Per Pete Thamel, who initially reported the news, said Dannen, being a lifelong Iowan was just going back to the Midwest and said Nebby was Dannen's 'dream job', nothing more.
There is a buyout. I heard 1.5M if he left before the end of 2024. Some chatter about Dannen not being easy to work with and might not have been a good fit at UW.
I concur. Lots of chatter. Dannen fires the MBB coach. 10 days later he bolts. No coaches left. Portal open & no one running the program. UW wasn't a good hoops team the last few years. Next year in the B1G could be ugly.
The day b4 Dannen took the Nebraska job he was in Palm Springs yakking it up with UW boosters.
Feels like UW got played. Not sure upper campus holds a level of priority for the athletic dept.
Changing Seattle for Lincoln,Nebraska
Just like football. One pebble in the water ripples. Nick Saban retiring affected 5-10 programs.
at Ohio state I think Gino smith retired n. Think that was his name. So osu steals atms ad. Because he was so brilliant hiring jimbo Fischer.
ATM takes trev Alberts. Which surprised me given he’s an alumnus of Neb And I didn’t think he’d done anything noteworthy at Neb
Neb then steals Washington’s guy. Why uw had no clause or buyout I have no idea. He’d been at Tulane 9 years so maybe it didn’t occur to them.
He’s going to the same conference and I don’t consider Neb a move up at all