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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 4153475, member: 966"] Tell me if i'm off-base here, but i assume this would be true for two primary reasons, neither of which are indications of their potential to be successful head coaches: 1) No (other) AD wants to commit his program to be a zone-exclusive team; 2) When you're part of a staff of all alums at a major program, and where the current head coach is 'old,' the presumption might be that the best candidate from that school might feel he's the presumptive successor. Why make an offer or even shortlist him? Unless there are obvious extenuating circumstances, like with Hopkins and his father/family geography? But, none of that means our guys won't be great here, and none of that means other ADs don't think very highly of our guys. I'm not one of those guys clamoring for Mike to return. I think it's a matter of some people believing it's going to be Red or Gerry, and they'd prefer Hopkins instead, because there aren't any other candidates from the outside being mentioned... other than the relative unlikelihood of poaching Oats. So, 'wanting' Hopkins is a mix of actually believing in his potential, given different circumstances, and basically liking him versus a field of un-named. Which is a reasonable line of thinking. Essentially, we had Hopkins, Red, and GMac, and Hopkins was assessed to be the best of them, and now, even without 'success' at UDub, he still has the same mind as the one that was assessed as being better/more ready than Red/GMac, and now he also has experience in the role. There are two ways to think about it (at least two ways...). Either Hopkins proved that he isn't that good, or he's the same person who was determined to be the right person to hand the keys to and he still has that same potential [B][I]in our scenario[/I][/B]. [/QUOTE]

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