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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2993765, member: 780"]
Have you noticed any connection between the performance in the last five years and our entry into the ACC, the impact of NCAA sanctions and players unexpectedly leaving early or not coming at all? Could it be that JB's aging has nothing to do with this? Or that given all that has gone on it would be impossible to figure out how much of this downturn in record is due to JB at all?

Seems to me in watching these coaching changes, they all follow the same pattern. When Gary Williams was retiring, the boosters identified the ideal candidate ... Mike Brey. A DC area guy with ties to DeMatha high school. How could he not be interested? (He wasn't.)

The Georgetown people wanted Shaka Smart. (He wouldn't return their phone call.)

I think the job is much less attractive than some on here. The biggest barrier coming in is re-tooling the team from the JB approach to a different one. Unless we get someone who is a JB -clone (and we might so that) we are going to have a significant period of transition until the new coach gets his system installed and recruits the players to run it.

Then there's the recruiting problem as JB gets in the last year or two and cannot tell recruits hen is going to be here for their entire career.

Then there's the ACC problem. Can we catch UNC or Duke? Or will a coach coming in be faced with a ceiling of finishing third or fourth in the ACC best case?
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