It was reported that VTs coach had already met with UK before the NCAA game with Marshall. It was a no brainer that she was the leading candidate.
I agree that KC will have lots of people come calling if she continues to thrive at MU. The money isn't always the thing no matter what they pay. UK's attendance is less than 3k per game in 20,000 seat arena (#56 nationally) and ranks 12th in SEC. From Feb 1 on MU averaged nearly as many fans as UK. If she were to consider leaving at some point, I believe it would come down to her not being able to recruit at Marshall to the level she needs to move MU to close to the top tier.
I firmly believe we were a top 50 program at end of year. Any team we lost to before VT I believe we would have beaten in a rematch. During the SB tourney I was thinking maybe it would be better in year one to make a deep run in the WBIT. After VT, I believe it was much better to play in NCAAs and a program like VT. MTSU was #37ish NET and won a game in rd one as an 11 seed. We were not far from them IMO. The goal over next few years is to try and get us to be a NET in the low 30's or 20's. That would be somewhere between MTSU and Gonzaga and at least get you in good at large territory. Remember that according to reports, the NCAA will likely begin giving monetary units to leagues like the men get (albeit less money).
As far as SBC goes three of top 4 were newbies (MU, JMU, ODU). ULM, Troy, Appy, etc have good coaches. A record 6 SBC women's team made it to postseason. JMU lost at home to a good Stong Brook team (25-3?) in rd one of WBIT. Three SB teams in sweet 16 of NIT which says SBC doing ok with schools in the 100-150 NET range and beyond but the league needs to step up scheduling and recruiting and have more top 100 programs. Despite what ODU/JMU coaches have said, the SBC needs to play and beat more quality teams.