Negotiations might have slowed with the death of the young man on UK's team.
One of their players was in a fatal car crash, I think we can be patient with KY right now.
We are viewing this with hearts, not our heads... Chris Mack left Xavier for Louisville and Chris Holtmann left Butler for Ohio State. I know they are head coaches, but those moves make sense (even w/o looking at money). The programs they left are good programs in a top tier conference, and they still left.
No it means OA's agent wants to see if kentucky out bids illinois.
Look at College baseball..
The question is what outcome is used to measure this move from a business perspective? Is the question which place has had more success in the past and is more likely to have success in the future? Then it's KY in a landslide. If OA just wants to be at a more successful program where he can easily pull in #1 recruiting classes, then he goes there. Is the question which is better for him to obtain a high-level HC job? If so, there's a good argument for IL over KY. We're not operating blind here -- we have data showing exactly what an extended run of success at KY did for OA specifically. It didn't result in a high-level HC job. Whereas the operable data we have specific to IL and OA is that a very short run of success radically improved his career prospects. All in all I think the business-side of this just depends on what he wants to get out of the position (besides money, if we assume those are the same).
I tend to agree with a lot of that, but what Illinois assistant coaches have landed high profile head coaching jobs? That's where the downfall of your theory lies. Billy Gillispie got the UTEP job and that is the only one I can really think of.
Why, in God's name, would any of Weber's or Groce's assistants have landed a plum job?
I didn't think I limited it to them...
I don't think that's safe at all. We're talking about a kid dying. Maybe UI coaches and admin have enough common sense and tact to maybe not rush things right now.
It could come down to where he is most fulfilled and enjoys coming to work every day.....(I can't believe I said that..?
Why would character be in question? Because assistants have been offered significantly more money at blue blood opportunities?
Or, where his wife prefers to be.It could come down to where he is most fulfilled and enjoys coming to work every day.....(I can't believe I said that..?
It’s the nature of the sport.
Seriously. Even if OA has signed a deal with either us or UK it'd be wildly tacky for that info to come out right now. Our supposed insiders seem fairly confident. We'll see how it plays out, but it's gonna take a little more time than it normally would.
I understand your concern, but I think you undersell the understanding and reasoning abilities of players and parents and high school/AAU coaches. They know it's a business. This is a potential problem for every single kid weighing their options. Ultimately the head coach has to be the anchor and the guy keeping everyone on the same page.
Because these are teenagers who put their trust in "These" coaches and not the other ones from the other schools and within a week or so see it all possibly being completely altered. They don't care about or probably can't process what's going on like a mature adult. They could see it just like I said a major, unexpected, unwanted, stressful situation that they did not sign up for!!! Put yourself in their shoes, they spent a long time to make the biggest decision of their lives and consulted with a lot of close friends and adults to come to this decision and then "BOOM" it all might change.
Exactly, and as long as the head coach is there then the system and culture they were attracted to remains.
