Scott Drew, who won a national title at Baylor in 2021, has a close relationship with Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart but ultimately decided to remain the Bears' coach, sources told ESPN.
Stephen A. Smith says Kentucky is not the job it once was and coach Dan Hurley should not even consider it. Drew, who won a national title at Baylor in 2021, has a close relationship with Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart but ultimately decided to stay at Baylor, where he has coached for 21 years and gone 446-244.
Drew's decision to stay in Waco leaves Kentucky's administrators looking at a different tier of candidates. Before the job even opened, national title-winning coaches Jay Wright, formerly ofDrew is not believed to have met with Kentucky in person, sources said. But the depth of the relationship with Barnhart didn't make that a necessity.
Drew, 53, led one of the greatest rebuilding efforts in college sports history since taking over at Baylor in 2003, when he inherited a program mired in scandal. Baylor forward Patrick Dennehy was murdered by teammate Carlton Dotson during an argument, and ensuing investigations revealed that then-coach Dave Bliss attempted to avoid NCAA violations by claiming Dennehy was dealing drugs in order to pay his tuition.
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