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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2636563, member: 1414"] I'm just going to throw out a theory for you, [USER=4150]@Uconnfanatic[/USER] and [USER=7016]@Kathy[/USER] and anybody else who is concerned that we're jumping in too quickly on Hurley. I am confident, that our AD started looking at candidates to replace Ollie after last year's dismal season. I am even more certain that discussions with informed people, probably including Jim Calhoun, about potentially available coaches, have been [U]ongoing for months[/U]. I suspect that we've talked to the agents for every reasonable name you've seen mentioned. I am positive that we've reviewed their history and have kicked their tires. That means Dave, and Beth and everybody in the AD reaching out to their contacts and getting behind the scenes impressions on these coaches. That has been going on for some time. I believe they had narrowed the list long before they made the firing of Ollie official. Anything less would be malpractice. So if people are proceeding on the basis that this all just started the day after our season ended, then you're proceeding on a faulty set of assumptions. They even officially hired a (pointless) search firm. You have to move very rapidly or you will lose your target in this market. That's why I guarantee you that they had spent a lot of time looking at candidates at least back to the fall, if not before that. I don't know if we will hire Hurley or not. But if we do, it wasn't because we didn't take a long look at others. [/QUOTE]

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