Coach watch: Alabama offers Grant $2 million

By Lindsay Barnes III |
Published online 10:34am Wednesday Mar 25th, 2009

If UVA officials wanted to hire Virginia Commonwealth head men's basketball coach Anthony Grant to lead their Cavaliers, they may be too late. Richmond's WTVR reports that Grant is visiting the campus of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa today and that Alabama has made Grant an offer to coach the Crimson Tide for between $2.1 and $2.4 million annually. That's reportedly double what VCU has offered Grant to stay.
–updated Wednesday, March 25 at 12:24pm, original headline "Coach watch: Grant may get offer from Alabama"

7 comments

rammer jammer March 26th, 2009 | 2:49pm

Give up UVA. Obviously Grant has no intrest at all in UVA. Looks like he is coming to the Tide. Also Tubby aint coming either so where does that leave yall?

Music Lover March 26th, 2009 | 7:43am

30-45 days will be too late. Virginia already missed the first contact period for recruiting (which ended Sunday), and if they don't have somebody soon they'll miss the next ones (April 2-13, April 16-May 21).

If Littlepage's job isn't on the line with this specific hire, it should be. The problem is he's allowed the basketball program to decay to the point that it will take 3 or 4 years to bring it up to speed, and longer than that to make it highly competitive in the ACC. No name coach has that kind of patience, and no unknown coach has the chops to withstand the impatience that already exists thanks to the past 6 or 7 years of general ineptitude.

It continues to amaze me that the sport that has fallen the farthest in Littlepage's tenure is the one he has the most experience in. What does that tell you?

Nonsense March 25th, 2009 | 12:43pm

I think we will have a coach too...but who?

diagoliv March 25th, 2009 | 11:55am

Everybody needs to relax until the NCAA's are over, Capel is still in it . I think we will have our coach in the next 30-45 days if not sooner.

Nonsense March 25th, 2009 | 11:40am

No Grant you must stay in VA! If Grant slips past us Littlepage should be canned. The reality is all this Tubby-talk is spinnig our wheels while Grant has energy to get UVA on track again.

TJ March 25th, 2009 | 10:49am

Wonder how much it would cost to re-hire Leitao ?

Good Luck March 25th, 2009 | 3:52pm

Tubby aint coming to UVA and Grant has no interest in that job. Who would?