Ed Cooley - 23 Who Made a Difference in 2023 in Rhode Island

Ed Cooley - 23 Who Made a Difference in 2023 in Rhode Island

In the winter of 2023, the marketing at Providence College featured Ed Cooley and pitched "Friartown" and “Family.”

But while the marketing for the College featured Cooley, he was in the midst of packing up and leaving.

Sportswriters covering the Providence College men’s basketball team began asking questions about rumors that Friars Coach Cooley was headed to Georgetown University in mid-March — a week or so before his departure became public.

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But a real estate disclosure form unveiled by GoLocal and signed by Cooley in preparation for the sale of his East Greenwich home unveils that the Cooleys were preparing to sell their home even weeks earlier.

The disclosure form is a document required to be completed by sellers.

Cooley’s departure reminded everyone that college basketball is a business dominated by multi-million contracts for millionaire coaches and, more recently, big-time payments via NIL to top-tier players.

So much for the lifetime contracts.

Skip the taglines; college basketball is "moneytown" first and foremost.