re: Dan Hurley has to be the choice for UK right?

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ETA: for the “he’s already at a blue blood” crowd … Roy Williams went from Kansas to UNC

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Williams is from North Carolina, graduated from UNC, and began his coaching career at UNC where he coached for 20 years before taking the HC job at Kansas. I think it is safe to say there were significant ties that made the UNC job attractive to him beyond a large sum of money.

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Brian Kelly from Notre Dame to lsu

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That was solely because he felt he could not win a National Championship at Notre Dame with the recruiting restrictions in place relative to the powerhouse public schools...Alabama, Ohio State, LSU, Georgia, etc.

In your scenario Hurley would be leaving a place where he has already won a national championship and may win another tonight to go to a university with which he has zero ties. It would take the most ridiculously lucrative and one-sided contract in this history of college basketball...maybe all of college sports...to even get him to consider it. Given that UK was not planning to fire Cal because of an onerous contract I doubt they would be willing to get into a similar situation again.