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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 5659147, member: 40"]
When ADJW made the difficult choice to force JB to finally step down, the hard part was in the rear view mirror.  Unfortunately, he and certain members of the BoT absolutely BLEW IT by hiring an undequalified candidate in Autry at a time when the program was in a precarious position after a near-decade of decline under Boeheim.

People will say that JW had "no choice," or that Boeheim would have thrown a tantrum if we'd gone outside of the program.  I say, so what?  He would have had a tantrum, and then it would have been over, they would have given him the same job he has, and the band aid would have been ripped off.

Instead, the program has declined even further, we have the worst coach of any P4 school, and fan apathy is at an all time high.  It is an expensive lesson -- the path of least resistance might be "easiest," but when you hire someone unqualified in a performance-driven role, failure is the most likely outcome.

This whole thing was botched from the start.  You don't artificially constrain the candidate pool.  You don't hire an inexperienced "captain" when the ship is floudering.  And you don't install someone with no proven track record, and make a continuity hire, when performance is already poor.

Red is one of our own.  He's a very nice guy.  He is a very good assistant coach.  But hopefully this is an object lesson of what NOT to do when it comes to making hires.
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