Jay Wright
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Not plausible. Cal’s buyout is still way too expensive, and Jay Wright wouldn’t come here anyways.
Hire Santa Claus, he has a better shot at coming than Wright.
Stevens is running the entire Celtics organization. That’s a better gig than any coaching job. I doubt he’ll ever coach again.
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I disagree. If UK calls, any current or former coach would listen!
Not sure about that any more. Tough job for many to handle and a fanbase that wants at title every year. Too much pressure for some.
Jay Wright coaches less than 30 miles from where he was born. Already has a great job at Villanova. Then there is .... According to USA Today, Wright will receive $6.14 million in total pay for the 2020-21 season. That ranks third among active men’s college basketball coaches, and Wright only trails Kentucky’s John Calipari ($8 million) and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski ($7 million). So, he's already making a ton of money. Finally, let's not forget, while UCLA is a lot further away than Lexington, coaching at UCLA is one of the best gigs you can have in college basketball. He turned it down.
Jay Wright will retire as the HC of Villanova whenever he's ready.
Jay Wright will retire as the HC of Villanova whenever he's ready.
Folks would hammer him too when he loses to teams he shouldn't. Or has an 8-10 L season. No coach is exempt from the critical wrath of BBN. 
No offense intended to anyone specifically, but it does speak to the state of the board right now that I truly have no clue if this thread is serious or not.
Folks would hammer him too when he loses to teams he shouldn't. Or has an 8-10 L season. No coach is exempt from the critical wrath of BBN.
Hell, he would seriously be getting bashed this season for having 3 losses already (albeit to good teams).
Jay Wright does not need Kentucky. He is making plenty of money and has won titles at Villanova and may win more. There no reason for him to come to Lexington unless he has family or likes horses.
Sarcastic. People on this board have been calling to fire Cal and hire Jay Wright. Villanova was blown out today by Baylor. Every coach has upside and downside.
Jay Wright rejected us in 2007. He now has two titles. I doubt he wants to put up with the insane expectations of UK fans when he’s built his own program.
He’s also rejected lucrative NBA offers.
He’s a Villanova lifer. Doesn’t want to be anywhere else. If he ever does leave, it’ll likely be to the NBA, not another college job.
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I view him similar to Few at Gonzaga. Both are big fish in small ponds and have built programs. I know Villanova won a title in 85, but that was a while back before Wright.
Cal has no buy out. He’s appointed with a lifetime job. If you make a change he’s just moving offices.
This isn’t accurate…no one expects a title every year, we do expect to be relative and compete against the big boys. We aren’t relative and we aren’t one of the big boys anymore.
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Oats then musselman need to be the first two calls. Wright has nothing left to prove and would basically be cal part deux.
Jay Wright...........Mark Few..................guys that I feel would probably do a pretty good job here.......they aren't coming.
Just about anyone could do better than the current version of Cal......think Pitino if you want to restore our program to the glory days,
Sure, he does. In fact, I believe it’s currently sitting at $54 million …which is way way more than for any other coach ever. We call it a “lifetime” contract because the terms are so outrageously onerous that it’s realistically not financially possible to fire him. But technically we still could if we’re willing to cut him a $54 million check.
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Since we are playing hypothetical games, if somehow Cal was removed, retired, whatever...I think Pitino would be the guy who you could hire as a stop gap quickly, but you are selling your soul to the devil and it ain't happening.
I'm not sold on Oats, Holtmann, Pope or some others yet. Most of the big names wouldn't entertain us just because of current salary, length or service and program ties- think Wright, Few, Drew, Beard (fits both categories) etc. Donovan is highly doubtful....Vogel possible, but who knows.
One who is quickly grabbing my attention is Tommy Lloyd. Yes, he too is unproven but runs an exciting system, is relatively young and spent 20 years under Few....plus he has a pipeline to Europe. Whether it is now or 5 years from now, he is a guy to watch imho.
I'm not sold on Oats, Holtmann, Pope or some others yet. Most of the big names wouldn't entertain us just because of current salary, length or service and program ties- think Wright, Few, Drew, Beard (fits both categories) etc. Donovan is highly doubtful....Vogel possible, but who knows.
One who is quickly grabbing my attention is Tommy Lloyd. Yes, he too is unproven but runs an exciting system, is relatively young and spent 20 years under Few....plus he has a pipeline to Europe. Whether it is now or 5 years from now, he is a guy to watch imho.
hmmmm.... of course they would take the call, out of respect. But Sutton, RP and BCG...were not 1st choice of UK or fans.
Ain't happening! 2 years ago he had a final 4 caliber team. Last year the team sucked. He changed his staff to help fix that, and now he has three outstanding recruiter. No way that gets blown up after 9 games in, even if there wasn't a buy out.
And I disagree with you, the pressure of NON-titles has not affected Cal. (could be effected)
If we successfully run a HOF coach off with a 77 percent winning percentage over 13 years, do we expect other top coaches to want to come here and deal with a hyper bipolar fanbase OR will we have to hire and up and comer and hope?
Like that will be relevant to the National conversation. Run off Cal and there’s going to be a price to pay.
Up and comer seems like the only realistic option. Doesn’t mean that couldn’t lead to an excellent outcome but that gets harder to predict who that got coach will be in five to ten years.
I think people understand that going 9-16 and missing the tournament is the type of season that will get a coach's seat warm at almost any school and will definitely result in a hot seat at Kentucky where a coach is paid $10,000,000.00 per season.
Oats and Messelman, especially Oates, have proven they can both coach and recruit. Give one of them the keys to the car, if they'll come, and we should be fine.
Yeah, I recall that was in 07 that we briefly pursued him ..but he had no interest. We ended up hiring Gillispie after Donovan and Wright both rejected us. Boy, talk about a mark down…
Wright’s even more entrenched as an iconic Philly figure now (having since won a couple titles). If he wasn’t interested back in 07, no way he would be now.
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