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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1550967, member: 780"] This is not the easy decision that some on here suggest. HCSS has not been an unmitigated failure, ala GROB. This year’s team has some talent and they certainly play hard both of which reflect well on the coaching staff. So in order to fire HCSS --- given the several year disruption that coaching changes always seem to entail --- you have to be pretty sure that you are going to be able to both identify and hire someone who will be a significant upgrade. I have little patience for those on here who just assume this is going to be easy. I see it as a very high risk proposition for SU. If HCSS is replaced, my solution would be for the school to show some real imagination and real courage Getting SU into the upper echelon of the ACC is going to be a very difficult job. We just will be unable to do it without a really superior head coach and coaching staff. SU isn't going to get any of the top obvious, low-risk, “hot” candidates. There are too many current openings and other schools with more resources and fewer innate challenges facing a new coach Think of O'Leary at CFL or Bobby Knight at TTU. Or Larry Brown at SMU. These guys were highly-likely to be successful at some level. And in even in these schools, the dissenting voices --- and I'm sure there must have been many --- have to be told to . Why not “The Vest”, who also was an Asst Coach at SU previously. Under Cantor there would be no chance that any one with any controversy would be selected. But if the new crew is really serious about this …. The more people involved in the decision, the less likely there will be any controversy what-so-ever. And the more likely this safe, consensus choice will not be as imaginative as it has to be to be successful. GRob is the perfect example ... impeccable resume, great recommendations and "looked the part". [/QUOTE]

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