Scott Drew passes on UK

[Storrs South]

They’re tracking a flight into LGA now. Is that Rick Pitino’s music?

What's amazing about the flight tracking is it's been noted that athletic departments usually aren't stupid enough to make plane tracking this obvious and they find creative ways to get around it like flying to different airports and using different planes...but Kentucky seems to just not care. Maybe it's different with conference realignment v a head coach search but it's funny how easy this has been track in real time.

 

[NJHusky]

So far UK got 3 coaches a raise. Oates, Drew, Hurley. Who’s next to use Kentucky?

 

[Rich]

PLEASE hire Will Wade. Come on, Kentucky trustees….lean into it!

 

[Rich]

So far UK got 3 coaches a raise. Oates, Drew, Hurley. Who’s next to use Kentucky?

Hurley shouldn’t need fear of losing him to open jobs to get his. He’s a HOF coach with B2B Nattys. Thats damn sure enough.

The school can find the money. Fire half the English department. Hell, fire the president as well for all the good she does.

 

[UCTitleTown]

I don't inderstand why Abdur-Rahim from USF isn't a candidate for this or other jobs. He's a rising star and young. They deserve to get Pitino or Bruce Pearl.

 

[freescooter]

Kim English

I was actually thinking Ed Cooley. Then he can brag that he is really rich!

 

[UCTitleTown]

Hurley shouldn’t need fear of losing him to open jobs to get his. He’s a HOF coach with B2B Nattys. Thats damn sure enough.

The school can find the money. Fire half the English department. Hell, fire the president as well for all the good she does.

I'd drop football before I'd lose Hurley and Geno.

 

[ec33]

Dawn Staley. Now that would be truly hilarious.

Now that would "break the internet" and involve women's basketball.

 

[Rich]

I'd drop football before I'd lose Hurley and Geno.

We have a football team? And here I thought I was watching a AI-enabled test demo for the new EA college football game.

 

[NJHusky]

PLEASE hire Will Wade. Come on, Kentucky trustees….lean into it!

Maybe the coach from Dayton will be willing to try it? It’s not that long of a move and he won a tourney game

 

[uconngb]

I think we've seen enough coaches over the years seemingly say no and then take the giant bag and skip town. I would love to think Hurley is different, and money certainly isn't everything, but giant money might be different than regular money.

And not one of us could blame him

 

[uconngb]

I don't want to want to go into semantics but since I respect you @Kemba15

just my opinion, He doesn't need to release a statement but for some reason, his "no" was not the level of no that nate oats gave. They completely stopped talking about nate oats, even though he would be almost as much a grand slam hire as danny. So there is a difference in the level of 'no'.

Man, I don't like the way I sound right now.

Maybe cuz Nate already got his new deal and Danny hasn’t. Not one person on this board would squander the leverage that Dan Hurley has right now. Not one.

 

[Rich]

Maybe the coach from Dayton will be willing to try it? It’s not that long of a move and he won a tourney game

Can you imagine the intro?

’He coached at Dayton….and won a first round NCAA tournament game!’

Kentucky setting the lowest bar in college basketball would be DELICIOUS.

 

[UConnSwag11]

I'd drop football before I'd lose Hurley and Geno.

This

 

[CL82]

Well then why didn’t u fly the kids to Phoenix last week??

The kids? Heck why didn't he fly us to Phoenix?

 

[HooperScooper]

Well then why didn’t u fly the kids to Phoenix last week??

There are only 12 seats. They wouldn't all fit.

 

[HooperScooper]

So why was Elon Musk up in arms about some college kid tracking his flights and willing to pay to make it stop? Same work Swift if I recall. Shouldn't be legal to be able to do that.

No idea. But it's easy to do. But I don't think you can do it on a flight by flight basis. Have to do it for the plane overall. Don't know why Musk wouldn't do this.

 

[Palatine]

This is (unfortunately) the only correct take on his comments. I understand why he did it, but man it would have been awesome for him to just flat out say "I'm not going anywhere. UConn is the blue blood and the only coaching job for me"

What do you think "no way" means?

 

[gsmooth]

I don't inderstand why Abdur-Rahim from USF isn't a candidate for this or other jobs. He's a rising star and young. They deserve to get Pitino or Bruce Pearl.

That's a good question. Addur-Rahim has done a great job at least for the last 2 years.

 

[dogpause]

I have been thinking that for quite a while. Looking directly at you, UCLA. Your last title was 30 years ago? And most of your titles were actually 50+ years ago, when the size of the tournament was 8 or 16 teams, and only one team permitted per conference? Sorry, the phrase "The King is Dead" is on the tip of my tongue

Long live the King! A monarchy needs to reproduce to maintain it's staus. The same should be true with Blue Bloods. I loved John Wooden, and admire his coaching philosophies, but Wooden was the Blue Blood; not UCLA.

 

[alphasigko]

I will say though that Hurley's contract talks needs to hurry up. Can he even recruit if there is not a certainty that he will be here.

If I am not mistaken, he is still under contract as an extension was signed last year after #5. Is this not correct? If it is, he is free to do what he has to do, pending the upcoming decisions of who is staying and who is leaving.