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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 5696845, member: 8594"]
The broken part of the program was that we weren’t recruiting.  That’s really the depth of it.  There was belief that Red could pick up that slack.  To that point, Red did do a better job of recruiting and embracing the transfer portal, just maybe not good enough.  His on-court coaching/player development was just, frankly, really bad.  Which was a Red thing, not a system thing.  Naturally, that’s the risk of promoting an assistant coach; you just don’t know.

An outside hire might’ve looked better.  People might’ve felt better about it, but I don’t think there’s really a proven way to hire a ‘proven’ coach and correlate that to success. Continuity hires sometimes work out and sometimes don’t.  Winning coaches sometimes go somewhere new and keep winning, sometimes they don’t.  Other than feeling better, I don’t think there was a safe option.  An outside hire could tank a flailing program the same way a continuity hire could and I don’t think the chance of that happening is very different between the two options.
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