Carousel Tuesday continues with a few revelations...Georgia has offered and targeted Missouri's Mike Anderson as their Number One to fill the Dennis Felton spot. The offer is in the neighborhood of $2-million per season.
"Georgia hasn't offered him the job," Jimmy Sexton told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I wish they had. They haven't said the job is his."
Anderson, who had a 65-35 record in three seasons at Missouri, has an $850,000 salary this year. Missouri athletic director Mike Alden is scheduled to meet with the coach in Columbia, Mo., on Tuesday and is prepared to offer a five-year contract extension that would pay Anderson about $1.3 million per season, according to sources.
Anderson ((pictured, thanks Ronald Martinez/Getty)) also is believed to be a potential candidate for the Memphis job if John Calipari leaves to become Kentucky's new coach.
Add UTEP's Tony Barbee to that mix as well, and the name that those of us at OSG HQ are holding on to until the presser in Lexington.
"All of these opportunities have their pluses and minuses," Sexton told the Journal-Constitution. "He's got it turned around at Missouri. He's got great players there now. Memphis is a great situation and Mike has connections there. Georgia appears to want to make a commitment to basketball and Damon probably has the most to offer. But Georgia hasn't won consistently over the years and you wonder what the reason is for that.
"He's in a sorting out process right now."
What about other candidates should Anderson not make it to Athens...?
Apparently, Butler's Barry Stevens is out there as is Sean Miller at Xavier and Jeff Capel at Oklahoma. Bobby Knight would give the school the cheap pop it needs, but Michael Adams would have none of Knight's shenanigans.
Choice "C" may be a hard one for Bulldog fans to swallow...
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