Deja vu...

[JeeberD]

For the second time in three years UTEP has lost our basketball coach to a Big XII school more know for their football program than their basketball program. At least Doc isn't a whining, lying little bitch like the other fella...

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2542570

Source: Sadler to be named next Nebraska coach
By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

UTEP coach Doc Sadler is expected to be named the next head coach at Nebraska, a source told ESPN.com on Monday. An announcement is expected on Tuesday.

Nebraska athletic director Steve Pederson and assistant AD Marc Boehm flew down to El Paso on Monday to fly Sadler back to Lincoln to meet university Chancellor Harvey Pearlman, the source said.

Sources confirmed that Sadler met with Nebraska officials Sunday at a neutral site. Multiple media outlets reported that the site was Denver.

A source close to Sadler told ESPN.com that UTEP athletic director Bob Stull was expecting to hear from Sadler late Monday if he had been offered and accepted the job.

A source close to Sadler said he would accept the job if offered. Sadler talked with Pederson and Boehm at the Double Pump retreat last week in Los Angeles. The NU officials also talked to GW's Karl Hobbs. NU officials officially asked for permission to speak with Sadler, Hobbs and South Alabama's John Pelphrey but have only met separately with Sadler since the L.A event.

Sadler coached the Miners to the NCAA Tournament in his first year with the program. UTEP made the NIT this past season.

Sadler will become the second straight UTEP coach whose tenure in El Paso lasted just two seasons. Billy Gillispie coached the Miners from 2002-04 before accepting the head coaching position at Texas A&M.

When Sadler leaves, Stull is expected to talk to assistants Randell Dickey and Tony Benford, who just arrived a few weeks ago but has strong ties to the region after recruiting Texas for New Mexico and Arizona State. He is from nearby Hobbs, N.M., and played at Texas Tech in the mid '80s.

Folks on the UTEP boards are already calling for Miner alum Nolan Richardson to be our next coach. Joy...

[Young Drachma]

How was the team last season?

[JeeberD]

Decent...21-9 (third place in CUSA) and made it to the NIT despite numerous injuries, including having our best player blow out his ACL 2/3 of the way through the season.

[Groundhog]

I don't understand how this works. A coach is under contract with a team, yet he can leave and join another team? Does he have to pay any cash to terminate the contract? Is that how it works? I'm completely clueless about this area of college hoops.

[JeeberD]

The school that hires the coach pays a severance to the coaches old school. The amount of the severance is stated in the coaches contract, typically.

[SackAttack]

But if the kids change teams, they have to forfeit a year of eligibility basically.

Isn't that beautiful?

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

But if the kids change teams, they have to forfeit a year of eligibility basically.

Isn't that beautiful?

I agree. Coaches should have to sit out a year too if you ask me. I understand why there is the "sit out a year" penalty applied to kids, but for the exact same reasons it should be applied to coaches, too.