Kentucky Coaching Search Day 3: The Most Tracked Plane In The World, Scott Drew Is Tweeting Clues, Dan Hurley's Reported God Offer

Here we go. I'm fully involved in the coach search life and quite frankly I'm addicted to it. I never experienced a coaching search on the Internet, let alone one as big as this. Cal has his intro at Arkansas later, oh well. I don't care. It happened, he's an enemy now and watching him call the hogs is going to be brutal. But this is about his replacement. This is going to be about who gets the keys to the best job in college basketball now. 

1. I'm addicted to tracking planes

I can't believe how awesome this is. We have plane news everywhere. The tweet above was the No. 1 tracked plane in the world. Why? 

The Craft's are the biggest donor for Kentucky. That's our chicken man. That's our Wal Mart. We need the Craft's because, well, money. Rich people who are involved in college sports are living the dream. I need to find a way to be rich so I can start offering coaches on behalf of my AD. Now everyone thought this was Scott Drew, at the minimum everyone assumes it's Mitch coming back from meeting with Drew. EXCEPT: 

Where are they going? Where are they going? I need eyes on planes everywhere. At the same time, this is out there. 

Which brings me to part 2: 

2. Dan Hurley got the god offer

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Fuck yeah, Mitch. Let's use all the money we have to either cripple UConn or just make Dan Hurley say yes. $11 million per year is the perfect starting point. It's aggressive as hell, UConn will now have to pay to keep Dan Hurley or he becomes interested. All I know is I'm firmly believing the plane from Lexington to Teterboro is for Dan Hurley. Can't be anything related to Keeneland or business. It's gotta be Hurley. You have to keep making Hurley say no until he gets a restraining order. 

Speaking of which, back to point 3. 

3. Scott Drew's tweet

There are no coincidences in the coaching search world. The fact Scott Drew tweeted out that he was housing some chips and salsa with a friend (and a booster, I assume) as he's being linked to the job is on purpose. Not to say he didn't take the job or won't take the job, but the fact he's currently still in Waco. 

The list

People seem to agree the top-3 is Hurley, Drew and Billy Donovan. I'm going to wait to see who they hire before I break them down. Let me just say this. Why are we treating Billy Donovan as a surefire great coach? He hasn't been in the college game for a decade. He was great at Florida, but that was 10+ years ago. Nobody is better at anything 10 years after a peak. That's just a fact. People are hating on Drew because of his postseason stuff at Baylor. Do yourself a favor and look up what he took over at Baylor. It was the worst job in sports. It was on the death penalty, it wasn't allowed to play non-conference games for a year, the fact he won a single Tournament game there is arguably more impressive than 90% of what coaches in America have accomplished.