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[QUOTE="Pgh2Storrs, post: 3131073, member: 8306"]
[URL="https://theathletic.com/932570/2019/04/18/oneil-inept-coaching-searches-prove-that-ucla-st-johns-just-dont-get-it/"]O'Neil: Inept coaching searches prove that UCLA, St. John's...[/URL]

This is a really great article in The Athletic by Dana O’Neil but the one point that stuck out to me was her statement below on the value of coaches v. schools:

[I]“Coaches have gotten as wise to the game as the kids they recruit, well aware that they create the value of the job and not the other way around. Is Villanova a great job, or is Jay Wright a great coach? Was Texas Tech a Final Four waiting to happen, or did Chris Beard get the Red Raiders there? Was Chris Holtmann lucky to get a chance to coach Ohio State, or were the Buckeyes fortunate to entice him away from Butler? The answer to each is obvious.”[/I]

That’s dead on. Once you get past all the conference gnashing of teeth, it really all comes down to the coach. We’re incredibly fortunate that Benedict landed our guy.
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