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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 569048, member: 716"]
In the monopoly money world I think I'd like Izzo. Maybe Tom Crean (assuming for a second that his episode on Sunday never happened and he's not in fact deranged).
 
In reality, Hopkins. (I do think he'd be that guy with a .690 winning percentage, a sprinkling of NITs, but more frequent Elite Eights and Final Fours than Boeheim.)
 
Regarding Stevens, I really don't know how recognizable he'd be to the high school set. I like that he's young, but he doesn't have the cache of a lot of more experienced coaches. (And more important, I have no idea what relationships he has with high school coaches or AAU people.) And I really do think Boeheim's freelancing reputation appeals strongly to our bread-and-butter recruits from East Coast cities. Don't know that we'd be able to win with Midwestern kids (it'd be tough to get them away from Midwestern schools, anyhow), and I don't know if our Baltimore and Philadelphia kids would be so keen on Syracuse if it became another program with strictly-regimented offensive sets and a more deliberate style. (Again, those are all "don't know"s - maybe such a change would be great. It'd be dramatic, though, and I don't think that's what we need.)
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