re: Coach K retiring?

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Lulz

Nate Oats turned down the head coaching job at Duke already?

Mkay

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He hasn't been offered the Duke job. So no, he hasn't turned it down. I wouldn't expect it to be offered to him either if K does retire. He just signed an extension that will pay him over $3M per year and raised his buyout to north of $12M. I'd be a little surprised if someone was willing to pay that buyout for him after only two years of P5 experience. Oats seems more than happy with his current situation anyway. I think we are still a few years away from really having to worry about Oats making the jump to another job. Based off of his comments in the past, there aren't very many college jobs out there that I am overly worried about having to compete with to keep him.

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“I was happy Greg extended me and I like it in Alabama a lot,” Oats said. “I like working with Greg, I like working with the staff we have. I want to continue to build this thing, so I didn’t mind that he pretty much took me out of contention for a lot of those jobs that maybe my name came up, because I really don’t want to move. I’ve got three young girls that are — I’ve got a daughter going into her senior year of high school, an 11-year-old and an 8-year-old. My family likes it there, we’d like to be there a long time, we’d like to build it. I just think if we keep getting better, we can kind of eliminate a lot of those distractions as you got close to the end of the year. Now, we can just focus on recruiting and building this program.”

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