- Feb 10, 2021
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Jay Clark to LIU is HILARIOUS!
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While I really don’t care for Jay Clark, I kind of love this for him given the way things went down with him the first time around with UGA.I've heard from two different people who said deals were essentially in place prior to nationals. But LSU winning changed things, and LSU is willing to match what Georgia was offering Clark, Griffith, and McCool. So all three decided to stay put in Baton Rouge. Georgia feels blindsided that they decided to remain at LSU.
I literally don't understand why they would even have thought that Jay would go to them. Even if they hadn't won nationals this year they have been highly successful and he has top recruits lined up for years to come. He would have to be a fool to leave that to go back to the people who fired him. And Jay does not strike me as a fool.I hope that Georgia had a plan B. Seems like they put all their eggs in the LSU staff basket.
It's hard for me to buy that they were blindsided. Do they think coaches want to coach there? Even if they hadn't won the national title, it would have been crazy to leave LSU.I've heard from two different people who said deals were essentially in place prior to nationals. But LSU winning changed things, and LSU is willing to match what Georgia was offering Clark, Griffith, and McCool. So all three decided to stay put in Baton Rouge. Georgia feels blindsided that they decided to remain at LSU.
Georgia was apparently ready to throw a million dollars a year at him. That's almost 4 times what he makes at LSU. It would have made him the highest paid coach in gymnastics.I literally don't understand why they would even have thought that Jay would go to them. Even if they hadn't won nationals this year they have been highly successful and he has top recruits lined up for years to come. He would have to be a fool to leave that to go back to the people who fired him. And Jay does not strike me as a fool.
Someone posted some info on Reddit yesterday that made the idea sound more plausible. The main points were: Clark spent 19 years working at UGA, which, with finishing his career there, would line him up well for a nice retirement package. He is also from Georgia apparently. While his wife is from Louisiana, they divorced last year, so add in some personal ties to Georgia and one fewer recently from Louisiana.I literally don't understand why they would even have thought that Jay would go to them. Even if they hadn't won nationals this year they have been highly successful and he has top recruits lined up for years to come. He would have to be a fool to leave that to go back to the people who fired him. And Jay does not strike me as a fool.