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Post by Life's too short. on Mar 31, 2009 16:12:31 GMT -5
Dominoes are starting to fall in several schools' searches for basketball coaches. By all indications, they are not falling Georgia's way. Kentucky's late entry into the competition for candidates -- it fired Billy Gillispie this past Friday -- appears to have cast a Big Blue shadow on the proceedings. Numerous reports Monday had the Wildcats zeroing in on Memphis coach John Calipari in a deal that might be the richest college basketball has ever seen. If true -- and Memphis and Lexington media outlets are both saying it's an all-but-done deal -- that creates yet another formidable competitor for Georgia in the coaching marketplace. The Tigers reportedly were paying Calipari about $3 million per season. The Bulldogs are believed to have narrowed their focus on Missouri's Mike Anderson and Oklahoma's Jeff Capel. But neither Georgia nor those coaches' current employers will say whether the parties have met or even gotten permission to do so.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Post by USCGamecocks on Mar 31, 2009 16:29:33 GMT -5
I don't know if either of them would want to coach there. You're coaching for a school that doesn't give a rats ass about basketball with shitty facilities. Seems like a step down from what they are doing now.
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Post by bigdawgs on Mar 31, 2009 16:37:23 GMT -5
Ah, cocky you are right. But you omitted one thing. It is a school with lots of $$$$$. And for someone looking for a challenge, well, it is right in front of them.
Besides, the new practice facility is state of the art. ;D
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Post by NCBulldawg on Mar 31, 2009 16:44:32 GMT -5
And $2.5 million will sway someone to want to move from wherever they are to Athens, GA, which you know very well is a fine place to be.
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Post by eloveku on Mar 31, 2009 16:46:50 GMT -5
C'mon Mike, you know you wanna coach there.....
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Post by tophb21 on Mar 31, 2009 20:02:53 GMT -5
That's a lot of cash and Capel is tight with his family and this would get him closer to them in Charlotte, but it would be a step down from where he's at right now.
Money talks though.
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Post by MIZ-SIU on Mar 31, 2009 20:06:24 GMT -5
C'mon Mike, you know you wanna coach there.....
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Post by NCBulldawg on Mar 31, 2009 20:09:50 GMT -5
He isn't going anywhere as it looks like Mizzou inked the deal with Coach. Damn. Just damn.
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Post by MIZ-SIU on Mar 31, 2009 20:12:51 GMT -5
He isn't going anywhere as it looks like Mizzou inked the deal with Coach. Damn. Just damn.
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Post by tophb21 on Mar 31, 2009 20:38:30 GMT -5
He isn't going anywhere as it looks like Mizzou inked the deal with Coach. Damn. Just damn. Get a Brinks truck and head to Norman, Ok, if that doesn't work, go to Stillwater and see if Travis Ford will take the loot. If that doesn't work, circle back through the midwest and stop at Butler to talk with Xavier's Sean Miller and Butler's Brad Stevens. Otherwise, just give up and realize that you're just a football school. ;D Trust me, PSU doesn't even try in hoops any more, even though they are in the NIT semi's.
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Post by bigdawgs on Mar 31, 2009 20:41:51 GMT -5
Toph, Can't quit. Realize it is a steep climb, but you can never just give up. Other football schools seem to make it happen. No reason why a state university in a state with so much highschool talent can't at least be respectable. No excuse for it and I give Damon Evans credit for at least trying to do something.
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Post by tophb21 on Mar 31, 2009 20:45:32 GMT -5
Toph, Can't quit. Realize it is a steep climb, but you can never just give up. Other football schools seem to make it happen. No reason why a state university in a state with so much highschool talent can't at least be respectable. No excuse for it and I give Damon Evans credit for at least trying to do something. BD, I completely agree with you. I was being more fecisious than anything. Although, PSU doesn't put much effort in hoops and that has already preplexed me. They have above average facilities with an arena that seats over 15K and they are located within 5 hours of an absolute ton of talent. Granted there are a ton of hoops schools within that radius, but one would think that they could get at least one or two players per year.
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Post by maestrojpl on Mar 31, 2009 21:06:03 GMT -5
Neither of these guys should go to UGA. Makes no sense at all. I understand Calipari, but this is without a doubt a lateral move if not a step backwards for both of them.
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Post by scapegoat on Aug 21, 2009 15:04:34 GMT -5
Capel might stay at OU for the long haul. Never saw that coming in the begining but it is starting to look like it wouldn't be a bad idea.
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Post by KU62 on Aug 24, 2009 14:41:16 GMT -5
Ah, cocky you are right. But you omitted one thing. It is a school with lots of $$$$$. And for someone looking for a challenge, well, it is right in front of them. Besides, the new practice facility is state of the art. ;D Calling a job in the SEC a "challenge" is like . . . ONM
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Post by KU62 on Aug 24, 2009 14:46:58 GMT -5
I was being more fecisious than anything. You seem facetiously overboard with the sarcasm today.
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