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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4093823, member: 40"]
If you accept the imaginary criteria you are claiming as fact ["Syracuse is a school that doesn't like radical change" -- whatever that means], then I understand how you might come to that conclusion.

But the reality of the situation is that we are in uncharted waters.  Nobody can claim the "precedent" card as a predictive component of how things might unfold.

Because facing facts, we have not had a head coaching change in five decades [rounding up].  Nobody knows what evaluative criteria will be emphasized, what direction we'll go, or what the AD will do.

But I see a lot of people pretending that "precedent" matters, when we are discussing a change that hasn't occurred in 45+ years.  Or espousing what the financial limitations are, just because JB has been okay accepting a salary that has been far below market value.  Or that we need to hire from within because it worked with the previous hire, 45 years ago, when both the "business" of college athletics and SU's place in said market were both immensely different [and smaller] than where things fall today.

I also think that people view JW as being weak, and not a numbers driven business man.  I find it impossible to believe that a seasoned, accomplished senior executive would look at the options available and decide that the best course of action is to artificially delimit the search to two candidates that nobody else has wanted to date.  That's not how someone rises to the top ranks of business leadership, and not how I expect JW to approach this.

Again, no offense to Red / GMac.
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