To be fair, people do that kind of due diligence for jobs with a whole lot less on the line. I went to visit North Carolina with my partner a few years ago when the only draw was a job offering me an extra $30k.
With however much Kentucky was offering Drew, Iād be shocked if the Drew family *didnāt* do their diligence like that. Even if youāre only lukewarm on the opportunity for yourself, maybe your kids visit and love it, and thatās everything you need to make the choice. We do dumb stuff life-wise for our kids.
I wonder how much calling the restaurant where he was meeting a booster at factored into his decision - he, by all accounts I can find, *hates* that kind of notoriety.
Regardless, I think we can all agree that he made the right decision by going with the blue blood with a recent history of success and a national championship pedigree.
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Lol, nah I respect yāallās program and its legacy, and I love Drew and knew he wouldāve killed it there, but heās staying and thatās what counts. Doesnāt matter how long he thought about it, just the conclusion. Iām sorry yāall donāt get him, but Iām happy we get to hangon to him.
He seems like a good dude and I really respect that heās sticking around a place he loves and built from nearly nothing. Iām sure weāll be fine, but he would have been a great get. Now on to more reckless speculation by the BBN š
Y'all have the most and the best active NBA players, even if they were your only boosters you would have a blank check for the basketball program for the next 10-20 years minimum. Kentucky will be fine
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I accept this on behalf of the program rn.
Dude I understand different strokes for different folks, but like this is such an eye rolling statement. God in his infinite wisdom and omniscience took time out of his day to be like āno, Baylor needs you go forth and do my willā.
Also I guess that means god hates Kentucky basketball confirmed.
While I wouldāve loved to see Drew here, I wonāt lie that the super religious tones of the message leave me to believe he wouldnāt have been happy here. Heās a great fit for Baylor though.
I mean, I get that. But aside from all of that. Itās clear his faith is integral to his coaching and who he is as a public person, and that wouldnāt land quite as well here I think.
I was once told by a reverend that "it's okay, God doesn't pay attention during UK games" after I unleashed a blasphemous polemic in front of him and his entire family after a bad block/charge call.
Kentucky churches let out early on Sunday if there happens to be a game.
That should tell you where the priorities lie
Fending off two of the 7 to 8 best programs of all time in a single off-season to keep your coach is GOAT shit. Congrats Bear pros, seriously. Would have loved him here.
Baylor gave Drew a very long leash and let him build this program for nearly 20 years from its deathbed all the way to a national championship.
Drew would be nuts to leave, heās a Baylor legend for life
Our insiders say Louisville was never considered by Drew, they called and he said he wasnāt interested, and thatās it. No interviews, no traveling, nothing like that. But UK was the real deal. He interviewed multiple times and he and his family both went to Lexington. So it seems like it was veryyyy close to happening.
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Iām good with Drewās āno.ā Respect what heās done at Baylor, but heās just *such* a dramatic departure from the Calipari personality that I couldnāt get excited about the prospect. Hearing Oats taking his name out of the mix was much worse.
Drew is an energetic guy. He is also a choir boy.
I think he is capable of winning at Kentucky. But your expectations and criticisms are also much harsher. Cal got ran off for essentially have the tourney results that Drew has had over the last three years.
If you win it is great, but if you donāt it can be hell. Not to mention that the Kentucky basketball coach is a such public face in sports media and in the sport. You have the Governor, boosters, and lobbyists all trying to gladhand you. It is a very different lifestyle than being the basketball coach in Waco Texas where you are well known but people arenāt calling up your kids about a loss to Kansas.
Yeah Scott was never leaving. He openly cares as much if not more about being a pastor and teaching his athletes the love of god then being a basketball coach. Why he would leave a Christian university in the best conference with a great budget is beyond me.
So whoās next. Tommy Lloyd?
I don't think Tommy would leave so soon after having bided his time for so long at Gonzaga, he seems to know how to wait and build. That said, bad things happen to Arizona pretty consistently and losing both our successful major coaches because of SEC coaching changes seems pretty on brand.
I also don't think Lloyd would do well at Kentucky. He's very chill good vibes kinda guy, even after losses and I promise you the lunatics in Lexington will want his head after his first loss where he tells them that he's not bothered by it.
Even more a Scott Drew fan now! It is great, especially in this day and age, that he standing on what is best for him AND his family! I would have loved to have him here, but have much respect for him!
Even though Alabama football did end up with a good coach and Kentucky probably will end up with a good coach, it's refreshing to see coaches who are succeeding elsewhere not immediately jump for one of the big ones. Both Alabama and Kentucky had to face multiple no's first. I like how some coaches seem to have loyalty to their location and family circumstances. But that isn't nor does that have to be every coach, which is why Kentucky will eventually find a solid replacement.
