Brad Stevens

#251
#251
LWSVOL said:
would take 2.5 to 3 million which we will not pay for him. he is worth it, but we won't go higher than what Dooley makes
Click to expand...

I don't imagine a public outcry saying that we like basketball and want to open the checkbook for a new coach will help much, will it? And when I say "much," I mean "at all."
 
#253
#253
Incipient said:
I don't imagine a public outcry saying that we like basketball and want to open the checkbook for a new coach will help much, will it? And when I say "much," I mean "at all."
Click to expand...

Anyone else recall Kiffin's comments to a recruit (IIRC) shortly after leaving, something along the lines of, "Tennessee isn't serious about winning."?

Maybe even Satan tells the truth, sometimes.

P.S. my desire for his untimely death remains as strong as ever.
Posted via VolNation Mobile
 
#254
#254
Tenacious D said:
Anyone else recall Kiffin's comments to a recruit (IIRC) shortly after leaving, something along the lines of, "Tennessee isn't serious about winning."?

Maybe even Satan tells the truth, sometimes.

P.S. my desire for his untimely death remains as strong as ever.
Posted via VolNation Mobile
Click to expand...


Not to derail the thread, BUT

My opinion would be that he was talking about how the compliance people were all up in his grill about what he couldn't do.

JMO
 
#255
#255
81Bubbavol said:
Not to derail the thread, BUT

My opinion would be that he was talking about how the compliance people were all up in his grill about what he couldn't do.

JMO
Click to expand...

Can't argue against it - but he could have been alluding to a larger, more systemic problem.
Posted via VolNation Mobile
 
#256
#256
why spend million$$$ to upgrade the arena/Pratt and hire a dollar general coach ... surely they won't low ball this hire ....
 
#261
#261
LWSVOL said:
would take 2.5 to 3 million which we will not pay for him. he is worth it, but we won't go higher than what Dooley makes
Click to expand...

I like Dooley, but he has a career losing record. He should be burning incense to his ancestors every morning that he has a job like Tennessee. If we're really using his salary as a ceiling for what we would pay a basketball coach, then we should just dynamite the Pratt Pavilion. Idiocy.
Posted via VolNation Mobile
 
#262
#262
We have a $100m budget. Why do you not call Stevens and offer him $4 million and make him say no?
Posted via VolNation Mobile
 
#263
#263
Vercingetorix said:
We have a $100m budget. Why do you not call Stevens and offer him $4 million and make him say no?
Posted via VolNation Mobile
Click to expand...

Why Bother? You think the hottest name coaching is gonna even give us a look? Stevens will remain at Butler till a UNC or Indiana, etc. kinda job opens up. He will say no right after our brilliant AD says hello to him.
 
#264
#264
BoseefusTheVol said:
Why Bother? You think the hottest name coaching is gonna even give us a look? Stevens will remain at Butler till a UNC or Indiana, etc. kinda job opens up. He will say no right after our brilliant AD says hello to him.
Click to expand...

You give it a shot because four or five million dollars a year is an intensely huge amount of money, and something that only a handful of schools in the country can even think about paying, and it's an amount of money that anybody would have to swallow hard before he turned down. It's a Nick Saban situation. If you buy Brad Stevens, you immediately throw away the Pearl baggage forever. If I were the AD, I would call Stevens until he told me to shut up and take my enormous five million dollar paycheck elsewhere.

UT is geting out from underneath Pearl relatively cheap, financially. (Compared to, say, Paul Hewitt. Or even Phil Fulmer.) We need to spend extravagantly on a coach. Make the best ones turn down millions before you settle.
 
#265
#265
Vercingetorix said:
You give it a shot because four or five million dollars a year is an intensely huge amount of money, and something that only a handful of schools in the country can even think about paying, and it's an amount of money that anybody would have to swallow hard before he turned down. It's a Nick Saban situation. If you buy Brad Stevens, you immediately throw away the Pearl baggage forever. If I were the AD, I would call Stevens until he told me to shut up and take my enormous five million dollar paycheck elsewhere.

UT is geting out from underneath Pearl relatively cheap, financially. (Compared to, say, Paul Hewitt. Or even Phil Fulmer.) We need to spend extravagantly on a coach. Make the best ones turn down millions before you settle.
Click to expand...

