PSU works with Rhoades as coach; VCU eyes Odom

9:24 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Penn State has actually hired VCU’s Mike Rhoades as the school’s new guys’s

basketball coach.Penn State

revealed Wednesday that its board of trustees has approved a seven-year agreement for Rhoades, who will make$25.9 million in overall warranties and can make just over$1 million in additional incentives.Penn State vice president of sports Patrick Kraft stated Wednesday in a statement that Rhoades is a” tested winner at numerous levels”and “an incredible recruiter and skill developer throughout his profession.”Sources told ESPN that Rhoades notified the VCU team of his choice throughout a conference Wednesday afternoon. As the drama over Rhoades leaving played out the previous couple of days,

VCU quietly ran a search to change him and was taking the last actions Wednesday to work with Utah State’s Ryan Odom, sources informed ESPN.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated A deal for Odom to become the Rams ‘next coach is anticipated to come together in the coming days. VCU athletic director Ed McLaughlin has spoken with several

candidates in the past

few days in

preparation of Rhoades leaving for Penn State, according to sources.Rhoades has continued the recent custom of consistent success at VCU, which is extensively considered the very best job in the Atlantic 10. The Rams have reached the NCAA tournament in 3 of the previous four years the event has

been held, and Rhoades is 129-61 in six seasons at VCU.Rhoades would change Micah Shrewsberry, who left for Notre Dame and will be formally introduced Thursday. Shrewsberry led Penn State to the NCAA competition for the very first time given that 2011 and the school’s first tournament triumph given that 2001.” We will be bold, various and aggressive moving our program forward, “Rhoades said in a statement launched by the school. “We will play with excellent energy and enjoyment while always being relentless in our pursuit of making this basketball household into something special.

I can’t wait to get to work.”The hire of Rhoades would be a substantial one, as he has reached as lots of NCAA tournaments at VCU in the previous four years as Penn State has in the past 20 years. The danger for Rhoades is that he’s leaving what is considered a high-end basketball job for a Penn State task that’s thought about among the lower-end positions in the Big Ten.Rhoades was making almost $1.7 million at VCU and is expected to be able to almost double that at Penn State. It would mark yet another big hire for the Big 10, which, along with the SEC, has actually profited of rewarding television contracts in current years.Before VCU, Rhoades worked 3 years as the head coach at Rice, where he went 23-12 in his last season before being employed by the Rams. It marked a return to VCU for Rhoades, who was an associate head coach there from 2009 to 2014 under Shaka Smart.Odom’s ties to the mid-Atlantic were a big attraction in him emerging as the top prospect, as he has worked as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech and American and as the head coach at UMBC. While at UMBC, he coached the Retrievers in the first distressed by a No. 16 seed over a No. 1 seed in males’s NCAA competition history, toppling top-seeded Virginia in March 2018. Odom and McLaughlin interacted at American in the early 2000s,

when McLaughlin worked as an associate athletic director and Odom as an assistant coach for Jeff Jones from 2000 to 2003. ESPN’s Jeff Borzello contributed to this report.