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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 5272018, member: 40"] Not sure. Following up after a legend is always difficult. But one way to suppress the chance of it going smoothly is to limit the candidate pool, and focus on the wrong evaluative criteria [such as ties to the program being essential vs. a "nice to have"], or hiring someone with no experience instead of a proven coach when the program needed a massive overhaul to get things back on track. I'm guessing that at that point, with Hop doing well in Washington [at that point in time], and Wildhack being new, that he would almost certainly have gone outside the program and conducted a broad search. It would have been an early career defining hire -- and Wildhack would have felt less pressure to keep it in-house. But to your point, we'll never know. [/QUOTE]