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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 3699918, member: 40"]
So, not sure if we are on the same page based on that.

I love Hopkins and I'm appreciative of his contributions to the program -- as a player AND a coach.  He looked early on at UW like the one who got away, but I think you have to look at both halves of his four year tenure there and question whether he's got the chops.  Objectively speaking, there have to be questions about that at this point.  People can say that if he came back east, had the advantages of being at an established program like ours, etc. that he'd be fine -- but this is a performance based profession, and his last two years have been flat out awful.  Not average -- terrible.

I also don't share your opinion that Red "deserves" the opportunity.  Why?  Red's one of my favorite all time players -- I still have a #15 script jersey from when he played, for the record -- but why does he "deserve" it?  Is he a highly coveted commodity as a HC?  No... nobody has ever offered him a head coaching role.  Has he ever really landed any elite recruits?  I just don't see it.

But I don't want to argue -- those are just my opinions.
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