$3.9 million compensation this season and $8.4-ish buyout fwiw. Hard for me to believe he’d prefer the U. Texas gig (if it opened up) over a job like UNC or IU, but who knows?
after dinner, will let you know
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Kurt says its Beard... so he has to be #1 on any of our lists.
But juuussst in case its not. I think McCasland and McCollum should be the other two top candidates, in that order. And that's assuming May signing his UM extension means he's out.
Beard
McCasland
McCollum
If its one of those coaches, we probably have our guy for the next decade or so. And it'll be the best basketball we've consistently seen since the early 90s.
Why not Otzenberger? Guessing you're ruling him out, but I think he's the best fit for OE/DE, age, experience and no baggage I'm aware of. I'm thinking if Goodman is pushing him so much, it's with TJO's blessing. If he didn't want Goodman saying that, it would stop w a phone call and he'd be saying he's hearing through channels he wouldn't come to IU.
For sure just assuming he wouldn't take it. He'd be a monster at IU. Haven't really looked at his current contract...if he's "allowing" Goodman to push it...could be that he's just trying to get a bigger/better deal at ISU out of it. Everything I've read is that he's very entrenched at ISU. But would love it if it happened.
Supposedly has gotten 2 extensions in the last year or so, and the last one actually lowered his buyout, so I think a 3rd raise seems unlikely. He may be entrenched at ISU, but I think that's likely overblown. I've heard that said cause his wife "is from there". She's not, she's an Aussie and played vball there, and I think he's from WI. Anyway, sounds more realistic than originally thought and certainly a better fit than some of the others in terms of age and experience. Think he's still pretty young.
I would replace Beard with TJ Otzelberger on your list and I like the other two as well (not opposed to slipping Lloyd in after TJ though).
I see TJ as a safer, and better, alternative to Beard. His teams play tough defense, a better offense and it seems he could handle the position.
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