd have ditched us at the 1st opportunity. I also thought it curious
that he lost 2 lottery picks and a 1st team All-American and another quality starter and only replaced them with one mid-tier 5 star and a 4 star and one decent transfer.
that he lost 2 lottery picks and a 1st team All-American and another quality starter and only replaced them with one mid-tier 5 star and a 4 star and one decent transfer.
You’re right, this is a league that gave Tyron Lue $14 million
Goodman REALLY wants Pearl to get a different job. He's pimped him for every opening that's "better" than Auburn
I’m starting to think Pearl hangs it up at Auburn. He’s done a nice job there, and I’ve seen their fans say he is priming his son for the job- don’t think many other schools would entertain that idea.
That's what she said all right..."Massive" is a relative term.
I've been waiting on my chance.
Wow!! Pope to UCONN if he leaves! The dominoe's are falling!!!
That's what I keep telling the wife."Massive" is a relative term.
Didn’t know that. If that is the case, the Lakers and Celtics are the Pinnacle of The NBA. I just thought he was a college guy. Big ego coaches don’t seem to fit a culture where the players have all the power.
It’ll get old fast with pros, unless he chills out. But the minute he signs that contract he gets all the money, so long as he doesn’t do something unbelievably stupid.
Wouldn’t it be crazy for a Coach to turn down Kentucky and the the Lakers in the same year. Sounds like he will take the job 5 years 75 million guaranteed. If he is a bust he can land almost any College job out there.
He is miserable trying to deal with the broken college system.
No coach in their right mind can deal with the current $hitshow for very long.
Especially if they have better options. Right now, the NBA is a much better option than college coaching.
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No way Lexington is considered Appalachia.. I'd put maybe 1/3 of Ky in Appalachian area.. Rest is just flat country and cities..Lexington isn't in Appalachia LMAO. It's in the bluegrass area of KY. An area comparable to southern/central Virginia.
It's not flat everywhere. It's hilly mostly. Western KY is flat because it's in the mississippi delta. South-central KY and the bluegrass are rolling hills.
