That would be a great get.
Its way too earily for head coach announcement. Team needs to be awarded first then a GM then the head coach gets hired,
I wouldn't think much about it. Trotz just won the long awaited cup and it smells much more like retirement than another coaching job.
Perhaps, powerstruck, but IMO in light of the developments yesterday it would seem to me a must that the Seattle bid at a bare minimum get him on board ASAP. Seattle fans have historically responded well to the teams here hiring championship-caliber coaches/managers - see the Mariners when they hired Piniella, the Sonics, albeit lukewarmly at first IIRC when they hired Karl, the Seahawks when they hired Holmgren and the Sounders when they hired Schmid. And there is something else to also consider here. Tippett may not exactly want the coaching job.
As I noted off this thread in some PM's on this subject over the past week with one of our regular BoH board posters, the hiring of Tippett to me is not entirely a surprise. Good hire, yes, but not entirely a surprise - as the linked story noted, Tippett's daughter, son-in-law and grandkids live up this way, over on the Kitsap Peninsula in the Bremerton area, which for those unaware is a big Navy area with the naval shipyard downtown then the sub base out at Bangor about 20 minutes north up Highway 3 (IOW, what does her husband do for a living - is he part of that at all, just curious...). So if Coach Tippett has to move up here or decides to do so anyway as part of his new responsibilities, depending on which area of the peninsula his daughter and family live in, he should be able to find decently priced houses within close proximity, and if he has to commute into Seattle for anything (i.e., has to have an office in downtown Seattle as opposed to working from home perhaps initially), there's a new rapid-ride ferry between Bremerton and the Colman Dock terminal in downtown Seattle that traverses that route in around 30 minutes if the damn thing is operating (they have had some hiccups with service on that boat in the past several months since the thing started last year). Otherwise, it's 60 minutes each direction on the main ferry and it has good Wi-Fi as far as I know so he'll never be out of the loop despite being on the water.
And at his age, he might be more inclined now especially now with the gig he's going to be doing for them to strike a stronger family/job balance meaning coaching, with all the time demands associated with it, might not be in his plans anymore. We'll see, but I would think that's going to perhaps be a bigger focus for him now with this than anything else.