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[QUOTE="CU44SE, post: 4592957, member: 2196"]
I understand this is not apples to apples. But does anyone remember when we hired SS because we tried to keep continuity instead of doing a real national search?

If Jim stepped down several years ago before these past 2 seasons (rock bottom) then I would still be against it because I want a national search, Best candidate possible. But it would be understandable. Now we are at Rock bottom giving a coach who has never been a coach before reigns to a top 10 program in a bad situarion. Now, if Red fails how many years does he get to turn it around?  If he flames out after 3-4 years we are now looking at 13 years of poor performance. That becomes even harder to overcome and attract a big time coach.

I think this would be a terrible decision to hand the program over to an inexperienced coach and could set us back a decade, not just years.

Gate, Traynor, FLJ all have something in common. They were all head coaches before coming back home to Syracuse.  Gate has been training for years in the wings to become a head coach for the men and has the clout to back it up.  Red is nothing like gate in that sense. This would be unprecedented to me to give the program to a guy that has only been an assistant coach at Va tech and the worst part of Jim’s Syracuse career. What exactly did he do as an assistant?  Recruiting has never been worse and the skill level on the court has never been worse.  I am not saying that is all his fault. But I’m not exactly sure what he has actually done to get this position other than play at Syracuse University?  Who cares about keeping the team together or what Jim wanted.  Forgoing a national search could be devastating to this program.

PS. I hope I’m wrong. Just don’t see the positives of hiring red without any type of search.
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