(05-08-2017 10:57 AM)Seahawkhoops Wrote:  

(05-08-2017 10:42 AM)BigPack1517 Wrote:  

(05-08-2017 10:35 AM)bricksnivy Wrote:  Pitino is making over 5 million this year, more than double what State is paying Keatts. If L'ville wants Keatts down the line, salary won't be an issue. You have to assume that Keatts is pretty close to the top of his salary band as the highest paid coach in the UNC system, but that discussion is probably for another day.

Intra-conference transfers are blocked by the league to protect the league. Similarly, UNCW could place transfer restrictions on a player to protect our program. It's really that simple to me. Or we could allow him to transfer without restriction but lose a year of eligibility while sitting out.

As I said, I was referring to what this search was capped at, not what Keatts' eventual salary was. I'm not saying salary is going to be an issue for anyone, I am saying State is going to be willing to match whatever L'Ville would potentially offer if that time were to come. If Keatts wants to go to L'Ville, it is because that is where he wants to be, not because of a pay raise.

As for transfers, of course that is why transfer restrictions are put it into play, as well as blocking a transfer from playing at future scheduled opponents. My question is, how does blocking a guy from going to State and playing for the coach that recruited him but allowing him to go to some other ACC school protect UNCW's program?

In the future if we lost a good coach someone wanting to follow would think twice

So instead of that player obviously wanting to be elsewhere and allowing him to do so in what he believes is in his best interest, you'd rather try and use that tactic in getting him to stay somewhere he does not want to be?