Really interesting to me that….

[Vek96]

…..Billy Donavan would rather just be drawing paychecks every year as just another Coach on a mediocre or bad NBA team. Seriously, I had to google his name to see if he was still coaching. As it turns out, he’s still coaching the Bulls, who haven’t been relevant since Jordan was there.

Donavan is a CBB Hall of Fame coach.

As an NBA coach, he might as well be in the Witness Protection Program. I guess he just doesn’t care. He’s just collecting checks until he retires. Weird thought process to me.

It can’t be because it’s an easier job/lifestyl, or a money thing. The NBA season much longer.
A lot more travel, and time away from home. It can’t be a money thing either, because Donavan could make much more as a College coach, than the $6 million he’s making as the Bulls coach.

It can’t be a recruiting thing anymore either. Just like the NBA, college players are just going to the highest bidder.

I guess he’s just content to being another coach on one of many mediocre/bad NBA teams.
Really odd.

He was something big as a college coach. He’s been nothing but an average Joe in his 10 years as an NBA coach. That’s probably being kind.

 

[preston-lemasterpiece]

That's why it's weird to me that so many UK fans still want him.

This ain't the "Billy the Kid" we all used to know. He's been coasting for over a decade

 

[Vek96]

That's why it's weird to me that so many UK fans still want him.

This ain't the "Billy the Kid" we all used to know. He's been coasting for over a decade

He really has been coasting.

 

[BlueBomb]

YEAH! They should put his photo on a set of drink coasters. That'll show him.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

That tells you just how much more stress-free it is coaching in the NBA (especially when you don't need the salary at this point). No recruiting, no transfer portal, and you get to spend the same as the 29 other teams.

 

[BlueBlood96Cat]

I can see why he would do what he’s doing. Coasting with the bulls and collecting a check is much much easier than coaching the University of Kentucky.


He has plenty of money. Doesnt have to recruit. Basically has to hop on a jet and coach grown men. Kentucky is 365 never stops. Pressure is so much bigger here.

If I won two national titles at Florida idk if I would want to come back to college. His legacy is cemented. He accomplished a lot early. Probably enjoys the lifestyle of a NBA coach. Why risk failing at Kentucky and have us Bennys wanting to fire him after his first loss when you have two national championships at Florida.

Even tho I don’t like Florida I can’t say that wasn’t a legendary time for their program football and basketball. Why put any kind of stain on that might be his thought.




Or he could really want the job and we didn’t offer lol.

 

[OliverSimmonsTwinBrother]

That tells you just how much more stress-free it is coaching in the NBA (especially when you don't need the salary at this point). No recruiting, no transfer portal, and you get to spend the same as the 29 other teams.

Yep. This. Also he won two championships at the college level so he doesn't really have anything left to prove.