There have to be other young up and coming coaches at lower level schools that are good candidates to succeed besides Hurley. Ones that have upside. I'd rather take that chance than hire "safe choices" that are retreads like Crean or Martin. That would be the easy way out for Benedict. Benedict needs to take a chance and trust his judgment on someone. Ohio State, Arizona St., and others have done it recently. If Benedict takes some risk and makes a bad choice on a younger less experienced guy that doesn't work out then he wasn't as good at his job as he should be.