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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 5680361, member: 210"] If he can bring in the talent then so be it... but I really hope someone asks him what he will do differently in terms of systems from Washington to make sure the same result doesn't happen at Syracuse. People can and do learn from their mistakes... but a very common interview question is "Give me an example of a time you failed and what you learned from it". Can we please ask it and maybe if he gets hired have him explain it to the fanbase? My main concern with ADJW making this hire is that he fell for OINF and gave Babers an insane extension, although at the time I guess the entire fanbase demanded that he give it. I also see a lot of marketing gimmick around Mr DART, but I don't see a system that elevates the talent that Fran is bringing in... in fact it has been the opposite as both the offense and defense seem dependent on having elite college talent at key positions to have any chance of success. ADJW also seems to have fallen for Autry's "orange standard", "level 5" nonsense... I really want to know, was there a real interview process for Autry? Did anyone ask him what his offensive philosophy was or what his defensive strategy was besides play hard and stay in front of your man? Because man, in the first two years there didn't seem to be anything beyond rolling the ball out and playing hard. The defense was a bit better this year, but he lost the team so who knows... but the offensive strategy is about the level of what I rolled out when I coached my daughter's 11 year olds team at the Y. I really really hope that there is an actual tactical interview this time around and it's not just about fund raising. Where JB excelled is he had a system that you could plug and play different levels of talent into and there was generally very little variance in performance... the floor was relatively high. Now at some point the he needed to evolve his system to the modern game and he gave a half hearted attempt a it but the talent difference between us and our opponents became too large for any system to overcome. And here we are. [/QUOTE]

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