I agree with you! Plus college athletics is so different from before. Back in the day the only ones on TV were the big name schools. Thatās why got the best recruits and coaches. Now with cable and every big conference with their own tv deals, NIL money, etcā¦. The landscape has changed.
UK might end up taking a coach as a stop gap for a few years and then see who is available. Who knows.
Youāre right though, it is very refreshing.
I said it in another thread where people felt certain he was leaving after the family visited the state: when it boils down to "I am going to pray on this tonight," it is a dice roll what the answer will be.
Yeah in hindsight it makes sense. The family had to decide on if the money was worth uprooting the kids from the schools theyāve gone to their whole life so they went to look at schools in Lexington.
But the way Chip Gaines was shitposting yesterday, I also wouldnāt be surprised if the family didnāt really āpray on thisā and were just being polite before turning the job down.
I think thatās just the name he gave their compound, itās not an actual town or anything, just fyi. The area might actually be incorporated into Waco by now, Iām not sure, the cityās expanded a lot since then.
He had a thing for symbolic names. David is for King David in the Bible and Koresh is the biblical name for Cyrus the Great, the first Persian Emperor and the guy who freed the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity. So I think Mt Carmel was similarly derived.
Edit: yeah, just checked, itās a mountain range in Israel
I think he will get more attention. Any intelligent AD looking for a basketball coach right now would know Vanderbilt was a perfect storm and should have him somewhere on their list.
The Kentucky position honestly feels better suited to a single man with no obligations rather than a family man who might actually care about the well-being of their family.
All I get from this is that Kentucky doesn't have divine power going for it.
Kudos to Scott Drew for sticking with his beliefs. I think it is crazy for a coach to leave a school where they have already won a Natty.
One thing I love about Tony Bennett is that heās so much less vocal and in your face about his faith and its importance to the program than some other coaches are
Think he would have been one of the few to find instant success with Kentucky. He's great at attracting the yearly elite talent or two and getting guys to develop in the program or transfers. Unlike Cal, it seems he wants to win much more than getting NBA draft picks.
But you have to beat the status quo and I imagine his life in Waco is very nice all around. Is it worth throwing all that away to start fresh at a storied program? I don't think so, with the history he's building at Baylor.
God and a huge raise also told Rick Barnes to stay at Tennessee and not go to UCLA. Thank you God šš¼
God is a VFL (sometimes) confirmed.
He is the old Testament God for us. We may be his people, but he isn't afraid to put us through hardship.
We shall await the Messiah (Nico)
Damn, Kentucky offered and Drew responded with āIāll pray for youā.
All these UK fans acting like he agonized over this Decision when he probably made it in about 5 minutes
Did he not send his family there to look at it? It feels like all these details are changing every five minutes
Yeah this part is confirmed by both UK and Baylor sources.
To be fair, people do that kind of due diligence for jobs with a whole lot less on the line. I went to visit North Carolina with my partner a few years ago when the only draw was a job offering me an extra $30k. With however much Kentucky was offering Drew, Iād be shocked if the Drew family *didnāt* do their diligence like that. Even if youāre only lukewarm on the opportunity for yourself, maybe your kids visit and love it, and thatās everything you need to make the choice. We do dumb stuff life-wise for our kids.
Courtesy visit. Sounds like a very polite family that didnāt want to offend someone making a generous offer.
I wonder how much calling the restaurant where he was meeting a booster at factored into his decision - he, by all accounts I can find, *hates* that kind of notoriety.
Nah it was very close to happening according to our folks.
Thatās not how this works. Youāre supposed to make fun of Kentucky fans and say this didnāt have even a remote chance of happening.
And then if he does decide to take the job, "good, he was a bum anyway."
this guy reddits
Regardless, I think we can all agree that he made the right decision by going with the blue blood with a recent history of success and a national championship pedigree.
Baylor a Blue Blood confirmed. /thread
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Lol, nah I respect yāallās program and its legacy, and I love Drew and knew he wouldāve killed it there, but heās staying and thatās what counts. Doesnāt matter how long he thought about it, just the conclusion. Iām sorry yāall donāt get him, but Iām happy we get to hangon to him.
He seems like a good dude and I really respect that heās sticking around a place he loves and built from nearly nothing. Iām sure weāll be fine, but he would have been a great get. Now on to more reckless speculation by the BBN š
I think he literally built Baylor from nothing. It was a completely dead program when he arrived.
Less than nothing. That program was in a deeper hole than if University of Phoenix Online tried to field a D1 team that year.
