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[QUOTE="Yukon, post: 4091253, member: 8044"]
Promoting from within will only work if you have the players on your roster to immediately win for whomever gets elevated. Unless you are Duke or Kentucky a new coach isn’t going to instantly take in amazing talent. It took two years and a national championship for Ollie to start recruiting at a high level and then he stopped caring. It’s bizarre to think that an assistant with no experience will have better success with this roster than a HOF coach. Can he weather two seasons of under .500 ball after following a legend? I would bet not.

Also, you know how you placate the former players? You offer GMAC associate head coach and bring in another alum for DBOp. We have one former player on our staff and the alumni damage of the Ollie debacle has been pretty much healed. Former players will get over one of their pals getting passed over pretty easily. It’s much messier if they get fired.

Finally, as a fan of a team that competes for supremacy in the same region and for many of the same recruits I’d LOVE to see someone with no experience elevated to one of the premier jobs (no sarcasm) in the nation. I’d HATE to have someone like Nate Oats in our backyard.
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