Knicks411
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You can’t turn down a job you weren’t offered. Claiming you turned it down is a lie. Period.
The more likely scenario is that Providence made an offer, it was over market, and we didn’t want to match or escalate. So if the primary driver is money (and for an agent it always is), then the writing is on the wall.
But you have to be offered to turns something down. He wasn’t.
The other thing to consider is that there may have been a major gap between BH and other Providence candidates and if we were taking our time to offer, then it’s pretty clear we had other comparable (from our perspective) candidates. For them, their eggs may have been firmly in his basket, which makes you have to pay up.
I think there’s agent wiggle room between “turning down Syracuse” and “turning down the job”. I have to imagine the vast majority of the time the actual job offer is only made when you know the guy is going to say yes. If there’s mutual interest between the two parties and the coach says I’m looking for at least X to coach and the school says .8x is the best we can do and the coach decides to move on I think an agent can pretty fairly leak he turned them down.
But I mean, also, agents can lie.
If I’m talking to a girl and ask her what she’s doing next Friday and she says she’s washing her hair and I run away crying she can both say she turned me down and I can say I didn’t ask her out.
