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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4867797, member: 71"] Here's an easy way to determine if you like or hate Benedict: Are you happy with our current men's head basketball coach? How you answer that question should be applied to how you feel about Benedict. For the record, DB put his neck on the line and basically defied the board of trustees to hire Dan Hurley when he did because a) he knew if he didn't act, Hurley would land at Pitt and would be forever out of reach as a coach here and b) he believed Hurley was too good to miss out on and if we wanted to restore the program we needed him. The noise and embarrassment that followed with Ollie was entirely due to the board's refusal to dismiss Ollie under the terms of his contract and to boot, the board decided to punish the entire athletic department for a few years because they weren't happy that DB would not wait the year for KO's buyout to drop. [/QUOTE]