re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)

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Just makes me appreciate Byrne more. Cotdamn, that's texas am stupidity. More money than brains...smh

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And frick them in all of this paying 8 million a year to not only take the underwhelming coach from Kentucky, but also opening up a coaching search with our guy squarely in the crosshairs

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They just assume anybody will want the job

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In this particular case he'd have to want it and they'd have to be willing to put down $25+ million up front between his buyout and first year salary for him and his staff. That's a much, much tougher financial pill to swallow than paying Cal $33 million over several years.

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That's not usually how it works unless UK voluntarily said scram, which I highly doubt even though they wanted him gone. Usually the buyout is to protect both sides. Much like the situation with Oats. If he were to leave voluntarily for UK, Uk would have to pay us 18 million to buy his contract out.

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But it this case, it is true. Calipari had no buyout if he left. Similar to Saban’s contract had that ever occurred.

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Highly highly doubt that. He has several daughters still in school, youngest is in middle school and the oldest is at UA. Not the time to uproot them.

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This is also a factor. There is a slight chance UK’s AD can sell him but Byrne forecasted the market and generously compensated him before it even opened

It’s more that Billy Donovan has been out of the college game for a decade and the game has changed a great deal. We haven’t seen Billy Donovan deal with portal/NiL and his willingness to deal with that. Hes won at the college level already.

He may very well want out of Chicago because they are perpetually spinning their wheels in mediocrity. He left college to go coach Durant and Westbrook and now he has Zach Levine and injured Lonzo Ball. Not great Bob.

All that being said…I highly doubt Donovan would have any issues(especially at Kentucky) with NiL/transfers. But Drew is a known entity and seems to be bought in to being a college coach. Might be as simple as that.

UK. AD has history with Scott Drew.

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We make a hard tournament look easy," Hurley said

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Man I’m ready for this guy to get taken down a peg. In humiliating fashion would be nice. He is a world class prick. Unfortunately I don’t think Purdue has the dudes outside of Edey to do it.

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If Nate can do this with this group they better watch out when we have 3 studs or so.

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So far we have had the attitude 3 times, the experience 2 times, and the personnel 1 time, just never more than 2 of the 3 at once. Eventually I think the stars will align and we will have all 3 at once. That team will get taken down by a 9 seed in the second round. Then the inexperienced group of freshmen and transfers that replaces that team will win a title.

I'd be shocked if we lost Nate due to money. I don't think that will happen. I also don't think the arena thing matters to him much at all as long as we continue committing all the resources he requests to NIL and basketball budget (which we have and he is very happy with). Would he have the leverage to basically demand firm arena stuff? Probably. Would we give it to him? I think we'd do as much as we could.

The concern would be that Nate wants to go to the pinnacle of college basketball and dominate the sport for a decade. If he decides that is what he wants to do, then there isn't much we can do to respond. I think that he really likes the setup at Alabama and feels like he's done all the hard work to set the foundation and is at a point and is now at a point to take the ultimate step. But it would be insane to just brush off Kentucky if they come at him with the full court press. I don't think it's anywhere near an automatic that he'd leave, but any young, hungry basketball coach would be intrigued by that.

We’re going to see a lot more programs adopt Nate Oats analytics driven style. Having the ability to get top talent every single year is difference in Alabama/UK.

He’s ahead of the curve right now and that’s why we can bring in players who want to play in his system. What happens when half the league is running the same system in 4-5 years? You’re going to want the advantages to get the best players.