I spoke with an alumni who works in the UO athletic dept and he tells me we have spoken with several agents for various coaches. I am also told the only legitimate offer we made was to Mark Few, but he wanted much more than we were willing to pay him- in other words, he didn't want to change jobs. People like Porter and Carlissimo won't even be contacted.
Personally, I think the Butler coach would really want the job. Yeah, he has a good team for next year, but at some point in time that little school will run out of luck and once they have a couple of down seasons they'll be back as #15 or 16 seeds again... and he'll continue to make his $300-400K per season. Now, maybe that's fine for him as he can probably coach there as long as he wants to and enjoy a long and somewhat successful career. But if he wants to coach at a prestigious college, he will have to use a school like Oregon as a stepping stone. And we have good talent that will be mostly juniors next season so he can mold them as he wants. He will earn well over $1 million per season, have a new arena, a conference that gets more respect than his.... it's a taylor made job.
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