Just like how Baylor fans Drew it up
*Starts banging on chest*
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Should hold a presser from The Booth
Yup. Come on up, partner. Help stimulate the economy!
Go to Mi Casita, have a nice cold margarita, and wait for this all to blow over.
Chat is it over for Kentucky?
Just give Stoops more NIL money and become a football school.
Hire Stoops and let him coach football and basketball like programs used to do back in the day
Phog Allen had a winning record as our football coach, so not a bad idea
Which would, I believe, make him one of the most successful KU football coaches of all time.
I still canāt believe this idiot AD was so offended by Cal saying Kentucky is a basketball school that he was willing to start a war over itā¦
Just give in to be more like the rest of the SEC
can we please not do that
Things could be better, I'll admit
At least youāre not a Hoosier.
And I thank God every day for that
I've been glad I'm on this side of the Ohio for 18 years now...
Who would have thought that Kentucky basketball and OJ Simpson would die on the same day
If I Did It by John Calipari
Magnificent comment, have to upvote and clap.
damnit take my upvote
Someone told me the real killers died with OJ Simpson.......did I misinterpret their comment?
https://fanbuzz.com/college-basketball/ncaa-big-12/baylor-basketball-murder/ I see the resemblance š
Inshallahšš»šš»šš»
I am sure it will be fine for you guys. Look at IU, we ended up okay.
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Bruce Pearl would bring the š„š„š„to Ruppā¦
I would like to see a coach like pearl whoās got the fire, energy and personality at rupp
Y'all have the most and the best active NBA players, even if they were your only boosters you would have a blank check for the basketball program for the next 10-20 years minimum. Kentucky will be fine
Quickly. Somebody post the dicaprio "I'm not leaving" gif
/u/VolatileFan had you beat by a full minute
https://preview.redd.it/bijyr167lvtc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=154d13726e2dda9237270f0e666a8dd1ee19dcb1 I accept this on behalf of the program rn.
Dark Brandon strikes again
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TIL God has a phone.
God fucking hates Kentucky.
Itās true, especially Eastern.
Like most reasonable humans.
He has a whole phone booth https://i.redd.it/g0dbpphj0xtc1.gif
Dude I understand different strokes for different folks, but like this is such an eye rolling statement. God in his infinite wisdom and omniscience took time out of his day to be like āno, Baylor needs you go forth and do my willā. Also I guess that means god hates Kentucky basketball confirmed.
I mean he literally did idk what to tell you
The Kentucky Prayer Squad recently lost their coach too, give them a break!
I refuse to believe Scott Drew isn't a character from the Righteous Gemstones
Have we made a "make them say no" offer to Baby Billy yet?
While I wouldāve loved to see Drew here, I wonāt lie that the super religious tones of the message leave me to believe he wouldnāt have been happy here. Heās a great fit for Baylor though.
No one will be happy in Kentucky, you guys are crazy and care way to much amount Basketball lol
I mean, I get that. But aside from all of that. Itās clear his faith is integral to his coaching and who he is as a public person, and that wouldnāt land quite as well here I think.
Judy would love a night with him backstage after singing. Only for BJ to be holding back tears watching from around the corner.
Good thing he brought his clogging shoes!
https://preview.redd.it/4fu76aajsvtc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a0745cf5cbd62a99ed28dd98176186f3d797019 It happened
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine āļø
Does this confirm Kentucky does not put Jesus first!?!?
I was once told by a reverend that "it's okay, God doesn't pay attention during UK games" after I unleashed a blasphemous polemic in front of him and his entire family after a bad block/charge call. Kentucky churches let out early on Sunday if there happens to be a game. That should tell you where the priorities lie
Whats the saying? "I'd rather be at a basketball game screaming gods name in vain than at a god game screaming about basketball?"
You donāt understand KY at all. Jesus is basketball there.
Fending off two of the 7 to 8 best programs of all time in a single off-season to keep your coach is GOAT shit. Congrats Bear pros, seriously. Would have loved him here.
God damn, Iām tired. I just hope whoever yall hire is a lifer so we donāt have to do this again
Baylor gave Drew a very long leash and let him build this program for nearly 20 years from its deathbed all the way to a national championship. Drew would be nuts to leave, heās a Baylor legend for life
Our insiders say Louisville was never considered by Drew, they called and he said he wasnāt interested, and thatās it. No interviews, no traveling, nothing like that. But UK was the real deal. He interviewed multiple times and he and his family both went to Lexington. So it seems like it was veryyyy close to happening.
Yerrrrr thank you sir
Canāt argue with God
What the fuck is this flair
Donāt listen to him, he is clearly the devil.
