Lulz
From fat ass
A few things to pass along...
a. Xavier's Sean Miller keeps being mentioned a lot, but no one seems to be doing so with reckless excitement. It feels like Miller is the floor for a hire and there's still some vetting taking place.
b. One source mentioned that hiring Miller would be a very "Steve Sarkisian-like" hire because while he might not move the needle on the national media level upon his arrival, he would represent an upgrade of what Texas currently has and he might just be the kind of upgrade that would net better results than the program has consistently seen for the last half-generation or so.
c. I have not been told that the job has been offered yet.
d. I wouldn't expect Del Conte to leave Rodney Terry twisting in the wind much longer.
e. The finances of making a splash hire remain problematic. Alabama's Nate Oats was mentioned as a person of interest, but that's a bit of a joke because the Longhorns wouldn't come within a 1,000-foot pole of touching his buyout, even if he wanted to come to Austin.
f. Texas isn't really competing with the big dogs in recruiting from an NIL standpoint and that reality makes the job a little less coveted than you might expect. For instance, KU's Bill Self has spent between 6.5-7.0 million per year in NIL in each of the last two years, "He's just chosen some dogs, but he can buy any player he wants," a source told me this weekend. I was told that KU guard commit Darryn Peterson is going to make 3+ million in what is expected to be his only season in a KU uniform and that doesn''t even include the million or so he'll be receiving from Adidas. A source told me that the coach that Texas hires would have to be ok with living in the middle class of NIL spend in men's basketball and that will cause some doors to close before they ever open.
From fat ass
A few things to pass along...
a. Xavier's Sean Miller keeps being mentioned a lot, but no one seems to be doing so with reckless excitement. It feels like Miller is the floor for a hire and there's still some vetting taking place.
b. One source mentioned that hiring Miller would be a very "Steve Sarkisian-like" hire because while he might not move the needle on the national media level upon his arrival, he would represent an upgrade of what Texas currently has and he might just be the kind of upgrade that would net better results than the program has consistently seen for the last half-generation or so.
c. I have not been told that the job has been offered yet.
d. I wouldn't expect Del Conte to leave Rodney Terry twisting in the wind much longer.
e. The finances of making a splash hire remain problematic. Alabama's Nate Oats was mentioned as a person of interest, but that's a bit of a joke because the Longhorns wouldn't come within a 1,000-foot pole of touching his buyout, even if he wanted to come to Austin.
f. Texas isn't really competing with the big dogs in recruiting from an NIL standpoint and that reality makes the job a little less coveted than you might expect. For instance, KU's Bill Self has spent between 6.5-7.0 million per year in NIL in each of the last two years, "He's just chosen some dogs, but he can buy any player he wants," a source told me this weekend. I was told that KU guard commit Darryn Peterson is going to make 3+ million in what is expected to be his only season in a KU uniform and that doesn''t even include the million or so he'll be receiving from Adidas. A source told me that the coach that Texas hires would have to be ok with living in the middle class of NIL spend in men's basketball and that will cause some doors to close before they ever open.
