bigappleram wrote:Right now the only place Preston is a candidate for a Div 1 HC job is on this message board. How about we let at least 1 AD consider him ready for that position, before we anoint him as our next in line.
Yep. Definite homer mentality -- but if there were a place that'd give him a shot, we'd certainly be it.
Blue Man wrote:I feel like people don't understand how good it is for Dan's name to be out in high profile coaching searches.
It does not benefit to Dan, our program, or our recruiting efforts to immediately shut down rumors and stop the free national press from telling everyone how good our coach is and how worthy of a candidate he would be for a job.
Shaka, Archie, Gregg Marshall etc all had their names out there and it didn't hurt recruiting or anything. It provides the coach and athletic department an opportunity to get as much as they can from the budget for the program as possible.
If Dan comes out immediately and says..."hey! I'm never leaving I'm happy here!" Do you think Dooley says "OK great here's everything you need for your team...let me know if there's anything else buddy!"
That's not how this works. You need leverage in any negotiation and if Dan wants a bigger budget for charters, improvements, assistant coaching pools...he will need that leverage. You also need the public to believe the coach who finally brought this program from the dark ages could go at any moment to get any budget increases passed without a fight.
If you are a fan of a school that isn't a blue blood with a hall of famer on the sidelines and your coach isn't brought up for big coaching vacancies, your coach sucks.
Jim Baron never had this. Not even once. Jim Baron also never had a preseason ranking. Never had a ranked win. Never had a tournament birth. Never had a tournament win. He had 11 years.
Dan Hurley could get an 11 year extension right now and deserve it. You're blindly hating if you don't think so.
This can't be said enough. Hurley is smart and comes from a family background that not only knows the system -- they kinda helped construct it. He's playing the game. Hurley entertaining his options is doing nothing but expediting the process building our program. He's forcing the hand of the school administration to deliver on continued growth.
If Hurley left right now, the program would be in a better position than when he came here. The same could never be said of Jim Baron. He did quite the opposite... Took us from a prior decade that saw 4 NCAA appearances and two sweet 16s to a decade straight without a berth. After the way this season ended that comparison is officially preposterous.
That said, there's room for cautious optimism. Without that run at the end of the year who knows what "sky is falling" mentality would be running rampant here.