This is exactly right...
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Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut
- Arizona will almost certainly try to gauge the interest of Calipari, Pitino and Izzo (they probably already have). But as I wrote in today’s paper, the group of schools who can put a better deal in front of Calipari than what he has at Memphis is extremely small. To this point, the contract numbers Arizona has thrown around don’t come close.
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The biggest hurdle anyone faces is that Memphis has created a contract structure that any athletic department with more than one sport as a priority (ie, every major BCS school) can't match.
Cal's has to (and was earlier in the year) willing to take less money.
Memphis has to over pay, no one else does.
Arizona will pay market rate, but not Memphis rate.
The UK opening changes the landscape for Cal->Arizona. No doubt.
But it's not a given that Cal is staying at Memphis. He's ready to leave, it comes down to the money involved and the program.