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Message: [QUOTE="Orangutan, post: 3008727, member: 4946"] Tennessee is a very good job for sure, but I think Skins makes a good point with respect to the people who have unrealistic expectations of who Tennessee might be able to get. I know you don't fall into that bracket ,but we've both seen the people who are dreaming of Mulkey or Walz or whoever. Those people don't need Tennessee's rep to propel them to success. They have their own power 5 programs that they've put on the map themselves. Top assistants, mid-major coaches, and coaches at less-visible P5 schools (someone on some board mentioned Sue Semrau, which is not a bad idea, imo) should definitely be jumping at the chance to coach Tennessee if the job does become available. I definitely think ND could fall off if success isn't maintained by Muffet's successor. That's where I understand the impulse to hire someone who is close to the program. It might be easier to sell ND's history of success if you have a coach that was a big part of that success (like Ivey). UConn will have the tradition but I think their location and conference become a bigger factor in the absence of Geno. Now, UConn has the ability to pluck kids from Arkansas or California or Missouri. Are those same kids coming cross-country to play in the AAC for, hypothetically, Shea Ralph? New England is not a hotbed area for top wbb talent, at least not compared with the south or Texas or California. Tennessee can just mostly recruit within the south (and Oregon, I guess) and be fine. ND already does most of their recruiting out of the midwest and east coast where the ND brand is strongest. UConn doesn't currently work under such geographic limitations. I don't think UConn will fall off the map but it will get harder after Geno. [/QUOTE]

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