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AK potentially getting traction at Georgia. Saw it mentioned in this article:

"Everyone wants to talk about Cleveland State head coach Dennis Gates and Xavier associate head coach Jonas Hayes at Georgia (and for good reason), but keep an eye on UAB head coach Andy Kennedy. The former Ole Miss head coach who is 46-14 in his two seasons at UAB, is a 2-time SEC Coach of the Year winner who spent 12-seasons coaching in the SEC. More names soon."

https://hoopdirt.com/daily-dirt-3-9-22/

Feels like it would be pretty surprising for him to move on, but I guess I could just be living in a dream world.

Andy isn’t going to Georgia.

I doubt it but side note: Why is it so hard to win at Georgia? Seems like they’ve had some good coaches go there the past few years but just can’t win.

Georgia is completely a football culture school and state. Plenty of elite prep players but ACC recruits it bigtime and pretty much every top basketball program recruits Atlanta. Georgia also has average facilities and support for MBB.

If Florida makes a move, I could see AK looking harder at that one over Georgia.

(03-09-2022 10:38 AM)BlazinBham Wrote:  He’s only getting 600k from us, I think. We aren’t joining a much better league regarding bids once the Big 12 3 move on. A rebuilding job in SEC is more attractive.

My bad, it’s $725k

Meanwhile, Oates and Pearl are getting 5-6 times as much - as are many other D1 head coaches. No matter how much AK may love UAB, if someone offers him a 500% raise to leave how does he turn that down? If AK is going to be here long term the powers that be had better come up with some more money.

If AK gets you guys back into the tourney this year, might be time to get his salary up to a mil at least. Heading into the AAC your going to want him and not transitioning to another coach. And we all know how easy it is to make a bad hire and torpedo a program.

(03-09-2022 10:13 AM)Auburn_Blazer Wrote:  AK potentially getting traction at Georgia. Saw it mentioned in this article:

"Everyone wants to talk about Cleveland State head coach Dennis Gates and Xavier associate head coach Jonas Hayes at Georgia (and for good reason), but keep an eye on UAB head coach Andy Kennedy. The former Ole Miss head coach who is 46-14 in his two seasons at UAB, is a 2-time SEC Coach of the Year winner who spent 12-seasons coaching in the SEC. More names soon."

https://hoopdirt.com/daily-dirt-3-9-22/

Feels like it would be pretty surprising for him to move on, but I guess I could just be living in a dream world.

Ive seen a lot of UGA fans on reddit who want him not only for his success there but the fact he has a lot of connections in the ATL AAU scene

Am I the only one who saw Andy’s return to the southside as his final coaching destination?

A Georgia Reditter goober makes a goober post and another Georgia Goober makes a goober blog post about it and now we are talking about AK being gone, being goobers ourselves, on the Eve of our biggest basketball opportunity in half a decade.

Goobers gonna Goober I guess.

(03-09-2022 11:45 AM)BlazerDave Jr Wrote:  Am I the only one who saw Andy’s return to the southside as his final coaching destination?

This is kinda my thought as well. I’m guessing he could’ve taken bigger opportunities than UAB while he was at ESPN, but he chose to come here. He continually talks about getting the program back to the “Bartow Standard”, so I don’t think he leaves until it’s back there, if ever, before retiring.

Andy could make more doing TV and radio, if he wanted to, than more than half of the p5 basketball jobs. He could easily have an elite media analyst career if he wanted to do so.

Some of ya'll are very naive.

(03-09-2022 12:17 PM)BlazeOn Wrote:  Some of ya'll are very naive.

That's a nice way of putting it.

Not at all. Georgia is a mediocre job and has been since the 1980s when they failed to capitalize on having Dominique Wilkins and then a surprise Final Four team.

Andy can make a lot more money than current job at almost any power 5 job. If it was all about money he would have taken one of many of those opportunities available to him after leaving Ole Miss. If it was all about money, he could easily be making p5 coaching job money doing TV also. He could have his own radio show and TV show on SEC Network by now and without a doubt could be positioning himself to be one of the lead analysts. There will be a void coming in the next few years with a passing of torch from Vitale, Raftery, Kellogg to a new generation, and AK could easily be in that mix if he wanted to do so.

Fact is, UAB can’t compete salary wise with any major program. It has to be about more than money. I think it is, or AK wouldn’t even be here in the first place.

(03-09-2022 01:18 PM)DuelingDragon Wrote:  Not at all. Georgia is a mediocre job and has been since the 1980s when they failed to capitalize on having Dominique Wilkins and then a surprise Final Four team.

Andy can make a lot more money than current job at almost any power 5 job. If it was all about money he would have taken one of many of those opportunities available to him after leaving Ole Miss. If it was all about money, he could easily be making p5 coaching job money doing TV also. He could have his own radio show and TV show on SEC Network by now and without a doubt could be positioning himself to be one of the lead analysts. There will be a void coming in the next few years with a passing of torch from Vitale, Raftery, Kellogg to a new generation, and AK could easily be in that mix if he wanted to do so.