I'd wet my pants if we can get Stevens. It'll prove that Tennessee wants to join the big boys of college bb. But we seriously have 3 things going against us. 1) Tennessee is a historically mediocre bb program. 2) Mike Hamilton. 3) Sadly, Head Coach of Tennessee bball is not a destination job. Stevens is at a point right now where he can wait for the job that he wants, and Tennessee ain't it.
 
#266
#266
BoseefusTheVol said:
I'd wet my pants if we can get Stevens. It'll prove that Tennessee wants to join the big boys of college bb. But we seriously have 3 things going against us. 1) Tennessee is a historically mediocre bb program. 2) Mike Hamilton. 3) Sadly, Head Coach of Tennessee bball is not a destination job. Stevens is at a point right now where he can wait for the job that he wants, and Tennessee ain't it.
Click to expand...

I agree with all of that. All I have to say in rebuttal is FOUR MILLION DOLLARS. That's a lot of money to say no to. And we have it. You go get the guy you want, and you make it pretty clear that money is no object. Anything that pays four million dollars a year is a destination job.

It's stupid to spend the money on facilities that we have and then go cheap on a coach. But watch us.
 
Last edited:
#267
#267
Vercingetorix said:
I agree with all of that. All I have to say in rebuttal is FOUR MILLION DOLLARS. That's a lot of money to say no to. And we have it. You go get the guy you want, and you make it pretty clear that money is no object. Anything that pays four million dollars a year is a destination job.

It's stupid to spend the money on facilities that we have and then go cheap on a coach. But watch us.
Click to expand...

We'll probably throw a large amount of cash at some big names. Get turned down. And go cheap out of necessity. Hope we get lucky like we did with Pearl.
 
#268
#268
Vercingetorix said:
I agree with all of that. All I have to say in rebuttal is FOUR MILLION DOLLARS. That's a lot of money to say no to. And we have it. You go get the guy you want, and you make it pretty clear that money is no object. Anything that pays four million dollars a year is a destination job.

It's stupid to spend the money on facilities that we have and then go cheap on a coach. But watch us.
Click to expand...

You never know if the hot chick will go out with you until you ask her out.

Tennessee has been a bargain basement shopper when it comes to coaches and I've never understood it. Spend tons of money on facilities, go cheap on the guys that can make you win. The Lane Kiffin staff was the exception. Although it didn't turn out well, the fact that we were paying so much money for a staff excited me because it felt like we were finally serious about playing with the big boys.

That was football, though. We're going to see if Tennessee is of the same mindset when it comes to basketball. I'm afraid they're going to use Dooley's salary as some sort of imaginary cap. Too many fans, and I'm assuming those in power as well, perceive us as a football first school.
 
#271
#271
Godfatha said:
You never know if the hot chick will go out with you until you ask her out.

Tennessee has been a bargain basement shopper when it comes to coaches and I've never understood it. Spend tons of money on facilities, go cheap on the guys that can make you win. The Lane Kiffin staff was the exception. Although it didn't turn out well, the fact that we were paying so much money for a staff excited me because it felt like we were finally serious about playing with the big boys.

That was football, though. We're going to see if Tennessee is of the same mindset when it comes to basketball. I'm afraid they're going to use Dooley's salary as some sort of imaginary cap. Too many fans, and I'm assuming those in power as well, perceive us as a football first school.
Click to expand...

That would be because UT is a football first school....Absolutely no doubt or question about it...Football pays the bills at Tennessee....Period
 
#272
#272
Vercingetorix said:
I like Dooley, but he has a career losing record. He should be burning incense to his ancestors every morning that he has a job like Tennessee. If we're really using his salary as a ceiling for what we would pay a basketball coach, then we should just dynamite the Pratt Pavilion. Idiocy.
Posted via VolNation Mobile
Click to expand...

Yup.

The thought process of using dooleys salary as the barometer of ut salaries is insane. If joe Torre announced tomorrow he wants to coach the ut baseball team next year then you figure out how to pay him what it will take.
Posted via VolNation Mobile
 
#275
#275
that was in response to the poster above me who would approve of paying a guy whatever it takes to coach a sport that loses money.
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top