I don’t think anyone melted down when they hired Dave. People were generally good with it, I think. Maybe that’s a lesson that fans don’t always know whether a hire is good or bad.NYGFan_Section208 wrote: ↑2 years ago...just like last time?TruePoint wrote: ↑2 years ago“Settle for Miller or Mack”NYGFan_Section208 wrote: ↑2 years ago
Yes. Still hoping like a madman. Shoot for the best and if we have to settle for a Miller or Mack, so be it.
This fanbase is fully delusional.
What’s going to end up happening is that we are going to make a good solid hire and people are going to meltdown about it. Can’t wait.
When URI hired Dan, I think fans were pretty excited but that was primarily because of his last name. Before he became a candidate for our job, I think very few of our fans even knew he was coaching at Wagner. If his name was Dan Smith and not Dan Hurley, how many people here would have been excited about it at the time? I don’t think much of Dan’s success here was due to his name as much as his skills and his personality.
I’m not saying that I should choose the next coach because frankly I have no idea who it should be - I don’t even know who is interested and I’m not interviewing them and it isn’t my job to evaluate them. But I feel like all of our fans would do well to recognize that they don’t necessarily know who is available to us and how well they’ll do. We can assume that Pitino or Miller would do well here but we have no idea about the feasibility of that happening or the interest in either direction.
Ultimately our ability to bring in a coach that the entire fan base knows already may not really be up to us. If it ends up being a name not everyone here knows, it could still end up being a great hire. It could be Dan Hurley, only this time it may sound like “Dan Smith” to the fans. I wish our fans would have the maturity to accept that but I also recognize that, like I said, that doesn’t appear to be where we are at as a fanbase right now and that’s too bad.