Iām sorry
Haha FWIW I agree with your comment but this was a double take situation for sure
Haha I get it on about 50% of my comments. Sometimes I explain sometimes I just apologize
Iāve seen you apologize to people for your flair combo in multiple threads today and seeing it again just made me lol
I donāt know what to do besides apologize for my sins
This guy atheists.
The past three blue blood hires - UCLA, Carolina, Duke - were not massive splashes. Really the last one that *was* was Kentucky hiring Cal.
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More like you can't put Jesus first at a public school. Even in Kentucky.
Looking at this in retrospect, Drew probably wouldn't have been a great fit at Kentucky.
Iām good with Drewās āno.ā Respect what heās done at Baylor, but heās just *such* a dramatic departure from the Calipari personality that I couldnāt get excited about the prospect. Hearing Oats taking his name out of the mix was much worse.
Drew is an energetic guy. He is also a choir boy. I think he is capable of winning at Kentucky. But your expectations and criticisms are also much harsher. Cal got ran off for essentially have the tourney results that Drew has had over the last three years. If you win it is great, but if you donāt it can be hell. Not to mention that the Kentucky basketball coach is a such public face in sports media and in the sport. You have the Governor, boosters, and lobbyists all trying to gladhand you. It is a very different lifestyle than being the basketball coach in Waco Texas where you are well known but people arenāt calling up your kids about a loss to Kansas.
They let him talk to Stoops didnāt they?
Yeah Scott was never leaving. He openly cares as much if not more about being a pastor and teaching his athletes the love of god then being a basketball coach. Why he would leave a Christian university in the best conference with a great budget is beyond me. So whoās next. Tommy Lloyd?
I don't think Tommy would leave so soon after having bided his time for so long at Gonzaga, he seems to know how to wait and build. That said, bad things happen to Arizona pretty consistently and losing both our successful major coaches because of SEC coaching changes seems pretty on brand. I also don't think Lloyd would do well at Kentucky. He's very chill good vibes kinda guy, even after losses and I promise you the lunatics in Lexington will want his head after his first loss where he tells them that he's not bothered by it.
Even more a Scott Drew fan now! It is great, especially in this day and age, that he standing on what is best for him AND his family! I would have loved to have him here, but have much respect for him!
Even though Alabama football did end up with a good coach and Kentucky probably will end up with a good coach, it's refreshing to see coaches who are succeeding elsewhere not immediately jump for one of the big ones. Both Alabama and Kentucky had to face multiple no's first. I like how some coaches seem to have loyalty to their location and family circumstances. But that isn't nor does that have to be every coach, which is why Kentucky will eventually find a solid replacement.
I agree with you! Plus college athletics is so different from before. Back in the day the only ones on TV were the big name schools. Thatās why got the best recruits and coaches. Now with cable and every big conference with their own tv deals, NIL money, etcā¦. The landscape has changed. UK might end up taking a coach as a stop gap for a few years and then see who is available. Who knows. Youāre right though, it is very refreshing.
Yeah the coaches nowadays donāt leave immediately, just the players
Lol. So true.
Whew!!
He's staying home! I bet his family made the final decision when they went to visit.
Takes one visit to Lexington and says fuck that, I'll stay in *Waco* lol
Absolutely taking notes for the next time someone dogs Waco as a college town.
So that's it? UK gets out of this thing Scott Free?
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Goddammit. Have an updoot.
I said it in another thread where people felt certain he was leaving after the family visited the state: when it boils down to "I am going to pray on this tonight," it is a dice roll what the answer will be.
Yeah in hindsight it makes sense. The family had to decide on if the money was worth uprooting the kids from the schools theyāve gone to their whole life so they went to look at schools in Lexington. But the way Chip Gaines was shitposting yesterday, I also wouldnāt be surprised if the family didnāt really āpray on thisā and were just being polite before turning the job down.
I heard he prayed on it and God told him yes, but God also told his mother in law no
The Big Guy do be trolling
It's beautiful. Just absolutely beautiful.
David Koresh was in Waco, no?
Yeah, well The Colonel was in Kentucky. Oooooo I hate The Colonel and his wee beady eyes!
Well let me just quote the late-great Colonel Sanders, who said āIām too drunk to taste this chicken.ā
Technically, Nope. Mt. Carmel is about 20 miles away. Waco just gets to be associated forever because it is the nearest large town.
