Kentucky has ‘home-run hire’ lurking.
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One negative about Donovan is he has no players to bring, nor recruits to bring with him. Combine that with the fact he would not be available for a couple of weeks, and it would leave us with a pretty barren roster next year. But going forward ….all good
Some of Kals recruits might want to play for Donavan instead of play for a inferior coach. Plus Donavan would probably bring back John Pelphrey as his recruiting guru. Just saying
He’s been out of college long enough that today’s players don’t remember his Florida teams , and he’s never dealt with the portal. He’d need to hire staff to hit the ground fast with that stuff
Also, his primary success was tied to one single recruiting class. Combine that with the fact he's been away from college for so long, I don't think he's the slam dunk hire others seem to think. If we land him, would love to be wrong of course.
The incoming freshmen of next year weren’t even in first grade the last time we won a title with Anthony Davis
Yep. Squandered every bit of momentum we once had 10 years ago. Cal wrung us dry of just about everything and will continue when his players and recruits follow him.
Time to drain another program
If you read the article, watch the video etc, no real smoke here, just talking. Disappointing, because I'd love to have him as the next head coach. He's personally my number 2.
And if they win that takes it to the end of April. UK absolutely cannot wait that long.
Why do we have to wait? If Donovan wants the job, he's going to leave. The Bulls will carry on.
Absolutely ok losing a year in order to gain the long term impact his hiring would have. Fingers crossed it is him, Oats, or Hurley. Can’t go wrong with any of them.
He's not going to leave an NBA team in a playoff chase.
They have virtually no shot. Why strikeout at the UK job to just get bludgeoned in the first round and then get fired anyway from Chicago?
that's kind of what I am thinking, I mean everyone believes he's pretty much going to be let go next year barring a miracle run
Because it's the NBA playoffs. It's also kind of bush league to just leave your team that's still in it.
He's got to look the Chicago Bulls in the face and tell them he's abandoning ship during the season." I would lose some respect for a coach that leaves in that situation. Those guys committed to giving it their all to win. He owes them the same.
He got to the finals in 2000 and had the best team in 2014 which ended in the final four.
You're right today's players won't remember his Florida teams. But they will remember a fairly successful NBA coach. That will get their attention.
And NOBODY dealt with the Portal stuff just 3 years ago. It ain't that hard to figure out. One assistant could catch him up on it quickly.
Yes, waiting until April 17th (possibly longer) would put us behind the 8-ball. But he could reach an agreement before then, get an assistant in place who starts identifying portal targets, and contacts them.
He could even tell the Bulls (no conflict of interest) and say I'll coach however far you want me to this last bit of this season, or I'll step aside for an interim coach if you want.
You don't know that be careful what you say on a message could come back to bite you in ass
He went to the FF twice without that "one single recruiting class." 4 FFs with 2 titles at FLORIDA is remarkable success.
Much more success and consistent record than Dan Hurley. Has Uk roots. You Might need a clue.
And how long has he been out of the college game? Have any of the kids we're recruiting heard of him? Hasn't he turned us down before? Has he set the pro game on fire? Check out the above and get back to us with what you've learned.
i haven't kept up with Billy D's record in the pros but he turned out to be a helluva coach and I'm assuming if he came he would be hungry. Would probably be a homerun. You can hire staff to bring recruits initially. Recruiting is something I wouldn't worry about with Donovan.
Omg omg we might not get those high school seniors that we have been doing so well with. You know, the top tier guys that are ready to leave before their first college game. Whatever will we do, Donovan doesn’t have any connections to them.
