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Louisville Jeff Walz to Tennessee?

MilfordHusky said:
Cam, thanks! One addition and one question. I believe that Jeff's contract also includes incentives for performance that run to $200K per year or more. Do you know the terms of the buyout provision?
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In an article I've read in the past day, I forget where, pretty sure I saw that Walz buyout was 1.4M, and Hollys is 700k
 
Boxerpups4me said:
Wouldnt you guys/gals welcome this hire as it would pertain to the uconn tenn renewed series?
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I don't think we even have any interest in the "renewed series", which amounts to UConn having its arm twisted by the Naismith HOF to do a 2-year charity gig for Pat's foundation. AFAIC Tennessee can buzz off forever.
 
Walz would be an idiot to leave what he's built at Louisville and jump into that dumpster fire of a program.

I'm envisioning Asia Durr & Sam Fuehring - and especially their underclass teammates - getting swamped with "Walz to TN" questions in the Louisville version of those informal hallway after-practice cell phone camera interviews. Jeff needs to be telling his team right now, "I'm here for the long haul. Don't listen to this crap - it's just noise." He needs to promise them, and he needs to mean it. I don't even know if that would be enough to quiet the seeds of doubt his players must have right now at this most critical time. If he doesn't mean it then he deserves what he gets.
 
Welcome to the world of agents.

Agent to UT: You know, Waltz might be available.
UT to Agent: What $$$ are we talking about?
Agent to L'ville: UT is interested in Waltz. You can keep him, but it will cost you.
L'ville to Agent: He just got a new deal. We expect him to honor the contract.
L'ville to reporter: Not looking good with keeping Waltz.

Meanwhile, Waltz is going, "What just happened?"
 
If Tennessee is looking to hire someone that is still coaching, they don't have much incentive to announce Warlick's firing.

They can probably do what legwork they need to do informally and then make a decision based on feedback whether moving on is the right move or not.

I'm not sure what earthy difference firing her now makes to the men's team's attention, but might let the AD make the trip in peace.
 
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Fulmer probably has as good an idea as anyone how actually important it is to the Tennessee fan base as a whole to be great at WBB.

So it will be interesting to see what he does here in terms of timing and in terms of money if and when Warlick is fired.

Left to his druthers he might rather spend money on supporting his new football hire and helping him draw up plans on how to do dirt.
 
j66kicker said:
Walz would be an idiot to leave what he's built at Louisville and jump into that dumpster fire of a program.

I'm envisioning Asia Durr & Sam Fuehring - and especially their underclass teammates - getting swamped with "Walz to TN" questions in the Louisville version of those informal hallway after-practice cell phone camera interviews. Jeff needs to be telling his team right now, "I'm here for the long haul. Don't listen to this crap - it's just noise." He needs to promise them, and he needs to mean it. I don't even know if that would be enough to quiet the seeds of doubt his players must have right now at this most critical time. If he doesn't mean it then he deserves what he gets.
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I'm not sure how well that works anymore. There's a fairly long list of coaches that have done that, perhaps most notably Brian Kelly when he left Cincinnati, and then left anyway a few days later. Several coaches, including our own Randy Edsall, didn't even say goodbye to their former team, which is unforgivable IMO.
 
HopJim said:
Not sure what is the truth, but am aware of several cases at other schools where a "source" associated with a competitor started the "rumor" to disrupt one or both school's programs.
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So you're predicting someone will blame Geno and UConn for the Walz rumors? ;)
 
ScarlettB said:
In an interesting (and maybe related) development, Louisville assistant coach Samantha Williams was just named the new Head Coach at Eastern Kentucky University.
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Interesting indeed....
 
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ScarlettB said:
In an interesting (and maybe related) development, Louisville assistant coach Samantha Williams was just named the new Head Coach at Eastern Kentucky University.
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Samantha is good people. She made some call on behalf of my Daughter to coaches she knew when she was recruiting for Duke. Wish her well!
 
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Would the coach of a highly visible "elite" school be "fired" if the school had not already been assured that they had a replacement?
I know there is always the scenario where the coach is offered the new job only to have his current school sweeten the deal and they remain in that job.
 
PacoBlaze said:
Would the coach of a highly visible "elite" school be "fired" if the school had not already been assured that they had a replacement?
I know there is always the scenario where the coach is offered the new job only to have his current school sweeten the deal and they remain in that job.
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YES, this happens regularly in sports.
 
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Hayven said:
I don’t remember ever hearing about him leaving for another school, prior this year...so what does he mean by this happens every year?
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I found that odd too. Is it just me, or did he seem a little defensive and almost saying too much?
 
Hayven said:
I don’t remember ever hearing about him leaving for another school, prior this year...so what does he mean by this happens every year?
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Just what he says every year Jeff's name is linked to a coaching job ALWAYS resulting in a raise for him to stay at Louisville. Louisville is either tired of it or used to it by now.
 
MSUFan2003 said:
I found that odd too. Is it just me, or did he seem a little defensive and almost saying too much?
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In my considered opinion, he looked like he was lying. Good liars will fill in seemingly relevant but actually non-responsive details, which is exactly what he did. "This happens every year." "I just saw Sam in the hallway and she and I were joking..." etc.

Walz didn't deny it, which means he wants it. If he didn't, and he wanted to maximize his team's focus this week, he would have just said fake news, I plan to stay at Louisville and am not interested in that job were it to become available. Which means he cares more about his (potential) future job than his current one.
 
AT the end of the day its a great opportunity for him. Probably the only school he could go to with great personnel (maybe better than LV) and get more money and have all that tradition to recruit to.

imho if its true he'd be foolish not to take the job.
 
I tend to agree he was a guy latching on to things to talk about other than his interest in the Tennessee job.
 
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