As you may have heard on our podcast, Nate James is a candidate for the Austin Peay job and now it looks like he’ll get it the News & Observer is reporting that James and Austin Peay are “close to finalizing” a deal.
He’s negotiating with AD Gerald Harrison, who spent a decade at Duke.
It’s an interesting move.
Austin Peay is basically a basketball school. It’s most famous player was Fly Williams. When he was there, the chant was “the Fly’s wide open, let’s go Peay!
Peay is pronounced as if it had no Y, in case you missed that.