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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4093558, member: 40"]
What would be crazy is promoting an AC who has zero offers to be a head coach in 30+ years of being an assistant coach.  Even more stark:  combined, Red and GMac have ZERO head coaching offers.

That's one indication of them not being qualified.

The ONLY reason to hire from within is in the interest of continuity -- to sustain things that are going well.  Anyone who wants continuity with the status quo needs their head examined.  Not attempting to reverse this multi-year trend of decline would be what's crazy.

What this program needs is new blood and an influx of new ideas, not a perpetuation of mediocrity, limiting ourselves to a talent pool of under qualified candidates who are no trick ponies in the sense that they would likely continue the same systems, only with neither of them being in JB's league in terms of X's and O's.

I love those two for all of their contributions to the program, as both players and head coaches.  But if they are the best we can do, we're in trouble.  Remember when many posters were proclaiming how excited they were about Hop being the next man up?  Good thing we avoided that lead balloon by having him go outside the cozy amniotic sack of Syracuse basketball to test his mettle.
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