Any coach for KY can recruit 1ndone players. That is why we are in this death spiral. It takes players who will develop into lottery picks, not arrive on campus that way.
He needs players who play for the name on the front of the jersey, not the back.
There will not be a BCG this time. He will be known.
I think you can build a teams and have success a plethora of ways. There is no one recipe and I leave it up to the coach to utilize whatever manner he is most comfortable with, but they better be successful doing it. There is no buffer period. Come in ready to win or don't come.
Anyone well known will be costly, and we aren't paying Cal 6.5 million a year and then a new coach 7 - 8 million a year, plus their staff. Also, I would imagine the current assistant coaches have buyouts in their deals as well. Plus, UK will suffer a pretty large tax hit because this all relates to payroll, which I highly doubt it tax exempt.
If we go the college route for our next coach, they will likely have a buyout due at their current school.
We will also likely need to fork over a lot for NIL incentives to immediately build a team from the portal for year 1 or to encourage current players and commits to stick here for a year.
That's not even factoring in fringe benefits, signing bonuses and so forth.
We will be spending around 65+million to make this one change happen. So you can bet your *** the expectations will be sky high for the new coach from day 1.
