BigZiti09
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Just a difference of opinion I guess. I've leaned that money can get you lots of things in college sports, if we had decided to pony up $4 million for a coach and make a statement we could have. Indiana was in MESS that dwarfed our situation, but made a great hire in Crean.
Once again, timing. Not agreeing with it but understand the AD thinking. At the time I believe we were paying multiple buyouts already and the NCAA was sniffing around. Our roster was depleted and you'd be replacing a rock star. If I'm a college coach, there's other schools out there that would match dollars and hire me and I'm not walking into that mess. We would have had to overpay substantially to get a top flight coach.
Basketball is a little different in that you can win at lots of places so coaches aren't as easily enticed to move.