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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 5283223, member: 40"] In actuality, what's fantasyland is pretending that there were constraints that delimited the choice, when in fact there were none. What's fantasyland is pretending that prioritizing "nice to have" evaluative criteria was more important than "need to have" factors, such as a proven track record of being a successful coach. Pretending that we had to hire from within is a rationalization that some people told themselves to feel better about transitioning away from Boeheim. Hiring someone with connections to our program from within was "inevitable," "reality," and an AD "rule" ... until it wasn't. See: football. And now, the program is paying the price for making a terrible hire, and artificially limiting the pool of candidates to alums. And much like Hopkins got exposed at UW for not being able to coach offense, Red is showing many of the same weaknesses / gaps. Go figure. [/QUOTE]