http://www.si.com/basketball/2013/12/18/steve-lavin-gene-keady-st-johns
"When I called him back [the next day] I said, 'What's it going to take?'" Lavin recalls. "He had a certain financial amount he asked for and then a supply of Maker's Mark, good Cuban cigars and a driver and help with housing. He goes, 'If you can do that, I'm in.'"