UK to offer Florida's Donovan $3.5 million a year?

[virgo]

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/SPORTS03/70330037

What do you think? Personally, this all reminds me of Nick "I'm not going to Alabama" Saban.

[EricStratton]

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/SPORTS03/70330037

What do you think? Personally, this all reminds me of Nick "I'm not going to Alabama" Saban.

I think this situation is a little different, Virgo, in that Nick wanted to get out of the NFL. Florida is the creme de la creme of college sports right now, and I would be surprised to see him take this job. However, Rick Pitino is Donovan's mentor and he may want to follow in "daddy's" footsteps, so your intuition may be true.

[virgo]

Everyone seems to think that an offer will be made this week....

[virgo]

i think donovan is headed to UK

[cubby 1]

There's no way. I can't think of anybody that would want to coach at UK and take on the stigma that has been there since Pitino left. Donovan is staying at Florida.

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[Kitty]

I wonder how many of Florida's starting five will declare for the NBA draft?

To keep the same starting five for two championship seasons is phenomenal--actually unprecedented.

I doubt Florida has the makings of a 1960s/1970s UCLA dynasty because the lure of the NBA is much greater today, but to repeat as national champions is a pretty impressive feat.

If I were Donovan, I'd stay at Florida, even if the starting five doesn't remain intact for an attempt at a three-peat*.

*Trivia time: Who has trademarked the word "three-peat?"

Answer: Pat Riley, legendary NBA championship coach, who played his college basketball at...the University of Kentucky.

[virgo]

Here's a really good column about this topic:

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=dw-billydonovan040207&prov=yhoo&type=lgn

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