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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5704608, member: 173"] Iona was a way for an extremely successful but disgraced coach to rehabilitate his career. That’s a world of difference from being an early stepping stone for a young coach - and going from one MAAC school to another is a terrible idea. And we’ve mocked Boston College for being the 6th or 7th most important team in Boston - which equals no press coverage. Iona is somewhere around the 33rd most important team in NYC. They may have better press coverage than Siena - but if they do, I was never aware of it when I lived in NYC. The problem at Penn State is not money. It is wrestling and hockey. Wrestling is always a top five program, have 14 national championships, and sell out every match. Hockey has top flight facilities, a top 10 program with championship aspirations every year, and the #1 recruit this year. The school can throw all the money at basketball they want to - but it would need to be in the top 15 for people to pay attention. Otherwise they’ll just focus on wrestling and hockey. Top recruits aren’t going to want to go there to play third fiddle to the star wrestlers and hockey players on campus. And counting on busses from Scranton taking the 2.5 hr drive on a Tuesday night to fill up the arena feels like an unwise gamble. I think guys not particularly familiar with State College see all the money Penn State has and thinks they can be successful in basketball. What I keep saying as someone familiar with State College is that there is no analog culturally to it. Nobody has TWO sports that matter more than basketball in winter. No one will have sustained success of more than a year or two there - taking that job is a high risk gamble. You’d need to do what Shrewsberry did - have your exit strategy planned before you even take the job, knowing you won’t be there more than two years. Three tops. For all the downsides of Boston College, it is a vastly better job than Penn State. PSU is absolutely the worst job in P4 and is in the running for worst in D1. [/QUOTE]

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