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Message: [QUOTE="The Viking, post: 4312044, member: 1599"] This will go down as ultimately you believe who you want to. Myself, Brass Bonanza, that Strauss kid who has inside BC sources. We all heard things from different people that we trust who say Cavanaugh was the #1 target. I heard it from someone with UConn ties, they heard it from people in BC or BU or around the league. The Strauss kid admitted he jumped the gun with his "voracity" that it was a done deal, but still said he believes both sides were very close to a deal at one point. Brass said the kid has big time contacts within BC. So I can't imagine he's making it up for fun. And for what it's worth, you can let someone know that they are a top candidate - perhaps THE candidate - during a face-to-face without making a formal offer. Hell it's the right thing to do if you aren't very certain that the candidate will say yes. Now its possible all of our sources are wrong just as it is possible that your BC players didn't have the clout in the hiring process that they thought they had. Lastly, I'm curious what it is your BC players are so turned off about with Cavanaugh where they would prefer Leaman over him. It wreaks of hypocricy in that they go on and on about how much BC blood means for the hire, and yet a guy who was a top assistant coach and recruiter at Chestnut Hill for 18 years and is coming off his own Hockey East championship is a non-starter? I get people who post on this site who can go hot and cold on a guy during the ups and downs of a season (I've been guilty), but that's in part being a fan. There are some worse than me who won't post here when Cavanaugh/UConn do well because they don't Cavanaugh to succeed. For BC players who don't follow the UConn program day in and day out - they dont have an ability to step back from a far and appreciate the totality of what he's done - especially recently - while recruiting kids with nothing more than a High School rink on campus and home games being played 40 minutes away? It seems odd. [/QUOTE]

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