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[QUOTE="ForCuseSake, post: 2973951, member: 266"]
In no particular order...

UNC
Duke
Kansas
Kentucky
UCLA
Michigan
Villanova
Michigan St.
Indiana
Louisville

This is obviously subjective.  Some of the criteria that I used were fan support, program history, AD support/investment in program, national stature.

I don't think anyone can argue UK, KU, UNC and Duke are all superior coaching jobs to SU.

UCLA and Indiana are once proud "franchises" that have fallen on difficult times but have proven capable of reaching a final four across different generations with different coaching staffs.  I can see why some would argue SU is better but these jobs don't have the added burden of replacing a legend that SU does (that goes against SU IMO).

Michigan is rolling in cash and has history equal to SU.  It's a national brand with tremendous fan support and multiple coaches have taken it to a FF.  MSU is also a national brand with multiple titles won by different coaches.  Ditto Louisville and Villanova (multiple titles won by different coaches over different eras).

I tried to look at it from a coaching candidates point of view.  Assuming the next coach doesn't completely crater the program (i.e. Grob) then I think replacing JB's replacement is likely a top 10 job (also assuming we're still drawing 20k to games).
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