Vic Schaefer to Texas

[southie]

Let's be real folks. If Vic wasn't from Texas and had his parents living in Texas, he wouldn't have left for the Texas job. Yes, Texas had to give him a raise to make the move, but this really wasn't about MSU not willing to pay him his worth. Texas was fortunate this worked out, and so quickly.

 

[PoppaBear]

Mississippi State was willing to match/exceed what Texas offered.

Austin has an international airport and an interstate running through it. That would have to make recruiting visits much easier for prospective student athletes.

Plus it's Austin. Really cool town.

 

[PGBully]

Austin has an international airport and an interstate running through it. That would have to make recruiting visits much easier for prospective student athletes.

Plus it's Austin. Really cool town.

Don’t know how we ever got kids from Texas, Detroit, DC, and Australia without an international airport and interstate.

 

[bballnut90]

I know that some coaches in similar situation to Vic will negotiate contracts for their assistants before they accept. No coach wants to go to a situation where they make a ton and the AD tells him the assistants get peanuts. They will also agree on miscellaneous staff and recruiting allowances

I'd imagine he would but who knows. He mentioned that he wasn't going to take the Mississippi State job if she wasn't coming with him so I wouldn't be surprised if they were a package deal.

 

[HuskylnSC]

I'd imagine he would but who knows. He mentioned that he wasn't going to take the Mississippi State job if she wasn't coming with him so I wouldn't be surprised if they were a package deal.

Yeah, if you were the AD you would want him to hit the ground running for recruits and not running for assistants.

 

[SimpleDawg]

Matthew Mitchell just said no.

Someone on our board just reported. (not sure if he posts here, my guess is yes)

 

[PoppaBear]

Don’t know how we ever got kids from Texas, Detroit, DC, and Australia without an international airport and interstate.

Did you get those quality of players before you hired a high quality coach?

 

[Argonaut]

 

[ScottCT]

I know of a coach who is getting 1.1 million...... I can forward her name to your AD if you wish.

You are really trying hard huh? I wouldn't take her for free.

 

[SimpleDawg]

I don't understand those "Matthew Mitchell for next coach" Mississippi State fans. I doubt UConn fans would want a successor of the equivalent of Mitchell for their coach........ after Geno.

 

[PGBully]

Did you get those quality of players before you hired a high quality coach?

Well before UCONN hired a high quality coach they had 1 winning season in their history, whereas we were making the tournament before I’d even heard of Vic. Is that because Starkville, MS was easier to get talent to than it was to get it to Storrs, CT, before we each hired quality coaches? I’m just using your logic to raise a counter question.

 

[PGBully]

Did you get those quality of players before you hired a high quality coach?

Mississippi State had the #1 pick in the WNBA in 2003 and the #2 pick in 2005.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Anyone remember when @JordyG said there was another shoe to drop in the Karen got fired thread?

I didn't think it was a man's shoe!

 

[MilfordHusky]

This is so weird to me because Vic is an Aggie through and through. I guess he really wanted to get back home. He just bought some land and was building a house outside of Starkville. He's said before that he grew up hating Texas (the school not the state).

So, does Vic bolt for A&M when Gary Blair retires?

 

[Plebe]

So, does Vic bolt for A&M when Gary Blair retires?

I was just thinking, maybe he's running a long Aggie con on UT.

Blair suddenly announces his retirement in late October 2020, and Vic bolts.

 

[chrissaran]

Never saw it coming.Stunned. Why leave all that he has built at MSU?

 

[MilfordHusky]

You never know. I didn't think Vic was attainable. MSU can offer any coach $1.6 million or more. Graves barely bumped up to $700k after last season's Final Four. Doesn't hurt to express interest and let the dominoes fall where they may.

How does one of the poorest States in the nation pay a WBB coach $2M per year? I can understand football, but women's hoops?

 

[southie]

How does one of the poorest States in the nation pay a WBB coach $2M per year? I can understand football, but women's hoops?

It's not about the State; it's about the athletic conference. With equal revenue sharing, all schools in the SEC are raking in the same amount from TV revenue. Money is huge. MSU knows what they can afford; it's a lot more than PAC 12 schools not named Stanford.

 

[hoopsfan22]

Vic's kind of old to be starting over isn't he?

 

[MilfordHusky]

Wonder how many of Vic's players at Mississippi State transfer over to Texas?

As of now, they may have to sit out a year--if there is a season.

 

[southie]

I was just thinking, maybe he's running a long Aggie con on UT.

Blair suddenly announces his retirement in late October 2020, and Vic bolts.

Texas had to pay MSU a $1.25 million buyout to obtain Vic. Texas will do the same in Vic's new contract. And, probably a provision that it will cost double if he tries to leave for Texas A&M.

 

[southie]

Vic's kind of old to be starting over isn't he?

Vic is 59. Karen Aston is 55.

 

[j66kicker]

Ive rode by that thing years ago...... it may be nice on the inside.... but the outside is a different story.... similar in exterior plainness as the lesser UT (Knoxville)

Yeah it looked like an oil storage tank that's been stucco'd over & painted. Not even orange...

 

[MilfordHusky]

Let's be real folks. If Vic wasn't from Texas and had his parents living in Texas, he wouldn't have left for the Texas job. Yes, Texas had to give him a raise to make the move, but this really wasn't about MSU not willing to pay him his worth. Texas was fortunate this worked out, and so quickly.

I sure hope there isn't a WBB team in Montella, Italy!

 

[SECbbfan24]

I don't understand those "Matthew Mitchell for next coach" Mississippi State fans. I doubt UConn fans would want a successor of the equivalent of Mitchell for their coach........ after Geno.

He isn't a bad coach but is not what MSU is looking for if they want to stay or continue at the level they are on. My take it they try to go after a big HC on the national level and if they can't get them they try to hire J. Harris. That is what I am hearing, unless Harris doesn't want the job. Harris stated she would not be opposed to being a HC if its the right situation. Considering she also basically built and recruited that entire roster in its current shape, its almost as good as it gets for her.