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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4262798, member: 199"] Well - not often do women's basketball coaches get bought out from comparable teams - most ADs in the women's game are hiring a coach from a lesser schools or are hiring another team's assistant coach - there are not a lot of bidding wars for services. ASU is hiring to replace a well respected fairly successful P5 coach - unless they raided another successful P5 teams coach, they were offering a promotion for whoever they hired, and as such there was probably minimal competition for that coach and the coach would get a big pay rise without matching what the previous coach was being paid at the end of their tenure. ASU wasn't looking to hire Dawn Staley or another established winning P5 coach, and the pool of unemployed quality coaches is basically zero. Hiring a mid major coach, or a DII or DIII coach or someone's assistant isn't going to coast that much. Not sure what happened at Georgia and it sounded as if UCF upped the ante, so it is possible they forced GA to pay more for their new coach than they did for Taylor but UCF is in a unique position because they are headed to a P5 conference - most mid-majors just wave goodby to departing women's coaches when a P5 comes calling. Every year their are a few coaches being bought in the women's game and the rest are being hired as a promotion from assistant or from a lesser level of competition. Same happens for other sports as well - we see the headlines for the big football hires, but most of the openings are probably filled like WCBB. [/QUOTE]

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