Fact is, UAB can’t compete salary wise with any major program. It has to be about more than money. I think it is, or AK wouldn’t even be here in the first place.

Exactly.

(03-09-2022 01:18 PM)DuelingDragon Wrote:  Not at all. Georgia is a mediocre job and has been since the 1980s when they failed to capitalize on having Dominique Wilkins and then a surprise Final Four team.

Andy can make a lot more money than current job at almost any power 5 job. If it was all about money he would have taken one of many of those opportunities available to him after leaving Ole Miss. If it was all about money, he could easily be making p5 coaching job money doing TV also. He could have his own radio show and TV show on SEC Network by now and without a doubt could be positioning himself to be one of the lead analysts. There will be a void coming in the next few years with a passing of torch from Vitale, Raftery, Kellogg to a new generation, and AK could easily be in that mix if he wanted to do so.

Fact is, UAB can’t compete salary wise with any major program. It has to be about more than money. I think it is, or AK wouldn’t even be here in the first place.

I agree. I am amazed at how many people are completely driven by money, as if that is the only factor in life, and assume that's the case for everyone else. We have been hearing it for years with Coach Clark, as we have with Andy. There's no way AK comes here to begin with (paid less than Ehsan at first) if it was about money. Even back to Coach Bartow, he had plenty of opportunities to leave--including to Kentucky, for exponentially more money--but he knew there were some things worth more than money.

None of these guys are hurting for money right now. They could make MORE--and likely. much more--but they are happy where they are and certainly already wealthier than they could have ever dreamed.

(03-09-2022 01:47 PM)bftb Wrote:  

(03-09-2022 01:18 PM)DuelingDragon Wrote:  Not at all. Georgia is a mediocre job and has been since the 1980s when they failed to capitalize on having Dominique Wilkins and then a surprise Final Four team.

Andy can make a lot more money than current job at almost any power 5 job. If it was all about money he would have taken one of many of those opportunities available to him after leaving Ole Miss. If it was all about money, he could easily be making p5 coaching job money doing TV also. He could have his own radio show and TV show on SEC Network by now and without a doubt could be positioning himself to be one of the lead analysts. There will be a void coming in the next few years with a passing of torch from Vitale, Raftery, Kellogg to a new generation, and AK could easily be in that mix if he wanted to do so.

Fact is, UAB can’t compete salary wise with any major program. It has to be about more than money. I think it is, or AK wouldn’t even be here in the first place.

I agree. I am amazed at how many people are completely driven by money, as if that is the only factor in life, and assume that's the case for everyone else. We have been hearing it for years with Coach Clark, as we have with Andy. There's no way AK comes here to begin with (paid less than Ehsan at first) if it was about money. Even back to Coach Bartow, he had plenty of opportunities to leave--including to Kentucky, for exponentially more money--but he knew there were some things worth more than money.

None of these guys are hurting for money right now. They could make MORE--and likely. much more--but they are happy where they are and certainly already wealthier than they could have ever dreamed.

+1

(03-09-2022 02:32 PM)BlazerFromMD Wrote:  

(03-09-2022 01:47 PM)bftb Wrote:  

(03-09-2022 01:18 PM)DuelingDragon Wrote:  Not at all. Georgia is a mediocre job and has been since the 1980s when they failed to capitalize on having Dominique Wilkins and then a surprise Final Four team.

Andy can make a lot more money than current job at almost any power 5 job. If it was all about money he would have taken one of many of those opportunities available to him after leaving Ole Miss. If it was all about money, he could easily be making p5 coaching job money doing TV also. He could have his own radio show and TV show on SEC Network by now and without a doubt could be positioning himself to be one of the lead analysts. There will be a void coming in the next few years with a passing of torch from Vitale, Raftery, Kellogg to a new generation, and AK could easily be in that mix if he wanted to do so.

Fact is, UAB can’t compete salary wise with any major program. It has to be about more than money. I think it is, or AK wouldn’t even be here in the first place.

I agree. I am amazed at how many people are completely driven by money, as if that is the only factor in life, and assume that's the case for everyone else. We have been hearing it for years with Coach Clark, as we have with Andy. There's no way AK comes here to begin with (paid less than Ehsan at first) if it was about money. Even back to Coach Bartow, he had plenty of opportunities to leave--including to Kentucky, for exponentially more money--but he knew there were some things worth more than money.

None of these guys are hurting for money right now. They could make MORE--and likely. much more--but they are happy where they are and certainly already wealthier than they could have ever dreamed.

+1

CLARK AND kENNEDY WILL never get fire a UAB (95 % accurate )

I don't think AK would be a good fit for UGA.