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Message: [QUOTE="ECU, post: 2705669, member: 8942"] FGCU is nice relative to the ASun but it still has 240ish ranked budget in a 30th-ish ranked conference. In his 4th year Dooley build a team with his own players good enough to have an 85 RPI. I don't think just an average coach exceeds his resources and conference situation that much. When he was at ECU as a 30 year old in the CAA with a fraction of the resources we have now he had a 17-10..#97 RPI team that beat at St Joe's team that went to the Sweet 16 and finished 12th in the AP Poll. One of the players who played in the NBA missed 5 games costing a better season. I think that's two pretty good examples of taking 2 low resource/ limited tradition schools to relative success. We have 120 type budget now in a top 7 conference, if he exceeds it similar to what he did at FGCU he should get us in the top 45 on NCAA bubble once every 5 years and have respectable mostly top 100 type teams you would think. He had terrible injury luck his last year here that gave the AD the excuse he wanted to fire him. Dooley also had future national POY David West committed at the time and everyone coming back. It's a shame he didn't get to recruit in old CUSA, but exciting we get the prime coaching version in the AAC with Chillious to help pull players. [/QUOTE]