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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 3860901, member: 7492"] As I stated in my thread about Hiring at P5, elevating an Assistant does not have the success that one would think. Nikki McCray got the job at Old Dominion because she was a top P5 Assistant at SC. She was only at OD for 3 years so who knows how good a coach she was as she really only had 1 year of her players she recruited from the start of their Junior year in HS. While I disagree that MSU is a top 5 program, they are top 10ish at best. Let's get back to the reality that MSU made their meteoric rise with Teaira McCown to achieve 2 Final Fours. They still lag behind UConn, Stanford, SC, ND, Baylor, Louisville, Maryland from elite consistency across multiple classes to be considered top 5. I might put them in the next tier of Texas A&M, Ohio State, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas of programs with history and resources to garner elite prospects and contend. Oregon, Oregon State and UCLA are knocking on this door to prove they too can do it over multiple classes. So where should have MSU gone for a coach, first would have been a lesser P5 program whose coach has achieved success coaching against the big boys/gals. Someone like Raegan Pebley, Adia Barnes, Scott Rueck are 3 names who were/are not making elite money. Whether they would have come who knows. Karls Smesko at FCGU has a longer history of success then NMP across multiple classes of students. So does Lisa Fortier at Gonzaga. Heck, any of the South Dakota or SDSU programs also have excellent coaching acumen to coach up the better athletes at MSU and they are enthusiastic I do have agree that the odds could be 50/50 that MSU might miss the NCAAT which I never would have fathomed at the start of the year. Wow, just wow. [/QUOTE]

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