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[QUOTE="ClamOtto, post: 1369447, member: 368"]
Loyalty is nice but basketball is big business and winning trumps all.  That said, I think Hop should get the job.  As CTO said, he's an incredible recruiter and could potentially continue the best of the JB era while still being open to new things.  Another reality that folks might not like to accept is that, while Syracuse is a high-profile big-name basketball program, recruiting people to work at the university is a huge challenge (this applies both to athletics and academics).  Compensation is often low relative to peers and - fairly or not - the city is most known for bad weather and rust belt decay.  It's hard to overcome that reputation and we're probably being naive to think that every head coach in America is dying to come here.

I also think it's laughable that college and pro teams are always looking for head coaching experience.  That's fine, but it usually means they'll take highly unsuccessful former head coaches over successful assistants, which doesn't make much sense to me.
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