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Message: [QUOTE="TJT, post: 2677067, member: 8605"] Dooley's deal with ECU wasn't finalized until Wednesday morning. That was also the time URI was letting candidates know that they had not been chosen for the position. Coincidence? FWIW, Lebo is reported to have been only making 500k at ECU last year. It is thought Dooley will make more. Given URI paid its coach last year double what ECU did, I can't imagine the ECU job is now suddenly going to double what URI pays. It certainly looks to me like Dooley waited until he was out of the running at Rhode Island before putting ink to a contract with ECU. The local newspaper for FGCU seems to back up this thinking: [INDENT][I]Still, interest in Dooley was big as it had been through most of his FGCU tenure. He was on the list of most speculators concerning the current Rhode Island opening. In fact, some sources said Dave Hart, the former ECU athletic director brought in solely for the ECU men's basketball hire, waited on Dooley to see if he could get the more lucrative Rhode Island job. If true, he apparently could not. [/I][/INDENT] Naples News Link: [URL='https://www.naplesnews.com/story/sports/college/fgcu/2018/04/03/college-basketball-fgcu-mens-coach-joe-dooley-reportedly-takes-east-carolina-job/482743002/']College basketball: FGCU men's coach Joe Dooley reportedly takes East Carolina job[/URL] [/QUOTE]