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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 5269715, member: 40"]
Just to clarify, I was advocating doing proper due diligence to identify the best possible candidate.

I didn't like the idea of limiting our options by "keeping it in the family," because the three top candidates in that smaller pool were all undesirable:
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[*]Hopkins flopped at UW
[*]Gerry had no head coaching experience
[*]Red had no head coaching experience
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Now that Red was the choice, I don't want to see him fail.  Red is one of my all-time favorite SU players, so while I didn't want him to be the choice because I didn't think he had the best qualifications, and was concerned that he would just be an extension of the former HC, who had run the program into the ground with Red as the Associate HC -- I am 100% behind him now.

And I'm sad to see aspects of what I was concerned about vis a vis his coaching acumen becoming evident as problems in year 2.  But there won't be any "told you so" sentiment from me -- I really, really, really want Red to succeed, and our program to get back to the level it belongs.
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