The House of Blue

Here are three scenarios in my mind....the last being far fetched, maybe?

1. He stays and builds a power house at UK.
2. He goes to UT after Summit retires.

......and......

3. He stays and takes over the men when Cal moves on in 6-8 years!! How's that for out of the box thinking!!!!

I could really see coach staying here in Lex Vegas and building a real power. There are several advantages in staying at UK.
1.) He has a great relationship with Cal. There are very few women's programs that also have elite men's programs as well.
2.) Great facilities, which again gets a tremendous boost from the men's program.
3.) The BBN. With the unmatched passion of UK's absolutely CRAZY fan base, I think coach knows (or should) that if he can win at the highest level he could potentially have one of the very best fan bases in women's hoops.

There are also a strong variables in him leaving.
1.) Same reason as #1 on the "pros to staying list" at a school like UT, if he were to maintain the Vol's winning tradition he would be top dawg. At UK mens basketball would always reign supreme. However, the pressure at a school like that would be nuts.
2.) Lets face it, UT is to women's hoops what UK is to men's.
3.) $$$. He could potentially make a lot more money at another school where women's basketball is bigger than the men's program as far as winning.

I think only one thing is certain, if he keeps this up its only a matter of time before he is faced with making this decision.

Why would he leave?

Facilities? He has Memorial and he has Rupp if needed, so no...

Money? UK will pay him whatever other schools would and have already demonstrated so.

Chance to win it all? Does anyone really think that can't be done at UK based on what he's building?

So, what's left? Why would he feel the need to go anywhere?

Oddly enough...I was out one night with the head coach of a top 25 women's program a couple years back (random night I know) and the conversation shifted to how big of a dud hire Matthew Mitchell was at the time.

How things have changed ...

Normally KY produces 1-2 top tier girls every single year. The thing is other than Mathies and to a lesser extent Drake UK really hasn't cashed in on it in a while. Becca Greenwell could certainly change that in a HUGE way next year if we can win the dog fight for her.

KY has actually been on an uptick lately in producing talent. Sydney Moss (Randy's daughter) is headed to Florida, Sarah Hammond chose UL over UConn, and then you have Makayla Epps and Kyvin Goodin-Rogers (Anthony and Tics daughters) both heading to UL next year. Greenwell is probably going to be better than all those and may be better than Mathies if she can come back from her knee ok. She is a HUGE recruit that we're going against every major power in the country for.

Good points. Following Summit is going to be really tough for anyone to handle.

Plus, he's got great support from the administration for success at UK. I can kind of see him settling in like Billy Donovan did at Florida.