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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4152932, member: 40"] This isn't a knock on your opinion -- you're entitled to it. But would it surprise you to know that JW's short list a few years ago was Oats and Hopkins, and that Oats was viewed as the more desirable option? And that was when Hopkins appeared to be slaying it. Neither Red nor Gerry were being considered, and I find it doubtful that they would be now. Wildhack is aiming higher, and neither of them has garnered any consideration outside of our program. Both have a grand total of zero offers to be a head coach at the collegiate level. Fast forward to now / today -- Oats might be unattainable, and Hopkins may have coached himself out of contention. So I'd expect Wildhack to not be married to internal candidates, just like he wasn't before, and for him to do due diligence to come up with a new list of guys. Might Hopkins be on that list? Sure. But there is no reason whatsoever for the AD to artificially restrict the candidate pool to in-house candidates -- ESPECIALLY given the slippage of the program over the last 7+ years. We need to reverse that trend, and the way to do it isn't to hire less qualified facsimiles of the current head coach, because the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. You want Hop, and you aren't deterred by his performance at UW. I'm concerned that his performance at UW over a multi-year span of decline might be a true indication of his abilities as a head coach. You say that you prefer a recruiter over an X's and O's guy. I say that's a false dichotomy -- why not get a a coach who can do both? Instead of hiring a veteran former head coach as an AC to help a head coach who needs that type of support to be successful, why don't we just hire a coach who has a proven track record of success? And while we're at it, maybe get someone who is more in tune with modern trends in college basketball, instead of somebody who will just emulate what we're already doing? [/QUOTE]

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