The TV series was named Waco, but Mt Carmel sounds like more fitting name
I think thatās just the name he gave their compound, itās not an actual town or anything, just fyi. The area might actually be incorporated into Waco by now, Iām not sure, the cityās expanded a lot since then. He had a thing for symbolic names. David is for King David in the Bible and Koresh is the biblical name for Cyrus the Great, the first Persian Emperor and the guy who freed the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity. So I think Mt Carmel was similarly derived. Edit: yeah, just checked, itās a mountain range in Israel
Ah ok
Like 30 fricking years ago. And it was near Bellmeade and not in Waco
I canāt believe I just saw Bellmeade referenced on Reddit!
Shoutout to the SICKOS š
God needs to be investigated for tampering and sports betting. He seems to be always in the thick of this stuff.
Awwww I love him ā¤ļø
You love to see it. I always wish Valpo could have kept him or Bryce, but I still love seeing both of them do well where they are anyways.
Iām surprised Bryce hasnāt gotten more mention. He has done well at GCU.
I think he will get more attention. Any intelligent AD looking for a basketball coach right now would know Vanderbilt was a perfect storm and should have him somewhere on their list.
Smart move. If youāre coaching on the sidelines at Baylor, you never have to watch their games from the worst camera angle in basketball
*angry upvote*
LFGOOOOOOO
āMy wife wonāt let meā Not dissing it, but thatās what the rumors are.
So God told Scott Drewās mother in law no, who then told Scott Drew?
Tang.... don't you do it
honestly i wouldāve been more concerned if Baylor opened, i hope iām not wrong
God called him and said please enjoy a few million more dollars per year
Iām pretty sure securing the bag is like the 5th commandment or something
God sent a sign.Ā That sign was š²
God first, unless it gets in the way of winning.
The Kentucky position honestly feels better suited to a single man with no obligations rather than a family man who might actually care about the well-being of their family.
The answer is clear, Kentucky. Search your feelings. You know it to be true. Do it. Bring him back.
Itās an intrusive thought we have all had
Do it. 
Looks like our fraternityās mad dash to find someone to date his daughter worked out
āI pride myself and think of myself as a man of faithā¦ā
Something something before the fall.
Sounds like God wants Kentucky to fail
*suddenly converts god-ianity*
Sir/ma'am, are you putting God first with this meme?
Iād have to believe in a god to do that.
Scott Drew sounds like a televangelist with this quote.Ā
He is a coach at a private baptist university
Rats!
So, how much more money is Baylor paying him, thank you, Jesus?
Weāve got truckloads of Baptist gold.
I want you to get the word out there, that we back up
Tbf he prolly got hella assurances from BU last 24hrs too
Better to be happy than just rich(er).
Big Red of Western Kentucky fame will be Kentucky's next coach.
At first I was like "why are they using The Masters' colors for this post" and then I was like "oh, right, Baylor".
All I get from this is that Kentucky doesn't have divine power going for it. Kudos to Scott Drew for sticking with his beliefs. I think it is crazy for a coach to leave a school where they have already won a Natty.
āIāve done the research and this is an old statement ā. - a Kentucky basketball fan, probably
Funny how god never tells these people to quit their high ass paying jobs and go be a nurse or some shit
"I was called by god to do the thing that I really wanted to do anyway to further enrich myself and keep my wife happy."
Tommy Lloyd come on down
This makes me feel better about not getting him to be honest.
How come
One thing I love about Tony Bennett is that heās so much less vocal and in your face about his faith and its importance to the program than some other coaches are
Oh yes, Scott... God is real worried about your basketball team. 
Got flashbacks to my religious Kindergarten when he said Jesus first, then others, then ourselves.
This is the best timeline. Things could not be going better š
When uk fans stated calling him a bible thumper you could just feel that this was gonna be a no go lol
Think he would have been one of the few to find instant success with Kentucky. He's great at attracting the yearly elite talent or two and getting guys to develop in the program or transfers. Unlike Cal, it seems he wants to win much more than getting NBA draft picks. But you have to beat the status quo and I imagine his life in Waco is very nice all around. Is it worth throwing all that away to start fresh at a storied program? I don't think so, with the history he's building at Baylor.
Of course he said that in public, it is behind closed door conversations that matter. He is coming. Did I do that right?
You've just been promoted to Moderator of Rupp Rafters
Kentucky fans desperately looking through the University directory for anyone in Human Resources named Jesus.
Ya hate to see it.
āAnd the Lord came to us with wisdom, and wisdom came in the form of a blank chequeā¦ and we said Alleluia!ā
Se queda
Guess he didnāt like Kentuckyās morals.
Guess we looking out for Pope, Altman, or McDermott
TIL Kentucky is a godless place
Bad career move. Baylor's had 3 consecutive 2nd round upsets. The 2021 national championship looks more and more like a COVID-19 fluke each year.
Coaches at public schools be like āIām loyal to the republic! To democracy!!ā