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So Georgia Offered to Double Jeff Capel’s Salary

Posted by Trips Right on March 6th, 2009 under Basketball

The story went public in the Tulsa World News on Wednesday. GeorgiaSports blog has a good discussion on the situation. My question is what happens when the heavy hitters from the ACC like Virginia and perhaps Maryland jump into the fray? I doubt a football school like Oklahoma, in the context of a global financial crisis, can afford to getting in a bidding war with traditional basketball schools.

Sure, the Sooners are getting two McDonald’s All-Americans in Tommie Mason-Griffin and Keith Gallon, but neither is a player of the year candidate that a team can hang its hat on. Texas will be salty and Kansas is Kansas. Capel is an ACC kid at heart. Carolinians have forgiven Capel for costing Duke a National Championship.


Two million can buy a lot of Kid -N- Play fades.

The barbarians are certainly at the gates and Mr. and Mrs. Griffin should be proud of Joe Castiglione for not retaliating. We’ll see.

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  1. Texas_Dawg said:

    March 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    Far better basketball programs for sure, but could and would UVA and Maryland put up $2M or more?

  2. Bob in Houston said:

    March 6th, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    I would think so. Pretty sure they make the money.

  3. CrazyJoeDavola said:

    March 6th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    “the context of a global financial crisis”

    The phrase is “In This Economy”(tm)

  4. Pitchin Paul said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 6:44 am

    Missouri will be facing the same thing when Bama and/or Georgia come looking for a coach too. While not traditional basketball powers they don’t like to lose in any sport and defintiely have the athletic department revenues generated by football to lure Mike Anderson out of Columbia

  5. Dingus McGee said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 8:38 am

    Still a lot of oil & gas money. Oklahoma can afford the pay, question is will Capel think about the half-full (generous estimate) stands he had for most of the season and want to go somewhere the fan support is better. Probably only a matter of time before he leaves, but I wouldn’t discount the theory he waits for something better.

  6. bigdukesix said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 9:51 am

    Could someone explain the Joe Castiglione reference to me?

  7. bigdukesix said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 9:52 am

    Nevermind, googled it. I’m originally from New England, where a different Joe Castiglione is famous as the radio play-by-play guy for the Boston Red Sox. I couldn’t figure out what he had to do with this story.

  8. RansomStoddard said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 10:34 am

    They offered Capel that money, why?

  9. ponderos said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 11:27 am

    He took OU (not exactly a traditional basketball powerhouse) from life support to a Final Four contender in three years. Couple that with an overzealous AD willing to pay anything to get the same kind of results.

  10. sl xpress said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 11:46 am

    I was told Georgia will go as high as $2.8 million to get Capel.

    And the phrase is TEOTWAWKI.

  11. sl xpress said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 11:47 am

    Oh, would anyone else find it entertaining to watch OU’s recruiting class fall apart a 2nd time?

  12. srr50 said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 11:57 am

    Last year both OU and Georgia brought in about 6.5 million in basketball revenue — but Georgia cleared 3.5 million, while OU had more expenses and only cleared 1 million.

    Wonder if OU would think it would be cost effective to match such an offer.

  13. BevosBoss said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    With what he has coming back and the quality of his 2009 recruiting class, Capel would be an absolute fool to take any of those jobs mentioned! Capel’s no fool. This is nothing more than wishful thinking for some who fear good competition.

  14. Trips Right said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    Umm Gallon is okay, and TMG is nice, but you’re nuts to think ou will be anywhere near as good without Griffin. And there’s a solid chance that Warren leaves early.

    Double your salary and move out of Norman. What’s not to like?

  15. SkymonkeyHorn said:

    March 7th, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    I have heard 3.6 million figure mentioned in Chicago two days ago. With all the extras thrown in??
    Griffin goes, Willie has people whispering in his ear that it time to fly the coop.
    Gallon is almost OK. TMG is for real.
    Is Capel listening ?

  16. anonymous said:

    March 8th, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Virginia’s athletic department is anything but big time.

  17. NorthDallasSooner said:

    March 8th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    The Georgia story isn’t new, it’s been around all season.

    I think eventually we will lose him, but not to an also-ran, even if it’s ACC. He’s building something that’s really working and pretty big. My money says he sticks around until a top tier ACC comes calling. But, when that happens he goes. 2-3 more years.

  18. Bob in Houston said:

    March 8th, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    Top? It ain’t gonna be UNC. You mean like Duke? Johnny Dawkins took the Stanford job so that when K hangs it up, he’d have HC on his resume.

    I suppose he’d have a shot at it, but that’s not really my point. That is, what do you consider a top-tier ACC job? Both Virginia (not a top-tier job) and Maryland (probably so) have new arenas and a ton of seats to fill.

    If Maryland calls, I think Capel would listen hard.

  19. NorthDallasSooner said:

    March 9th, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    I would consider Maryland, historically, a top third ACC job, yeah. UNC and Duke better. After that?

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