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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 4594637, member: 229"]
I have not done my due diligence and don't follow college hoops (outside of Syracuse) anymore the way I follow college football.  This does not take into account trends that I would normally analyze to death - like records and recruiting.  So I'm not picking any under the radar guys.

If you believe Syracuse to be the blue blood football equivalent to traditional powers ask yourself what they would do.  How would they think and what action would they take to get their guy.  Nebraska for example hiring Ruhle and his coordinators.  I get it that many schools promote from within (Ohio State football or Duke hoops), but trending downward schools don't do that.

I'd contact these guys and ask them if they're interested then lets talk.

Scott Drew - Baylor
Nate Oats - Alabama
Eric Musselman - Arkansas
Sean Miller - Xavier
Shaka Smart - Marquette

Smart I'm a little shaky on but I've wondered how he would do given an ACC job.

There are a million reasons why and why not but I don't want to get into them because nobody knows anything until that phone call is made.  I'm not a 'why not' guy, I'm a tell me how we're going to make it work and get it done guy.  and for all the reasons 'why not', I have a pile of reason 'why.  I would concede that Syracuse should probably be concerned about hiring guys who break rules.

And one thing I know about coaches, they will listen to opportunities and they have big egos.  Some guys like comfort and will stay put.  Other guys like new challenges.

By the way I did find a guy who's killing it in his first job.  Tom Landry Arizona, but maybe that's a product of the team he inherited from Miller.

Fortune favors the bold.
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