Nate Oats possible candidate for UL..Edit (someone’s opinion on who should be the choice)
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This is an article based on Gary Parrish saying "Nate Oats is 100 percent somebody I’d take a look at".
There are no actual candidates at this point for the Louisville job.
There are no actual candidates at this point for the Louisville job.
I would personally give Payne another decade to get things right.
Would be a good hire for them. They will have some very good options when they make the move.
Jmo but the decision is made and they will move on at the end of the season. Kenny is winning a bit more so hopefully he wins a few more to make it tougher on them.
Jmo but the decision is made and they will move on at the end of the season. Kenny is winning a bit more so hopefully he wins a few more to make it tougher on them.
They can want and wish and put anyone on their list. However finding that person that is willing to come to that dumpster fire is another story. and i assure you it wont be a top coach anywhere that will leave his safe place for that place. Maybe a fired coach or a young dimwitted one who doesnt know better.
Any good coach in his right mind would not take that cesspool job.
Oats has built a good program at Bama I think it would take a program like Ky or NC or Kan. Mich or a few others that would draw him away, I would think Bama would give him alot of money to keep him
They would owe Kenny about $1.5 million/year for 4 years for his buyout. I believe Oats buyout to leave Alabama is $10 million. Oats makes about $1 million more annually than Kenny right now. So, they would need to come up with $3 million more per year to get Oats and also the upfront money of Oats buyout. Could be tough!
I looked for news of KP's firing everywhere but couldn't find it. I guess his firing is just assumed at this point.
I bet he's also at least curious about the goings on and moaning right here at Kentucky around Cal. The SEC is becoming the premier basketball conference, and the B10 is flailing, as is the ACC. That leaves the SEC and B12 as the top shelf of the college basketball world.
I’m just going by what I hear around here. Most people in this area (Lansing, Flint, Detroit) are pretty confident that Oats is coming to MSU if and when Izzo hangs it up.
Louisville does have some tradition although not quite blue blood status, but I don’t know that it’s going to be enough for them to pull in Oats or another similarly positioned coach. He’s already at a power conference job that as of this moment is in a much better position than Louisville, and is capable of paying him the same if not more than they will. I could be wrong, but they’re going to be such a total rebuild that I don’t expect them to be able to just name their candidate.
No established coach will go there. They don’t have the $ and too much of a gamble.
I still think Will “strong ass offer” Wade would be their best bet, but (luckily) I don’t see that school taking on anyone with a shady past.
Oats owns the SEC right now. Getting ready to win his 3rd sec championship in 4 years.
I would say he owns cal but everyone owns Cal.
I would say he owns cal but everyone owns Cal.
None. UK can have whomever they want.
I wouldn't bet on that. If u6 ad isn't already in deep pursuit then he is being derelict in his job. Everybody knows what's coming down the pike in March.
He coached in Southfield in HS for a while and just has a lot of close friends in East Lansing
I don’t get those of you who think no one would want that job. That is a prime job from salary and conference perspective and you would be coming to put out the dumpster fire. Certainly easier than following a legend. An excellent coach would have them back quickly.
I hate UL, but is is a premier job with great facilities and in the ACC. It is a promotion from Alabama
I don't see it as a promotion from Alabama myself. Oats is going great at Bama. JMO
Plus if you suck they won’t have the money to fire you
Slightly OT here, but as bad as KP sucks, he’d still have a better record with this current UK team than Cal does! That’s honestly how bad Cal has become as a HC💯.
Doubt it. KP is truly awful.
As for Oats, he would kill it there.
Then we would get beat by UL and the other top sec teams.
There’s a middle ground between “can’t get anybody” and “can get anybody they want”. I think being in a power conference and having some tradition can probably get them a promising coach from a lower level. I don’t think they’ll be too likely to get a guy who’s already making $4.5 million a year while winning power conference titles (Louisville currently pays Payne roughly $3.5 million for comparison).
This is just your cut and paste article. Pure BS.
Tomorrow he could change name of school and candidate and have the same merit.
Tomorrow he could change name of school and candidate and have the same merit.
