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[QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 5736041, member: 237"]
You have to be lucky sometimes. UConn got the right hire and then had a monster recruit fall into their laps because he was literally right in their back yard. They found a gem in Murray. There was no foresight with all that. The only thing was that Hurley the nut job also was the far more competitive and passionate Hurley of the bunch as it played out.

Gerry is insanely competitive and also another internal hire. My hope and early optimism is that we got lucky that he is getting the nod despite all the other concerns around it being too incestuous. Different path to get there but hopefully a similar outcome in getting someone who is just different. That article by Carlson shared a little more of what I think everyone will see. My hope is we backed into success with Gerry just like we backed into success with bringing him on board 23 years ago. All the other options were intriguing but the guy with the closest drive and push to succeed to that nut over at UConn I think was quite close all this time.

So our expectations should be we win and win a lot and rekindle what should never have faded. As optimistic as I might be getting , I’m going to be just as critical if this flops early as there is no excuse to miss on the opportunity here.
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