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Message: [QUOTE="Irishsecra1, post: 5336511, member: 8453"] The way JB was awkwardly let go/retired made a national search too difficult and problematic. AA got the job purely because he was next in line, not because they thought he would be a tremendous head coach. Though they had good reason to believe he was a very good recruiter.They just didn’t know what kind of coach he would be. I doubt if Gerry was even considered, despite JB’s believed preference. The optics alone would have looked terrible promoting Gerry over Red. And at that point Gerry had nothing to show that he would have been a much better hire. I personally thought he would have been the better choice back then because of the intangibles I thought he would bring. I thought if nothing else his teams would work hard and never give up. And that is exactly what the Siena team is now. But no one could blame JW for hiring AA . [/QUOTE]